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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1996
Page
2
Augusta natives report James Brown celebrated his 63rd birthday with Slash the guitarist, the Sawyer Brown country group, and NFL players including Ricky Watters. Brown performed center stage and declared feeling good about it as the eclectic lineup joined him for the bash.
President Clinton appears in the CBS made for TV movie A Child's Wish to promote the family leave law. The film portrays an emotional and financial crisis in a family after a child contracts terminal cancer and the father loses his job to care for her.
Former Algerian interior minister Mohamed Hardi was killed Saturday in Oued Smar a suburb of Algiers a stronghold of the Armed Islamic Group Security forces reported the assassination marking the second such killing in nine months in the North African nation amid ongoing insurgency.
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President Clinton urged states to keep teen mothers in their homes and in school while pursuing jobs. He announced a four step plan to end welfare dependence and pressed Congress to pass tough work oriented reform with childcare funds. Republicans criticized the proposals as federal overreach and enabling welfare.
In Monrovia Liberia rebels including teenagers with machine guns battled city streets after the evacuation of warlord Roosevelt Johnson to Ghana for peace talks. US Marines airlifted Johnson as rival Charles Taylor refused to join the talks, leading to renewed heavy shelling of Johnson’s captured military barracks and two main bridges.
Hungarians employed by Brown and Root in Bosnia say American civilian staff harass and exploit them. Complaints focus on body searches and wage cuts, with a union formed to press officials at International American Products Ltd. U.S. Embassy in Budapest being informed. A managing director downplays claims while workers cite specific incidents and offers.
Research suggests tobacco sugars form a molecular glue that hardens arteries, linking smoking to diabetes like heart disease. Doctor Anthony Cerami says diabetics and young smokers show glucose reactions that promote arterial stiffening and clots, potentially increasing heart attack risk.
A US soldier, Hector Rodrigues, 28, of Joliet Illinois, wounded himself in the abdomen in Tuzla Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was evacuated to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. Officials said he remained in critical but stable condition. Details on the incident and weapon were withheld.
A private Federal Airlines Antonov 24 crashed during an attempted emergency landing in a sandstorm outside Khartoum, killing all 53 on board. Among the dead were 26 Bahr el-Ghazal University students. The flight, from Wau via el-Obeid, struck an empty house in a cleared field.
A 1955 declassified memo cites Yuri Rastvorov, a Soviet defector, telling Eisenhower officials that U.S. and other UN prisoners of war were held in Siberia for intelligence work during the 1950 53 Korean War. Moscow denies abductions and full answers remain sought.
Sen. Bill Bradley accepted the Harry S. Truman Award For Public Service on Truman’s birthday celebration steps at the Truman Library in Independence Missouri. Bradley, born in Crystal City, praised Truman’s egalitarian view that a person should be judged by merit, not possessions or social position, and noted no American should be expendable. He recalled his basketball career at Princeton and with the New York Knicks.
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