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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1996
Page
2
Detroit AP reports Jay Leno will lead a 2000-car parade celebrating the auto industry's 100th anniversary. The Tonight Show host, a longtime car and motorcycle collector, will also perform at the American Automobile Centennial dinner the night before the parade.
AP reports Garth Brooks has sold about 60 million albums, surpassing Billy Joel to become the best selling solo musician. He nears the Beatles 71 million mark for the top overall group. Brooks has nine albums, latest Fresh Horses (1995), with hits like Friends in Low Places and The Change honoring Oklahoma City bombing victims.
Los Angeles AP report states Tupac Shakur settled a lawsuit with David Deleon, a limousine driver who said he was beaten by Shakur and entourage after a Fox TV Studios parking lot incident following a guest appearance on In Living Color. Deleon claimed the confrontation arose over drug use, with Shakur admitting marijuana use and alleging the driver reached for a trunk weapon.
HOME DELIVERY monthly eight ninety five. COUNTY MAIL thirteen twenty per month. OTHER MAIL seventeen forty five monthly. Advance payments may be made to Aiken Standard PEM Subscription. The Aiken Standard established in 1867 published weekday afternoons and Saturday and Sunday mornings by Aiken Communications Inc. P.O. Box 456 Aiken SC 29802. Postmaster address changes to P.O. Box 456 Aiken SC 29802.
Israel counted military ballots likely to decide a tight race between incumbent Shimon Peres and challenger Benjamin Netanyahu. With 99.9 percent tallied, Netanyahu led Peres 1,416,280 to 1,394,881, amid absentee soldier ballots and West Bank settlers backing Netanyahu.
Wendy Guey, a 12-year-old from Florida, wins the 1996 Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee on her fourth attempt, earning a loving cup and $5,000 after correctly spelling viviseculture. Eleven-year-old Jimmy McCarthy, a profoundly deaf finalist from Land O Lakes, Fla., misspelled ululant and reflects on defeat after a long day.
LOMA LINDA Calif Cheers erupted as a surgical team of 24 separated month old twins Shawna and Janelle Roderick who were born facing each other and shared liver tissue. Surgeon Dr Gibbs Andrews led the effort at Loma Linda University Medical Center. The twins entered the operating room at 7 am and were placed in separate beds by 2 30 pm.
Protestants and Catholics await a mandate as Northern Ireland holds a special election. The vote will determine which politicians gain influence post cease-fire and ahead of June peace talks, with parties seeking to shape the province’s path toward settlement.
Lauer comments say a Northern Ireland forum will be shaped by February election results after the IRA London bombing ends the cease-fire. Sinn Fein negotiations hinge on Ulster Unionists and Protestant parties backing talks, with 110 seats and 18 districts voting five delegates each. The top ten parties gain two extra spots, amid a deadline for a new cease-fire and peace process resumption.
The FBI brings in religion expert Philip Arnold from the Reunion Institute to negotiate with the Freemen near Jordan Montana amid a two month stand off. He follows criticism of prior Waco and Ruby Ridge handling as negotiators seek to avoid a forceful shutdown. Arnold may converse with Freemen if useful, with bureau officials citing religious references in the talks and past consultations with scholars.
Israeli warplanes hit a Hezbollah arms depot near Baalbek in east Lebanon hours after a bomb ambush killed four Israeli soldiers. Five bombers struck before dawn, the town woke to explosions. No immediate casualties reported as Hezbollah cordons off the area six miles from the Syrian border. The attack followed Thursday’s bombing in south Lebanon. Syria keeps 40,000 troops in Lebanon and tolerates Hezbollah activity to influence peace talks.
The cockpit voice recorder for ValuJet Flight 592 shows an unidentified sound about 5 minutes 47 seconds into the May 11 flight prompting a request to return to Miami. Cabin voices report fire seconds later, but analysis continues and exact conversations are not released.
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