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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1989
Page
2
Rep. Bill Green notes the president may have stumbled onto a pivotal issue that could affect his bid for reelection. The quote highlights a potential political vulnerability that opponents could exploit in the upcoming campaign landscape.
On this day in 1984 in Loma Linda California a newborn named Baby Fae with a severe heart defect is given a baboon heart in an experimental transplant. The case drew national attention as a pioneering procedure in xenotransplant research.
President Bush to announce a plan that would let the EPA suspend the use of a pesticide during proceedings. Environmentalists call the plan a step backward in safeguarding the food supply, citing the Alar controversy and NRDC opposition.rn
New York novelist and critic Mary McCarthy died of cancer at New York Hospital at age 77. A towering figure among American letters, she rose from The Nation and Partisan Review to fame with The Group and earned awards from the National Medal for Literature to Guggenheim Fellowships.
Willard Scott said Pauley will leave the Today show and move to prime time NBC News specials. An NBC executive confirmed a likely year-end departure with Pauley remaining on Today briefly.
The Aiken Standard was established in 1867 and is published weekday afternoons and Saturday and Sunday mornings by Aiken Communications Inc. Address changes should be sent to P O Box 456 124 Rutland Drive Aiken South Carolina 29802.
The Bush administration renewed the U S trade embargo against Nicaragua two days before a multinational meeting with Daniel Ortega in Costa Rica. Baker warned against Ortega's alleged propaganda and criticised Nicaragua's Feb 25 elections as unfair. The U S also complained to the Soviet Union about shipments of arms to El Salvador and extended the embargo for six more months citing national security concerns.
Jim Bakker's lawyer Harold Bender says pretrial publicity jury instruction errors and the 45 year sentence form the grounds for an appeal. Bakker is imprisoned in Talladega awaiting the 4th Circuit review while two former aides report to a different minimum security prison.
The House sustained President Bush's veto on abortion funding for rape and incest victims in Medicaid, 231-191, well short of the two thirds needed to overturn. Representatives Smith AuCoin Green weighed in on the political stakes as lawmakers argue public opinion splits along party lines.
Former HUD Secretary Samuel Pierce may again refuse to testify before a congressional subcommittee probing the agency. His lawyer says the committee is prejudged and a fair hearing is unlikely. Pierce has invoked the Fifth Amendment and will decide on Friday whether to testify, while banning cameras.
In Kabul a group of 15 former top officials and Western-educated officers form the National Salvation Society a third force to end Soviet and American interference and unite Afghanistan They estimate 2 million killed and 7 million fled since 1978 and say illiteracy runs high amid land abandonment The group includes ex ministers police chief and central bank governor and has noted popular diplomatic support.
Federal sources say AZT will be more widely available to children under 13 under an FDA Treatment IND. The strawberry syrup form, easier to swallow and dose adjust, will be provided free to eligible children 3 months to 12 years with advanced AIDS illness. Mathilde Krim calls it a good step but overdue.
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