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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1985
Page
2
Riot police fired tear gas at Ein Shams University as 300 to 500 students demonstrated despite a government ban. The protests followed the Italian cruise ship hijacking, fueling fears they could undermine President Mubarak.
Tens of thousands attended funerals for 14 riot victims in Johannesburg and Cape Town. In Guguletu about 30,000 filled a stadium for six victims with no incidents, while police kept whites out. Athlone services for four others also reported peaceful outcomes.
In accordance with Rock Hudson's wishes close friends held a memorial at the actor's home where he spent his final days. Publicist Chen Lam organized the private service with about 150 attendees and did not release a guest list or disclose the invited minister. Elizabeth Taylor was expected to attend and has previously organized AIDS research fundraisers. Hudson died October 2 at age 59 and was cremated with ashes scattered at sea last week.
In Miami the pull of drug money has drawn many police and some federal agents toward trafficking robbery kidnapping and possible murder. FBI joins probes while eight officers are already out or under discipline and up to twenty two more under investigation. The surge of narcotics cash links South American producers to U.S. buyers.
Singer Ray Charles escaped injury when his four engine plane ran off a runway at Monroe County Airport and slid into a cornfield. Twenty six people including Charles were hospitalized for observation but none were seriously hurt. Charles was released within two hours and moved to a hotel.
Italy foreign minister Giulio Andreotti said the Egyptian airliner carrying Achille Lauro hijackers was bound for Rome but landed in Sicily after U.S. warplanes intercepted it. Abbas was released to Yugoslavia due to lack of evidence. extradition requests for the four hijackers and Abbas were presented, with Italy to pursue verification while protecting Abbas from kidnapping charges.
Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca and United Auto Workers of Canada head Robert White met in New York and Canada to push a tentative pact for 10 000 Canadian autoworkers. UAWs in the United States, numbering 70 000, were on a fourth day of strike with talks not resuming until Monday. White said progress included some pact terms but key differences remained for Chrysler Canada Ltd officials to resolve.
A Roper Organization poll for Philip Morris of 3 000 women and 1 000 men finds half of women frown on premarital sex yet 80 percent support equal sexual freedom for single women and men. 49 percent call sex before marriage immoral, 44 percent not immoral. Men and women show a trend toward shared responsibility marriages while many still desire traditional roles. Abortion veto rights split near evenly by gender. March survey with small margins.
In Columbia, prison officials report Benjamin A. Joyner stabbed co defendant Willie Nesmith in their Kirkland Correctional cell on July 26 after Nesmith refused to sign a statement alleging Joyner compelled him to participate in Barbara Lynn Rossi's death. Green testified Joyner aimed to force a post conviction relief appeal statement. The Rossi case also involves James Pierce and Marcel lus Pierce in the 1984 killing of the USC nursing student.
The Aiken Standard lists contact numbers for subscriptions and classifieds and notes display ad inquiries. Office hours are 8 30 a m to 5 30 p m Monday through Friday. The mailing address is Box 456 Aiken South Carolina 29802.
Emergency numbers listed as a service by the Aiken Standard. Publication details show the paper is published weekday afternoons by Aiken Communications Inc. for Aiken, South Carolina.
The chief U.S. ABM negotiator says Reagan era debate over the pact is absurd claiming the ABM treaty bans testing and development of space based defenses. He notes Star Wars research is not prohibited by the 1972 accord and recalls its role in ongoing Geneva talks with Gorbachev.
Anthony Mandia, 44, first Penn State artificial heart recipient, thanked his doctors after five hour implant at Hershey Medical Center. He was off a respirator, drinking fluids, and praised the medical team as the device works to bridge to a donor heart, costing around 95 to 100 thousand dollars.
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