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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1986
Page
2
The Reagan administration reported a 220.7 billion deficit for the year ending Sept. 30, with receipts at 769.1 billion and outlays at 989.8 billion. The figure raises the cumulative debt to 2.2 trillion and marks a new record in interest payments at 187.1 billion.
The Marine Corps marks its 211th birthday with a public worship service at Washington National Cathedral. Marine Band Brass Choir performs as Gen. P X Kelley Rear Adm. John R McNamara and Sgt Maj. Robert E Cleary read scriptures. Capt. Walter A Hiskett will deliver the commemorative sermon per the Pentagon.
University of Michigan sociologist Reynolds Farley says the North has become the most segregated region with Detroit and Chicago leading in black white housing patterns. New York and Los Angeles follow. Washington D C tops integration of neighborhoods.
Government data show private industry workers saw average wage gains of 3.5 percent over the past year, down from 5.0 percent a year earlier, indicating earnings kept pace with inflation. In North Dakota, Gov. Sinner ended a 1961 order requiring National Guard cooperation with Boy Scouts, plus 92 other obsolete directives, ratifying 25 reforms including a leadership push for state beautification.
US officials traced September phone bills to a safe house in El Salvador used by Americans aiding the Contra supply network. The records show calls to Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North and to Stanford Technology Trading and Southern Air Transport linked to the covert operation connected to CIA and White House actions.
Citadel Board chairman George James says the recent racial hazing case at the military college is isolated and does not indicate a broader problem. President Maj. Gen. James Grimsley Jr. will investigate hazing and race relations as five white cadets face disciplinary action for harassing a black freshman and leaving a burned cross.
U S military experts fly to Hanoi to resume fourth round talks on missing in action cases from the Vietnam War. The talks aim to resolve 1786 MIA cases and may include a second excavation of a warplane crash site for remains.
In London the House of Commons approved a measure granting deaconesses most powers of deacons. The 303 to 25 vote allows 800 deaconesses to enter holy orders wear clerical collars and be titled reverend while remaining barred from priesthood. Deaconesses already can baptize, conduct funerals, and lead prayers.
In Moscow, Svyatoslav Fyodorov, renowned eye surgeon, writes a public letter to Pravda expressing shame that recently made Soviet elevator equipment performs worse than models from sixty years ago. He notes Cuban leader Fidel Castro visiting did not fix the lifts.
The Aiken Standard provides phone numbers for subscriptions advertising and news ideas and lists office hours from 5:30 to 7:00 and 8:00 to 10:30 on Sunday, with offices at 124 Rutland Drive and mailing address Box 456 Aiken SC 29802.
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