Body Of 6th Victim Found In Trade Center Rubble
The body of 37 year old Wilfredo Mercado, a hotel purchasing agent, was recovered from the World Trade Center rubble on Monday, raising the death toll to six. Mercado, a Peruvian immigrant, supported his wife Olga and two children Yvette and Heidy, and led six staff in the storeroom and receiving deck for Windows on the World.
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Trade Center Rubble
New York
World Trade Center
Wilfredo Mercado
Port Authority
Trade Center
Mercado
Olga
United
States
Enoe
Yvette
Heidy
Worl
Israel Campos
Brooklyn
Ba Ridge
The
Daily News
Meir Kahane
Early S C Crops Hurt From Weekend Winds
Winds up to 70 mph damaged crops across South Carolina with peach losses in Allen dale County estimated at about 10 percent of early varieties. Farmers faced freezing temps and power outages as utility crews restored service to 159,000 customers statewide. Duke Power reported about 8,000 customers without power in Greenville-Spartanburg area late Monday night.
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Allendale
Barney Chappell
Chappell
Patare
Duke Power Co
Greenville-Spartanburg
Base Talks Open With Bad News
An independent panel opens hearings on base closures with Defense Secretary Aspin warning of more shutdowns to come. The plan would close 31 major installations and realign 134 others as part of a Bush era defense budget. The process faces 1995 action and potential economic impacts on communities and workers.
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Defense
Les Aspin
Aspin
Pentagon
Jim Courter
New Jersey
Clinton
Congress
Conress
America
Army
John W. Shannon
Courter
Adm
Frank B. Kelso
Navy
California
Charleston Naval Shipyard
South Carolina
Colin Powell
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Kelso
Staten Island Naval Station
New York
Air Force
Michael Donley
Homestead Air Force Base
Florida
McClellan Air Force Base
Sacramento
Presidio of
Monterey
Aiken Hunt Meet Returns With Frosty Start to Chilly Thriller
Trials set for Wednesday but Aiken Hunt Meet runs Saturday with frosty conditions and a large crowd. Last year 20 000 attended as Strong Buck and Parade March fell at the 12th fence, riders Joseph Walsh and Keith O Brien treated at regional centers. Winners included Biscottini and Polar Parallel plus other horses and trophies. SERTOMA donations supported Hitchcock Rehabilitation Center and Helping Hands Inc. Attendance prospects and weather questions fuel the lead up to this year’s event.
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Strong Buck
Parade March
Joseph Walsh
Keith O’brien
Helping Hands, Inc
Aiken Hunt
South Carolina Officials Fight Navy Base Closures
Gov. Carroll Campbell leads a state effort to contest Navy base shutdowns with data and expert consultants. He argues Portsmouth yard lacks Charleston’s productivity while lawmakers and Ravenel press to keep Charleston facilities open and to remove some bases from the list. A panel will select from consulting firms including Jordan Cayne Savitz Lopata and Peat Marwick to press South Carolina's case.
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Columbia
Carroll Campbell
South Carolina
Navy
Defense
Les Aspin
Bill Clinton
Campbell
Portsmouth
N.H
Charleston
Naval Yard
U.S
Arthur Ravenel
Peat Marwick
DRI
McGraw Hill
Arthur D. Little
SCRA
Resource Consultants Inc
William L. Dickinson Group
International Planning and Analysis Center
Housing Starts Rebound After February Slump
U S government data show housing starts rose 2.5 percent in February to 1.21 million at an annual rate after January’s 8.4 percent drop. Construction climbed in most regions except the South, with economists forecasting about 1.23 million. The January revision also widened the prior drop from 7.2 to 8.4 percent, the lowest level since last July.
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Washington
South
Commerce Department
Defense Takes Over In Taped Beating Trial
The defense for four officers in the Rodney King beating case opened arguing King provoked the incident and that Wind acted under orders. Wind’s defense says he followed training officers Powell and Koon. Prosecutors rested after 35 witnesses as King testified denying provocation and PCP use.
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Los Angeles
Rodney King
Paul DePasquale
Timothy Wind
King
Tim Wind
DePasquale
Wind
Laurence Powell
Stacey Koon
Theodore Briseno
U.S
John Davies
John Amnott
Patrick Conway
Koon
Rescuers Aid Isolated Kentucky Families In Snowbound Pike County
Firefighters spent five hours to cover ten miles in a Pike County rescue delivering kerosene and coal to a woman in labor as twenty inches of snow trapped residents. National Guard helicopters airlifted about sixty campers in the Great Smokies with dozens more stranded. Connecticut teachers and six boys in Virginia were found safe after a camping trip amid the storm.
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Pike County
Michigan
Great Smokies
National Guard
Virginia
Two Connect
Icut
National Forest
Paul Holt
Tennessee National Guard
Chris Heffron
Charleston, S.C
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