Gun Battle Spurs Drug Arrests Across Counties
Aiken County sheriff reports a gun battle and chase led to two arrests after suspects fled from North Augusta toward Martinez Georgia. Officers seized 150 to 180 pounds of marijuana during a Metro Narcotics Squad operation involving multiple counties.
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Aiken County
Paul D. Grant
Augusta
Martinez
Richland County
Frank Powell
Aiken
Metro
Lexington
Powell
Kershaw
Fairfield
Giant Drug Operation Slowed in Nationwide Sweep
Federal narcotics agents halted a major amphetamine ring based in Mexico with indictments in 10 US cities. The DEA named 125 suspects, most in their 20s, as arrests reached 97 in the United States and 25 in Mexico by dawn.
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Washington
Arcotics
Fedal
Ment Paap
DEA
United States
Mexico
Admiral urges U S to remove bombs overseas
Retired Adm. Gene R. Lu a former Navy fleet commander and strategic planner who now leads the Center for Defense Information testified Tuesday before a Senate atomic energy subcommittee urging the United States to remove its nuclear bombs from overseas use citing terrorism and instability as hazards.
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Washington
United States
Congress
Gene R. Lu
Navy
Center For Defense Information
Senate Atomic Energy Subcommittee
Castro May Want To Talk Washington
Signals from Havana suggest Fidel Castro may favor dialogue with the United States to lessen dependence on the Soviet Union. The Ford administration has begun an invasive review of policy as feelers reach Washington through American visitors and Cuba adopts a less hostile stance.
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Washington
Havana
Fidel Castro
Unitedates
Fordministration
U.S
Caribbean
Soviet Union
Cuba
United States
Rebellion collapses as 100 killed in Lisbon clashes
AP reports more than 100 people killed in street battles in Lourenco Marques as upheaval ends. A Portuguese government communique cites racial violence and says the army is sending reinforcements to Lisbon from northern Mozambique.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Lourenco
Mozambique
Stock Exchange Votes on Extending Trading Day to 4 P.M.
New York AP reports the New York Stock Exchange board will vote Thursday on a proposal to extend trading hours by a half hour to 4 p.m. after a six month delay to poll its members.
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NEW York
The
New
Wk Stock Exchange
Life size Clemson display spotlights Aiken farmer Tom Coward
Aikenite Tom Coward appears in Clemson University’s Involvement Careers in Agricultural Science display. The 450 acre farmer is son of H C Coward and wife Kathleen Sampson, with three daughters. District Superintendent T Billis smiles at BOE meeting as news of granddaughter Jennifer Carla born last week. Local child comments on noisy sprinklers during a Laurens Street reading session.
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Clemson University
Tom Coward
H.C. Coward
Tom
Katy Sampson
T.B. /illis
Aiken County
Summerfield May Get Relief From Drainage Woes
Aiken County Board of Commissioners moved quickly on land use measures approving a sediment control ordinance a Planning Commission and a relief resolution for Summerfield residents plagued by erosion and runoff. The plan would have North Augusta pay for drainage pipe plus materials estimated at 10 000 for materials and 6 000 for labor, funded from revenue sharing. The resolution aims to end dead center while not authorizing funds and will be sent back to North Augusta officials by the Summerfield citizens group.
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Aiken
North Augusta
Arthur Courtney
Summerfield
Carrol H. Warner
Warner
Nuclear age drama unfolds in Barnwell court case scene
In a Barnwell County courtroom, Allied General Nuclear Services faces environmental groups Environmentalists Inc Environmental Action Inc and Organic Movement led by Townsend M Belser Jr over a proposed fuel reprocessing plant. The case centers on energy potential versus environmental concerns as construction nears completion.
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Emily L. Bull
Barnwell
Barnwell County
South Carolina
Edgar A Brown
Solomon Blatt
Allied General Nuclear Services of
Environmentalists
Environmentalists, Inc
Environmental Action, Inc
Organic Movement
Columbia
Townsend M. Belser Jr
Eastern Flight 212 Crashes Near Charlotte Airport
Eastern Flight 212 a DC9-30 carrying 78 passengers and four crew crashes into a wooded hillside near Douglas Municipal Airport in Charlotte killing or injuring many. 13 survivors including Collette Watson and James M Daniels Jr are reported. An NTSB team arrives to investigate.
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Charlotte, N.C
Eastern Airlines
Charlotte
Douglas Municipal Airport
Collette Watson
James M. Daniels Jr
Atlanta
National Guard Armory
Eastern Flight 212
Charleston
S.C
National Transportation Safety Board
Partly Cloudy Warm Weather Forecast Today and Tonight
The forecast calls for partly cloudy skies and warm temperatures in the upper 80s. Tonight will be fair and mild with a low in the 60s. Rain chances are around w percent today and Thursday, 10 percent tonight. Afternoon thundershowers may dampen the otherwise pleasant weekend.
No specific law allows appeal says official
Assistant Attorney General Randy Mahan states there is no specific law authorizing Friends of the Hospital to appeal a Department of Health & Environmental Control order. He notes the law is mute on an appeal right, while the Hospital Corporation of America plans a 190 bed county hospital and opponents anticipate court action.
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Friends of the Hospital
Department of Health & Environmental Control
Randy Mahan
State Department of Health
Hospital Corporation of America
Mahan
Aiken County Shows Enrollment Decline Amid Gains in Kindergarten
The Aiken County Board of Education reports ten day enrollment at 23 290, down from 23 832 last year. Regular students total 22 088 with 426 in special schools and 776 in kindergarten. Area drops reach 375 in area No 1 and 222 in area No 2 while kindergarten enrollment rises across all areas.
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Aiken County
Willis
Area No
Area No. 2
Owen Clary
Jet Explodes Upon Landing Scatters Debris Across Scene
Witnesses describe a two mile smoke plume after Eastern jet crash near a Charlotte area. Survivors were found by locals including a farmer who carried five people to safety. Rescue crews found four men and a stewardess later identified as Mrs Watson. she survived. Captain J E Reeves, 48, and flight attendant E A Kerth were aboard.
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William Rawlings
Charlotte
Rawlings
Thomas Cox
Melton
Presbyterian Hospital
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