Arafat Aide Shot in Sidon Lebanon Ambush
Issam Salem PLO senior official in Lebanon was shot in Sidon as gunmen fired on his car at 1 05 pm He was taken to Hammond Hospital with a head wound and reportedly death seemed likely The attack follows an attempted assassination of Zeid Wehbi Fatah spokesman in Sidon on Saturday with two passers by wounded.
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Sidon
Lebanon
Issam Salem
PLO
Paris
Palestine Liberation Organization
Yasser Arafat
Salem
Beirut
Fakhreddin Street
Hammond
Zeid Wehbi
Arafat
Fatah
Denver Abolishes Living-In-Sin Law
Denver City Council voted 7-6 to abolish a long contested living-in-sin ordinance. The law had restricted unrelated people from cohabiting in many zoning districts and forced some to carry marriage certificates. Council members Cathy Reynolds and Mary DeGroot praised ending zoning based on relationships.
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Denver
Cathy Reynolds
Mary DeGroot
Clear Skies and Cooler Weather Forecast Tonight
Forecast calls for clear skies and cooler temps with a low in the mid 40s. Wednesday brings mostly sunny skies and a high in the upper 70s. Details on Page 6A.
Deaths of several individuals listed for Page 6A
Obituary notice lists Clifford W. Blount Augusta James D. Carter Rockwell North Carolina Pernell E. Gary North Augusta Edward M. Mobley Edgefield Archie L. Wallace Jr. Sumter Lewis Williams Jr. Dinwiddie Virginia. Details appear on Page 6A.
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Clifford W. Blount
Augusta
James D. Carter
Rockwell
N.C
Pernell
E. Gary
North Augusta
Edward M. Mobley
Edgefield
Archie L. Wallace Jr
Sumter
Lewis Williams Jr
Dinwiddie
Children Survive Tumbling Ride In Tornado
Clarence Williams and Andre Reed, 11 and 8, survived a tornado that lifted a mobile home, spun it in the air and exploded. Derrick Moody, who witnessed from next door, said the boys crawled from the debris and sought shelter nearby before being treated at Barnwell hospital.
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Williston
Clarence
Duke) Williams
Andre Reed
America
Derrick Moody
Moody
Barnwell Hospital
Tornado Strikes New Ellenton Spares Injury at School
Tornado tore roofs off the kitchen dining hall band room and four classrooms at New Ellenton Middle School but left occupants unhurt. A second tornado hit Williston 20 miles away injuring about nine people. Survivors credited a miracle as a mobile home was lifted and scattered, while others sheltered inside.
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New Ellenton
Aiken County
New Ellenton Middle School
Williston
Shuttle fixes fuel leak to resume Venus mission countdown
Atlantis crew fix hydrogen pump fault and fuel line leak delaying launch. Five astronauts David Walker Ron Grabe Mary Cleave Mark Lee Norman Thagard will propel the Magellan probe to map Venus while scientists monitor its health in Atlantis cargo bay. Launch set for Thursday afternoon with a 64 minute window.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Atlantis
Space
Venus
NASA
Houston
David Walker
Ron Grabe
Mary Cleave
Mark Lee
Norman Thagard
Lee
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
South Carolina Faces 56 Million Tax Hikes Plan
Senate Finance Committee advances a 3.3 billion budget with 56 million in new taxes to fund state programs including mental health and corrections. Funds for two supercomputers at USC and Clemson face questions over impact on smaller colleges and faculty salaries. The plan relies on higher gas taxes long distance charges and wine and liquor taxes to raise revenue.
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Columbia
James Waddell
Senate Finance Committee
Waddell
House
Department of Mental Health
Department of Mental Retardation
Department of
Senate
Senate Committee
Carroll Campbell
John Lindsay
D-Bennettsville
D-Beaufort
Fred Sheheen
Sheheen
Lindsay
AIDS Crisis Boosts Sex Education but Narrows Topics
A nationwide survey by the Alan Guttmacher Institute finds the AIDS crisis increasing sex education support in 40 states yet crowding other topics like pregnancy prevention out of curricula. The $323,000 study, funded mainly by Carnegie Corporation, examines grades 7-12 policies and methods.
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New York
Alan Guttmacher Institute
America
Carnegie Corp
Emily Planning Perspectives
Guttmacher
Aiken Board Sets 1990 AIDS Curriculum Choices
Aiken County CHE Advisory Committee selected AIDS education materials for 1990 teaching. For high schools the two videos are A Letter for Bryan and AIDS Questions and Answers from the American Red Cross. Middle school picks include What Everyone Needs To Know and Live and Learn from Teen-Aid.
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Aiken County
Bryan
American Red Cross
Churchill Films
Teen-Aid
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Mary Ines
The
Associated Press
S.C
Aiken Schools
Denise Stubbs
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