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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1983
Page
2
A Salvadoran appeals court judge ruled there is insufficient evidence to order a trial for four National Guardsmen charged in the slaying of four U S churchwomen. The case returns to a lower court where further evidence must be gathered, potentially taking months.
The Senate faces a long list of amendments to a 165 billion dollar Social Security rescue package. Debate resumes today after preliminary work begun Wednesday. Proposals include raising retirement age from 65 to 68 and disability retirement benefits for workers aged 62 or older who cannot work but don’t meet standard disability rules.
In Washington, Senate leaders plan another attempt to rescue a 5.1 billion jobs program but face growing resistance from backers of a repeal amendment to withhold tax on interest and dividends. Senator Bob Kasten pledges to continue the fight, even risking attachment to the Social Security bail-out bill.
New York AP reports Arthur Godfrey, famed radio and TV personality known as the Old Redhead and Huck Finn of radio, died at age 79 after 13 days hospitalized for emphysema and pneumonia. Cremation planned with no public service. Julius LaRosa recalls Godfrey and his firing on air in 1953.
Robert J. Flynn Jr. files suit in Washington against Senator Strom Thurmond claiming a conspiracy to suppress a witness William W. Pearce who testified he saw Thurmond take bribe payments totaling twenty thousand dollars. Columnist Jack Anderson linked Pearce to the grand jury testimony.
General Barrow quotes Knight Ridder dispatch alleging Israeli troops threaten and insult U S Marines in Lebanon. He cites life threatening verbal degradation and incidents this year including threats to kill a captain. Reagan seeks withdrawal of Israeli Syrian and Palestinian forces as diplomacy continues.
Washington AP Republicans blocked a final vote on a nuclear weapons freeze after 12 hours of floor debate. Supporters claim passage is inevitable, while Democrats say GOP tactics postponed the vote despite leadership expectations for quick action on a mutual verifiable freeze and reductions.
The White House moves quickly to select a permanent EPA head after acting chief John W. Hernandez Jr faced controversy over a 1981 dioxin report. A Reagan official says six candidates remain, including Ruckelshaus and Buckley, with others considered and Quarles ruled out.
The South Carolina House tentatively approves two tax collection bills and finalizes two deficit-filling measures to cover a projected 59.5 million shortfall in a 62.8 million package. Arcades and coin-op licenses would raise 3.5 million, and Patriots Point loan payment frees 1.9 million.
Oscar winner Richard Dreyfuss will wed television producer Jeremie Rain in a Jewish ceremony at his agent Meyer Mishkin’s home in Los Angeles this Sunday. Dreyfuss, 34, enters a two year drug diversion program after a cocaine possession case following an October car crash.
Former astronaut Gerald Carr named project manager for a 300 inch telescope planned for McDonald Observatory Texas. University officials say it will take five years to grind form and polish and Carr will oversee development and construction.
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