Nicaraguan rebels plan clandestine AM radio broadcasts
An insurgent cadet says the Nicaraguan rebels will start clandestine AM radio broadcasts to Nicaragua to offer an alternate view. Ernesto Palazio notes no independent media exists since La Prensa was shut down. Radio Liberacion will join the Contras short wave efforts.
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Washington
Ernesto Palazio
United Nicaraguan Opposition
Nicaragua
la Prensa
Radio Liberacion
Waite Denounces Speculation Over Hostage Talks
Anglican envoy Terry Waite urged reporters at Heathrow not to speculate about hostage negotiations in Lebanon saying rumors could endanger his contacts and their efforts. In Wiesbaden David Jacobsen, 55, was declared healthy after 17 months in captivity and planned a quiet farewell with his children before returning home.
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London
Anglican Church
Terry Waite
Lebanon
Waite
David Jacobsen
Heathrow
Wiesbaden
West Germany
Air Force
Jeffery Mulcahy
U.S. Air Force
Jacobsen
Huntingdon Beach
Calif
Beech Nut Charged With Selling Ersatz Juice
Beech Nut Nutrition Corp and two officers face 470 counts of conspiracy mail fraud and FDA violations for selling sugar water as apple juice for babies to recoup 3.5 million spent on bogus concentrate. Indictments name President CEO Neils L Hoyvald and VP John F Lavery among others.
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NEW York
Beech-Nut
Beech-Nut Nutrition Corp
Neils L. Hoyvald
John F. Lavery
Forgotten Evidence Frees Man From Prison
Nathaniel Walker, 44, was freed after eight years of a life sentence for rape when a forgotten sperm sample in Elizabeth police storage, untested for 12 years, proved he could not be the donor. FBI testing showed the sample did not match Walker. Prosecutors overturned the conviction and he seeks to rebuild his life.
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Elizabeth
N.J
Nathaniel Walker
Trenton State Prison
Walker
FBI
Paul Casteleiro
Twin-engine plane collides with Pan Am jet in Tampa
A Piper twin engine aircraft struck Pan Am Flight 301 on a taxiway at Tampa International Airport in heavy fog, killing at least one person aboard the small plane while all 30 on the Boeing 727 survived. FAA official John Whiteside said the Pan Am jet was taxiing for takeoff when the collision occurred.
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Tampa
Fla
Pan American World Airways
John Whiteside
Federal Aviation Administration
Atlanta
Tampa International
South Carolina PSC approves $79 million rate rise for Duke Power
The South Carolina Public Service Commission granted Duke Power Co. a $79 million rate increase. A PSC spokesman said the average monthly bill for 1000 kilowatt hours will rise about $8, from $66.79 to $74.69. The increase was approved on Wednesday.
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Columbia
South Carolina Public Service Commission
Duke Power Co
PSC
Soviet Rocket Body Burns Up Over Western U S
A Soviet rocket body reentered and burned up over the western United States scattering bright debris and a smoke trail. NORAD and Air Force officials tracked the event saying it occurred around 9 11 p m local time with observers from Texas to Utah reporting a fireball lasting about 45 seconds.
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Texas
Utah
California
Air Force
San Bernardino County
Fred Wegner
Needles
Calif
Arizona
Nevada
Wegner
United States’ Space Command
Cheyenne Mountain
United States
Chuck Wood
North American Defense Command
Colorado Springs
Colo
NORAD
Astronauts Win Expanded Roles in Shuttle Management Readjustment
NASA names veteran commander Crippen as deputy director of the space shuttle program and elevates Arnold Aldrich to shuttle program director in Washington. The moves give astronauts greater authority and clearer lines of communication after the Challenger disaster. other astronauts Crippen, Ride, Hauck remain in high level roles.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
NASA
Robert Crippen
Space Agency
Arnold Aldrich
Aldrich
Johnson Space Center
Houston
Washington
Crippen
Truly
Sally Ride
America
Frederick Hauck
Lead levels in water threaten millions and cost lives
A government report finds more than 30 million Americans drink water with lead above safe levels. Cleaner standards could save up to 1 billion dollars, with costs of 100 to 140 million. Lead harms the nervous system, kidneys, and heart, especially in the young and in people in newer housing.
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Washington
Environmental Protection Agency
Hanford Designs Power Plants For Space Defense
Researchers at Hanford near Richland Washington work on compact reactors generating hundreds of kilowatts to hundreds of megawatts for Reagan Star Wars space defense programs. Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratory leads the Multimegawatt Reactor Project to power beam weapons and propulsion in space, with challenges from vacuum and weightlessness.
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Richland, Wash
Reagan
Hanford
Strategic Defense Initiative
Richard D. Widing
Battelle
Pacific Northwest Laboratory
Outer Space
Widing
Earth
U.S. China agree on defense deal for F eight fighters
The United States and China sign a letter of intent for a 500 million project to develop avionics and install fire control systems in 50 F eight fighters. Bids from U.S. companies due early next year, with work to run up to six years in Shenyang. Admiral Lyons says naval cooperation not aimed at Soviet strategy.
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Qingdao
EPA suggests cutting lead in drinking water to 20 ppb
Under amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act, proposed by June 1988, the EPA would drop the lead limit from 50 ppb to 20 ppb. A cost-benefit study by EPA policy analyst Ronnie Levin estimates, in 1985 dollars, the costs and benefits of the reduction for 1988.
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EPA
Congress
Ronnie Levin
Aiken Standard Classified and Contact Details
Aiken Standard offers subscription and classified ad lines with phone numbers 649-5316 649-1555 and idea tip line 648-2311. Offices at 124 Rutland Drive open 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. mailing address Box 456 Aiken South Carolina 29802.
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Aiken Standard
Rutland Drive
Aiken, S.C
Emergency numbers service note from Aiken Standard
The Aiken Standard provides emergency numbers as a service. The paper is published weekday afternoons and Sunday by Aiken Communications Inc, at P O Box 456 124 Rutland Drive Aiken SC 29802.
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Aiken Standard
Aiken Communications Inc
P.O
Rutland Drive
Aiken
S.C
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