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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1981
Page
11
The House endorsed an indefinite extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act with no weakening. After nine hours of GOP attempts to loosen federal enforcement, all amendments failed. The final tally was 389 to 24 with six Democrats voting no. Many Republicans supported the extension despite earlier efforts to weaken it.
Republican senators press for a report intended for President Reagan to guide the decision on placing MX missiles in existing silos and reviving the B-1 bomber. Defense Secretary Weinberger cites lack of authority to release a Reagan-directed document during a Senate Armed Services hearing on the six year, 180.3 billion dollar strategic weapons program.
In Jennings Louisiana a visiting North Carolina evangelist Rev Bill Bowman 46 was shot and killed while waiting to preach at a tent revival in Topsy. A minister said drugs apparently influenced the shooter who fired once between Bowman’s eyes as he held a Bible.
Atlanta voters faced a mild turnout in a mayoral race featuring former UN ambassador Andrew Young and six other candidates. Black control of city hall was at stake as Mayor Maynard Jackson, Atlanta’s first Black mayor, was barred from a third term by law.
Belfast reports say the British government will grant some IRA hunger strikers demands after their fast ends. One account notes prisoners may lose the right to freely associate. another says this demand would be only partially satisfied.
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