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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1990
Page
2
On this day in 1932 Amelia Earhart departed from Newfoundland bound for Ireland to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, marking a historic milestone in aeronautical achievement.
In Hyderabad Pakistan militants set fire to about a dozen shops and shot two people dead on Saturday. Police said the toll from a week of clashes between MQM supporters and Sindhi nationalists has risen to 21. Paramilitary troops and riot police patrolled the city as factions demand greater autonomy or recognition as a fifth nationality.
Nelson Mandela on a North African tour thanked Muammar Gadhafi for Libyan support during a meeting in Tripoli. Mandela and his wife Winnie received a 21 gun salute, and he praised Gadhafi for backing the anti apartheid struggle. Gadhafi lauded Mandela’s courage and the South African people’s steadfastness.
Lynch’s Wild at Heart received warm applause at Cannes amid a controversial shift of violence and explicit sex. The film stars Nicolas Cage as Sailor Ripley and Laura Dern as Lula Fortune, with Diane Ladd as Sailor’s mother in a story drawn from Barry Gifford’s novel. It competed for the Golden Palm, the last of three American entries, and was described by Cannes as an Eagle Scout from Missoula, Montana.
A senior U.S. official said Baker did not press Lithuania’s prime minister to suspend the March 11 declaration. The official quoted Baker as telling Kazimiera Prunskiene in Moscow that the Bush administration supported Lithuania’s independence and would back whatever decision Lithuanians chose. Gorbachev had demanded retracting the declaration to enable talks.
The Aiken Standard, establishing 1867, is published weekdays and Saturdays and Sundays mornings by Aiken Communicators Inc. Address updates list P.O. Box 686 in Akan SC with postal route changes noted for the publication.
Defense Secretary Cheney joins NATO defense ministers in Brussels to assess the reduced Soviet threat and shape the alliance's future. They will review conventional forces cuts and aircraft limits as Vienna talks slow, with potential year-end agreement.
A New York federal center said he would discuss civil rights charges against Keith Mondello, the white youth acquitted of murder in Yusuf Hawkins death. US Attorney Andrew Maloney and DA Charles Hynes would consider statements by a witness who testified Hawkins was killed during a mob attack in Bensonhurst.
Prime Minister Kazimiera Prunskiene urged Lithuania's lawmakers not to suspend the March 11 declaration of independence despite Soviet demands. Gorbachev favors suspension, while Prunskiene pressed for maintaining independence as about 10,000 protesters rallied outside Vilnius Parliament. She met Gorbachev in Moscow and Baker in Washington to push for compromise.
Flood swollen rivers across Texas and Louisiana flood thousands of acres toward the Gulf of Mexico. President Bush surveys the destruction during a weekend Texas visit as rainfall and storms cause widespread losses and evacuations across multiple states.
USGS geologist Bruce Bohor and Harvard geophysicist Russell Seitz propose a Caribbean impact near western Cuba as the dinosaur killer. They seek diplomatic approval to visit Cuba to confirm a crater rim and central uplift at Isle of Pines, amid broader debate on asteroid versus climate causes.
Christians from around the world gathered in Oberammergau for a revised Passion Play that omits anti Semitic depictions and portrays Jesus and apostles in traditional Jewish dress. The audience debated whether the changes fully address concerns as the final dress rehearsal neared the Sunday premiere.
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