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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1986
Page
2
In a wave of attacks, a Philippine town mayor and 15 others were killed as government attempts to resume peace talks with rebels faltered. Police and officials reported the violence across multiple provinces, prompting renewed security concerns.
President Reagan picks Dorcas R. Hardy, 39, to lead Social Security after a long vacancy. Hardy, a former California health official under Reagan, has served as assistant secretary at Health and Human Services since 1981. Also in brief, a Soviet sailor granted asylum in the United States after entering Japanese waters last month is expected to depart for the U S soon.
Rudy Vallee 85 is listed in fair condition after throat surgery at Cedars Sinai Medical Center. Hospital spokesman says he may move to a private room soon and wife Eleanor requests no further details. Army Archerd notes Vallee’s career began in Prohibition era with hits like Vagabond Lover.
In Pittsburgh a coroner keeps a youth’s body in the morgue for two years after a woman named as his mother refuses to identify it. Officials say the remains match Michael Fingal, who vanished in January 1979 at age 16, but Virginia Fingal maintains it is not her son.
A Soviet fifth grader, Katya Lycheva, begins a two week U.S. peace tour visiting Chicago New York Washington Houston and Los Angeles. She will see the Statue of Liberty Disneyland and a Texas barbecue, meals at McDonald’s, and meets with Americans as part of a gesture echoing Samantha Smith’s 1983 visit.
CAPE CANAVERAL Florida AP rocket experts prepared to inspect a 5 foot chunk of Challenger booster debris pulled from 650 feet down. If from the right booster it could bear the joint failure blamed for the explosion that killed seven astronauts 73 seconds after liftoff on January 2. Investigators and engineers will test O ring seals and analyze signs of heat or damage while independent teams at Wasatch and Thiokol run sub scale tests to simulate booster conditions.
London reports spread of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson engagement across tabloids and broadcasts. The Financial Times charts a royal weddings index and share moves, while Guardian jokes about the Windsor and Sloane link. A village inn owner creates Fergie’s fizz champagne to mark the news.
Tony Cimo, a Murrells Inlet brick mason, was granted parole after serving under three years of an eight year sentence for conspiring to kill Rudolph Tyner, the death row inmate who murdered his parents Myrtie and Bill Moon. The plan, carried out in 1982, involved an electronically detonated bomb that maimed Tyner as he watched TV in his cell.
The Senate removed the life without parole for murder from the omnibus crime bill and sent it back to the House. Prisoners may earn college credit toward sentences, but the Department of Corrections cannot fund inmate education. House Senate differences remain to be resolved in a conference committee. Citizens Against Violent Crime leader Ray Rossi criticizes the change while noting support for firearms and knife penalties and no parole for third-time offenders.
Aiken Standard provides phone lines for subscriptions and classifieds 649-5316 649-1555. Editorial and display ideas accepted at 648-2311. Business hours 5:30 to 7 p m weekdays and 8 to 10 20 a m Sundays. Office address 124 Rutland Drive Aiken SC 29802.
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