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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1993
Page
2
A doll factory blaze on the outskirts of town killed at least 160 people, mostly women, with 400+ others drifting to safety or awaiting extraction as authorities warned the death toll could rise. Police reported 180 deaths, while a government committee probes the fire’s cause amid ongoing salvage.
The EPA reports more than 800 drinking water systems nationwide fail to protect tap water from excess lead based on monitoring between July and December. 819 systems serving 30 million people exceeded 5 ppb, with 1,100 more not completing required monitoring and facing enforcement. The worst large-system case was Charleston with 165 ppb. Columbia had 114 ppb. Goose Creek topped medium systems at 257 ppb, Camp Lejeune at 484 ppb, and Grosse Pointe Park at 324 ppb. Exposure risks include effects on children’s development and birth outcomes.
In Brussels EU foreign ministers urged Washington to send ground troops to shield safe havens like Zepa amid clashes with Bosnian Serbs. Clinton opposed US ground forces without a peace law, while Europe proposed border monitors to enforce a blockade and press Milosevic to back the UN plan.
The dialogue highlights growing Serbian support for peace while Europe debates armed options. EC ministers consider a low level of US troops to back air strikes, with Russia possibly deploying forces to monitor six UN declared safe areas. UN troops demilitarize Srebrenica and Zepa amid heavy shelling as Canadians report progress in Srebrenica.
The record notes monitoring of lead in public water systems between July and December 1982 at two Charleston and Columbia sites. It lists Charleston City of 165 and Columbia City of 114 as reference counts within the public water system monitoring program.
Sailors aboard the USS Kennedy and a Montpelier submarine oppose lifting the ban on homosexuals. They cite cramped, private-starved conditions and morals as reasons to keep the policy, as Senate Armed Services Committee hears testimony at Norfolk Base.
Candice Bergen says the Dan Quayle furor will be a significant political episode in U S history though she questions the word significant. She comments in Los Angeles that the moment sparked hallucinatory talk about motherhood and culture from Hollywood.
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