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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1997
Page
2
Two separate ambushes in Colombia left at least 28 police soldiers and prosecutors dead. One attack near Alto de Bodega south of Bogota killed 17 officers and wounded four. some victims were burned or shot at close range. A Friday convoy ambush southeast of Bogota killed 11, including several soldiers, with two others killed.
About 500 demonstrators led by grandmothers and a bag piper marched to the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station gate to protest NASA's Cassini mission. Eighteen scaled the fence and 27 were charged with trespassing as police quelled the rally ahead of the October 13 launch carrying 72 pounds of plutonium aboard a $34 billion mission to study Saturn.
Hundreds of thousands of Christian men gathered on the National Mall to pray and pledge to become better husbands fathers and churchmen. Founder Bill McCartney outlined free 37 nationwide events through 2002 and future global outreach to mobilize men to lead moral reform.
Berra Byrd a 27 year old Greenville resident sued former Citadel cadets George Carmeny III and David Alan Burdock Jr alleging negligence recklessness and conspiracy in a campus shooting that gravely wounded Byrd in March 1992 He seeks a jury trial and unspecified damages to test the case.
The Aiken Standard established 1867 is published weekday afternoons and Saturday and Sunday mornings by Aiken Communications Inc. PO Box 456, 326 Rutland Drive, Aiken SC 29802. Postage paid at Aiken. Home delivery and county mail rates listed.
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