Imelda Marcos travels to New York for racketeering trial
Imelda Marcos arrives at LaGuardia from Honolulu to attend a pretrial hearing in Manhattan with co-defendant Adnan Khashoggi. Jury selection for the racketeering case is slated to begin Tuesday, with prosecutors alleging embezzlement and fraud linked to Philippine treasury funds and banking losses.
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NW York
Imelda Marcos
Hawaii
U.S. District Court
Manhattan
Marcos
AIDS Study Contested by Federal Researchers
Two CDC and NCI researchers criticize a Journal of the American Medical Association AIDS study claiming cases will soon fall to a low endemic level before 2000. The USC researchers Bregman and Langmuir face editorials challenging their conclusion amid nationwide case totals at 121,645 with 72,580 deaths through January.
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Marcaes Une Axds Ie
United States
Journal of the
American Medical Association
Dennis Bregman
Alexander Langmuir
University of Southern California
Federal
Centers For Disease Control
National Cancer Institute
CDC
Valdez Skipper Declines To Testify
Anchorage Alaska Exxon Valdez skipper Joseon Hazelwood avoided prosecutors grilling by declining to testify in his criminal trial. Lawyers rested their case without him as prosecutors wrap up and plan final arguments after six weeks of testimony about the grounding on a charted reef in Prince William Sound. Judge Karl Johnstone questioned Hazelwood about his right to testify and he answered yes.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Exxon Valdez
Joseon Hazelwood
Witaen
Hs Ree Genation
Hazelwood
Prince William Sound
Superior Court
Karl Johnstone
Hazel- Hazelwood Wood
Drug Lord Indictment Revealed In U S Case
Federal officials unseal a 10 count indictment against Khun Sa the Burma opium warlord facing federal drug trafficking charges. The case cites the 1998 largest heroin seizure 4006 kilograms seized in Bangkok in February 1988 and a separate import attempt of over 3500 pounds of heroin into New York.
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Wadshingsun
Khun Sa
Burma
Bangkok
Thailand
New York
Aiken Standard Subscription Rates and Mailing Info
Subscription prices listed for Aiken Standard include 3 months 27.00 6 months 54.00 12 months 108.00 with all advance payments to be mailed to Aiken Standard PBM Subscription Mail Rates. End user address details show Aten Postmaster and SC mailing ranges with related postal routing information.
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Aiken Standard - Pbm
Aiton S.C
Aten
Anon
Abortion Battle Cools As Lawmakers Avoid It
Lawmakers across states have slowed abortion legislation after the Webster Supreme Court ruling. Of over 150 bills introduced, only one became law while many died in committees. Ohio Missouri New York Iowa see bills fail as elections loom.
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Supreme Court
Webster
Kate Michelman
National Abortion Rights Action League
Nancy Myers
National Right To Life Committee
Bower
Missouri
Ohio
Senate
Stanley Aronoff
New York
Towa
Jane Svoboda
Gorbachev Calms Lithuania Crisis After Inauguration
Gorbachev urged parliament to soften a resolution voiding Lithuania’s independence claim and held a Moscow news conference promising dialogue with Lithuania’s people and government. He asked deputies to curb confrontational rhetoric and protect Soviet rights while seeking resolution, declining to impose presidential rule.
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Moscow
Mikhail S. Gorbachev
Lithuania
Soviet Union
Gorbachev
President Bush flags worrisome economic signs
President Bush told newspaper executives and the National Association of Manufacturers that while the economy remains generally optimistic, deficits hinder aid to Eastern Europe and Central America. He cited a sluggish 0.9 percent GNP growth in late 1989 and warned against a Pollyanna view, urging tax and education reforms to sustain expansion.
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Washington
Bush
U.S
Europe
Central America
National Newspaper Association
America
National Association of Manufacturers
Engineers Plan Bet to Boost Failing 150 Million Sat Into Higher Orbit
A $150 million communications satellite, stranded under 190 miles, faces doom in nine days unless engineers can raise it. Intelsat and U S Space Command officials weigh options including a shuttle rescue as the ship may descend to burn up by March 25.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Earth
Army
Thomas Niemann
U.S. Space Command
Colorado
Niemann
Intelsat
Tony Trujillo
U.S
Loss of Amazon Rain Forest Would Change Regional Climate
Washington report summarizes a computer model by Jagadish Shukla of the University of Maryland. It warns deforestation could cut Amazon rainfall by about 25 inches annually and raise regional temperatures, altering Atlantic moisture and potentially global weather patterns.
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Amazon Rain Forest
Washington
Amazon River
South America
Jagadish Shukla
University of Maryland
Shukla
Amazon Basin
Amazon
Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic
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