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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1998
Page
2
Russian President Boris Yeltsin agreed to return to Moscow a day early due to health concerns, following a stop in Almaty Kazakhstan. Interfax reported doctors insisted he head home, with no word of serious illness.
Aspen hosts charity concerts and church memorials marking the first anniversary of John Denver death. Former bandmates headline A Musical Tribute to John Denver to aid disability causes. other events support Hunger Project Planet 2000 and Denver’s charities. Denver died October 12, 1997 near Pacific Grove California. The obituary note mentions Rocky Mountain High became his signature song.
After a marathon night session US envoy Richard Holbrooke pressed Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic to halt the Kosovo crackdown. NATO drafted an activation order for airstrikes as diplomats evacuated Belgrade and talks resumed amid a high-stakes standoff with the UN monitoring demand and international observers awaiting a breakthrough.
Nobel Prize winners are Robert F Furghgott Louis J Ignarro and Ferid Murad for discoveries about nitric oxide as a signaling molecule in the cardiovascular system and its roles from arteries to impotence. The laureates’ affiliations include SUNY Brooklyn UCLA and UT Houston.
Pope John Paul II declared Edith Stein a martyr of Auschwitz the first Jewish born saint of the modern era. He urged annual observance of her saint day for Holocaust victims, calling her an eminent daughter of Israel and a faithful daughter of the church in a St Peter’s Square ceremony marked by reconciliation gestures.
National roundup reports Matthew Shepard, 21, died from injuries after a hate crime attack near Laramie Wyoming. He had been on life support since discovery tethered to a fence post in near freezing temperatures.
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