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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1996
Page
2
Swiss officials reject U.S. Senator D Amato accusations that inquiries into unclaimed Holocaust era bank deposits are stalled. D Amato calls Swiss inaction a grave moral failing and accuses authorities of repeating Nazi era misdeeds.
Jodie Foster, a veteran screen star, receives the actor of the decade award at the Chicago International Film Festival. She remains humble, saying it is hard to view herself as a trophy winner.
National Guard troops pulled out as ministers urged calm in St Petersburg where rioting followed the shooting of Tyron Lewis, 18, by a white officer during a traffic stop. Police say the car lurched toward the officer. 200 guardsmen were deployed, a state of emergency declared, and gun and gasoline sales banned.
General Motors and the United Auto Workers paused contract talks after midnight with no deal and no announced extension. Negotiators left GM’s world headquarters near 2 a.m. as the union’s 95 percent job guarantee demand remained a sticking point.
In San Bernardino and Riverside counties wildfires driven by winds forced evacuations near a 600 acre blaze north of San Bernardino. By nightfall containment was about 50 percent with crews suspecting a campfire start. Another Rubidoux blaze east of Los Angeles burned 175 acres before containment.
Richard Jewell, cleared of suspicion in the Atlanta Olympic Park bombing, says a non healing scar will always mar his reputation and he may never realize his dream of a law enforcement career. He planned a news conference to discuss how he became a hunted suspect amid the July 1996 blast that killed one and wounded more than a hundred.
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