Comptroller accuses Highway Dept of financial independence
Columbia reports state Highway Department retains sole control over spending and bypasses the comptroller general's oversight. The agency seeks a trust fund structure, provoking criticism of reduced accountability. Budget talks consider $66 million in unused road funds.
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State Highway Department
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Comptroller
Earle Morris
House
Highway Department
Morris
36 Polling Sites Face Split Vote in Aiken County
Aiken County faces a split vote in November with 36 of 80 precincts showing split balloting on unsettled district alignments for county council and school board. Voters will decide across offices from U S senator to school board, with several precincts voting on three offices. The county offices to be voted in every precinct include senator sheriff treasurer probate judge and coroner among others.
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Aiken County Registration and Elections Office
Aiken County Council
Aiken County School Board
Justice Department
Aiken No
Graniteville
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North Augusta
Redd
Congress
U.S. Congress
USS. Senate
U.S
Shieff
Aiken
Senate
Congressional
Weather notice names several residents across counties
Weather notice lists Mrs Beulah C Bushee of Aiken Mrs Brunelle T Vance of Johnson Mrs Theola N Williams of Williston Mrs Kathryn Hebert of Marietta and Walter R Metz of North Augusta. See Page 8A for details.
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Beulah C. Bushee
Aiken
Brunelle T. Vance
Johnson
Theola N. Williams
Williston
Kathryn Hebert
Marietta
Walter R. Metz
North Augusta
Koon memoir draft sparks outcry from minority leaders in L A
Los Angeles police sergeant Stacey Koon seeks a publisher for The Ides of March memoir detailing a Rodney King incident with racial slurs and jokes about using force. Minority leaders denounce the manuscript as contemptuous while legal actions against Koon and fellow officers continue amid federal charges and suspensions.
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Los Angeles
Rodney King
Stacey Koon
Los Angeles Times
Joe Hicks
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Koon
Julius Caesar
Laurence Powell
LAPD
Lower
California
Shuttle Endeavour Lands at Edwards After Satellite Rescue
Endeavour touched down at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert at 1 57 p m PDT after a mission that saw three astronauts recover a massive satellite by hand. Commander Daniel Brandenstein deployed a red white and blue drag chute as about 125000 spectators watched the return. NASA called it a spectacular historic landing at the $2 billion shuttle base with Mission Control praising the crew.
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Mojave Desert
NASA
Endeavour
Perot Petition March Planned By Supporters
Supporters of Ross Perot plan a June 3 march on the South Carolina Statehouse to present petitions for an independent presidential bid. Joy Pruett notes committee permits, 46 county boxes, and a strong statewide effort including a May 23 Super Saturday push to boost signatures past the 50,000 goal.
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Columbia
Ross Perot
Statehouse
Texas Illionaire
South Carolina
Joy Pruett
Tommy Greene
Perot
Midlands
Austin
Texas
State Election Commission
Greene
Perot Committee
Poll Puts Perot At Top In National Survey
Washington AP Poll for Time and CNN finds billionaire Ross Perot leading Bush and Clinton among 917 registered voters surveyed May 13 14 with 33 percent support. In a two way race Bush 38 Clinton 35.
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Washington
Ross Perot
Bush
Bill Clinton
Time
Cable News Network
Perot
Buah
Clinton
Yankelovich
Clancy Shulman
White House
Arkansas
Income From Barnwell Disposal Site Falls Short of Projections
Columbia officials report lower than expected fees from the Barnwell nuclear waste dump. Six months into the year only seven and a half million dollars has been collected, well under the projected seventeen point five million. Officials warn the shortfall could influence whether to extend the dump’s operation past year’s end.
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Barnwell
South Carolina
House Ways and
Billy Bean
D-Kershaw
North Carolina
Chem-Nuclear
Will McCain
Col
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