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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1989
Page
2
President Johnson ordered a pause in all U S bombing over North Vietnam in 1968 and stated the move aimed to spur productive peace negotiations with the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese leadership.
Halloween haunts draw high insurance costs as insurers balk at attractions with jumping scare moments and flames. Civic groups warn coverage can be costly or unavailable even for innocent setups, with some insurers charging thousands for a few days of operation.
The EPA reports serious pollution affecting about one-quarter of over 12 million lake acres in 34 states. Another 20 percent of lake land may soon be impaired. Agricultural and urban runoff account for about three-fourths of pollution. An 11 percent share comes from industrial or sewage discharges. The agency faces a lawsuit over lack of national toxic pollution standards for public waterways.
In Talladega Tammy Faye Bakker spent the weekend with her husband, held in a medium security federal prison. She spoke with The National Enquirer and local residents about her heart feeling like it hung outside her chest amid the high profile visit.
Mitsubishi Estate Co plans to pay 846 million dollars for a controlling stake in the company that owns Rockefeller Center and Radio City Music Hall. The deal follows Sony’s 3.4 billion purchase of Columbia Pictures and signals ongoing Japanese real estate expansion in the United States.
The Aiken Standard is a weekday and weekend newspaper published by Aiken Communications Inc. in Aiken South Carolina since 1867. It mails second class postage and provides address change information to its readers via P.O. Box 456, 124 Rutland Drive, Aiken SC 29802.
Hundreds of thousands in East German cities protested democratic change as Egon Krenz prepared for his first foreign trip to Moscow. Rally sizes counted 300000 in Leipzig with supports in Halle Schwerin Karl Marx Stadt Cottbus Magdeburg Poessneck and East Berlin amid calls for free elections and ending party monopoly.
Captain praised crew after a T 2 Buckeye jet crash killed five people on the USS Lexington in Pensacola. The incident injured 19 aboard the carrier nicknamed Lady Lex with one female sailor among the dead. Crew member Dee Votolato kept taping through the blaze and fire crews halted the flames within minutes as two investigations begin.
A Manhattan jury convicts Steven Smith of murder for raping and strangling Dr. Kathryn Hinnant at Bellevue Hospital on January 7. The 33 year old physician was pregnant. Smith, who had lived in a Bellevue storeroom, argued insanity, but the jury found him fully aware and criminally responsible.
Secretary Baker warns Sandinistas may use warnings to cancel elections set for February. Ortega insists the vote will occur with or without the Contras, speaking through an NBC interpreter after a landmark hemispheric democracy conference. Baker says no rift on Gorbachev reform policy. A Post report suggests a possible Bush Gorbachev summit in December aboard a Mediterranean ship to discuss aid.
Army sergeant Clyde Lee Conrad, accused of selling NATO secrets, was recruited in 1974 by Zoltan Szabo a Hungarian immigrant and Vietnam War veteran now living in Austria. Szabo allegedly began spying for Hungary in 1967 and remains outside German and Austrian extradition due to legal limits.
San Francisco reports billions in quake damage as lawmakers prepare to debate funding. About 30,000 apply for emergency housing grants and loans while a poll shows support for a sales tax hike. Oakland rally urged public transport use and quake relief contributions from fans.
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