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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 2000
Page
8
New Orleans officials estimate up to 1.5 million people may have attended Mardi Gras as mounted police cleared the French Quarter and crews cleaned streets. The city logged mainly minor arrests as Fat Tuesday marked the Lent start. Widespread trash remained ankle-deep while officials planned to weigh it for a crowd-size gauge.
The FBI and state and local authorities search for Jessica Rodriguez a 10 year old girl kidnapped from her driveway as her sisters 8 and 4 watched. Investigators believe the abduction may have been planned and the home is near Blue Springs northwest of Gainesville in Gilchrist County.
China today carried out the execution of Hu Changqing, former deputy governor of Jiangxi, after the Supreme People’s Court upheld his death sentence. Hu was convicted of taking bribes totaling 658000 dollars and illicit property around 195000 dollars.
A Tokyo rush hour commuter train derailed near Nakameguro station causing collision with an oncoming train carrying 1,300 passengers. Three people died and more than 30 were injured as seats were ripped away and glass shattered. A 21 year old commuter described the panicked scene.
Italian actress Claudia Cardinale has been named UNESCO goodwill ambassador by Director General Koichiro Matsuura. She is praised for fighting poverty intolerance and human rights violations. Previous ambassadors include Yehudi Menuhin Pele and Catherine Deneuve.
Asian stocks opened sharply lower as Procter & Gamble warned for the third quarter, triggering a Dow tumble and impacting high tech shares. By day end, Japan's Nikkei slipped 0.89 percent to 19 766.80 while Nasdaq closed down 97.01 points amid ongoing U.S. rate-rise concerns.
In Ramallah Barak and Arafat, after resolving key differences face to face, plan another summit to restart peace talks. A senior Palestinian official expects a Washington restart next week with negotiators aiming for a final treaty and solving interim accord disputes. Levy suggested talks could move to the US, though location is not critical.
In Albany a man finds a plastic cork in a bottle, sparking debate over synthetic versus natural corks. Proponents praise the nonbreakable stopper while critics miss tradition, claiming plastic changes the wine opening ritual and perceived quality. Industry data cite billions of corks produced yearly from oak sources.
Two Democratic lawmakers who are ministers Ralph Canty and Darlrell Jackson campaign to block Gov Hodges education lottery citing harm to poor Black citizens. They warn the lottery preys on minorities and plan to recruit others from inside and outside the Legislature for their Dont Gamble on Education program.
In Columbia, Surgeon General David Satcher urged elimination of racial health disparities while standing beneath the Confederate flag in the South Carolina House chamber. He noted higher prostate cancer risk for black men and greater breast cancer mortality for black women, linking disparities to access, poverty, and education. Governor Hodges highlighted tobacco settlement spending while opposing House Republicans on finances.
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