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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1986
Page
2
IBM will sell its South African subsidiary to a new employee benefit company, as political and economic unrest rises. The unit employed 1,914 in 1984 and the deal should close by March 1 with Jack Clarke appointed to lead the new firm.
Representatives Edward Markey and Jim Weaver charged that the Department of Energy suppressed and altered documents to favor Hanford in Washington Deaf Smith County Texas and Yucca Mountain Nevada. They cited evidence of deleting unfavorable information and manipulating data to reach predetermined site selections.
A toxic red tide covering hundreds of square miles of Gulf water may linger into December. National Weather Service forecaster Pat Patterson says seasonality could extend it. The bloom, appearing near Galveston in August and moving into Mexican waters, has killed millions of fish and prompted beach closures in Corpus Christi and oyster harvesting suspensions statewide starting November 1.
Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel plans a weeklong trip to the Soviet Union to urge Mikhail Gorbachev to allow Jews and other dissidents to emigrate. He aims to invite Moscow to a Washington conference on non Jewish Holocaust victims and discuss human rights with Soviet leaders.
NATO defense ministers gather at Gleneagles Scotland to discuss the alliance future amid U S Soviet Union talks on deep nuclear cuts. The meeting follows Reykjavik talks and raises alarms among allies including West Germany over possible vulnerability to Soviet bloc forces. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger arrives to reassure allies Washington will not abandon them.
Congress approves a 3 percent across the board pay raise for military personnel starting January 1 1987. The plan starts voluntary dental insurance for dependents and lets single parents leaving active duty join the National Guard and Reserves. It also cuts officer numbers by 1 and reduces the president's request to increase overall active duty strength by half.
Remington Arms plans moving to Bridgeport and seeks to rename Asylum Street to avoid connotations of mental institutions. City officials and historians oppose the change citing mailing addresses licenses and stationery costs. City historian David Palmquist notes asylum once referred to a refuge established in 1865 for the poor widows and orphans.
In Columbia, Lt. Gov. Mike Daniel and Rep. Carroll Campbell spar in a second televised debate two weeks before the election. They trade ethics questions over a state lease and congressional pay raise while accusing each other of distortions as voters prepare to decide who will lead the state.
Democratic nominee Mike Daniel urged full Education Improvement Act funding at a joint House Senate education committee meeting. He pledged a special committee to map full funding, suggested tapping the capital expenditure fund, privatization, and bond pooling to finance EIA without new taxes. Both campaigns framed education as top priority.
West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl arrives in Washington to press President Reagan on a nuclear arms reduction agreement with the Soviet Union. He warns against any deal that leaves Western Europe exposed to Soviet conventional forces, and met with Reagan and Secretary of State Shultz as Iceland talks loomed.
The notice lists subscription options 3 Months 21 dollars 6 Months 42 dollars 12 Months 84 dollars for the Aiken Standard. It includes phone numbers for subscriptions advertising and news ideas and the office address 124 Rutland Drive Aiken South Carolina 29802 and mailing address Box 496 Aiken SC 29802.
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