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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1983
Page
2
The Lebanese army shut the Beirut airport highway due to heavy sniping while authorities offered convoy escorts on safer coastal roads. The measure did not halt airport traffic as 1,600 U.S. Marines remained stationed there for the multinational peacekeeping mission.
Augusta supporters say President Reagan George Shultz and Donald Regan plan a weekend at Augusta National Golf Club arriving Friday and leaving Sunday afternoon. The White House has not confirmed the plans and Leona Norton says wives are expected to join. Shultz is an Augusta National member.
In Washington supporters of a national Martin Luther King Jr. holiday prepare for a Senate vote on Sen. Jesse Helms's motion to send the bill to the Judiciary Committee. Opponents seek to defeat the motion to allow consideration of amendments, including a possible Sunday holiday or an equality day, with the birthday observed on the third Monday in January starting 1986.
Israel's parliament postponed a Labor Party backed no confidence motion against Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to allow debate on his choice of a new finance minister. Parliament expects to take up the issue by Wednesday with Shamir expected to win.
Survivors of the Foodland supermarket explosion recount a gas line rupture near the store. Seventeen injured, five hospitalized in stable condition as flames ripped through the building.
New vaccines against herpes hepatitis and influenza were created by inserting genes from the infections into the vaccinia smallpox virus. The method could enable single vaccines protecting against multiple diseases and may lower cost and increase safety. Human trials unlikely for two years.
Former anchor Christine Craft 38 says back on air unlikely soon as critics, including journalists, call her lecture appearances opportunistic after her August sex discrimination win. Neil Diamond evacuated from the Four Seasons Olympic Hotel Seattle as fire broke out on the 12th floor and smoke filled the building. 60 guests moved to the restaurant until firefighters contained the blaze.
A 1983 Government News Service special reports more than 150000 federal state and local openings. The notice urges readers to request a free report and send personal details to the Buffalo address with one dollar for expedited mailing.
Soviet generals told Stern in Hamburg that if NATOdeploys missiles in Europe able to reach the United States in 10 minutes, the USSR will counter with a faster intercontinental system. They warned of coordinated rocket deployments with allies to equalize Striking time, denying Cuba as a base.
The Aiken Standard lists contact numbers for subscriptions, classifieds, news ideas, and display ads. Offices at 124 Rutland Drive are open 8 30 a m to 5 30 p m Monday through Friday.
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