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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1985
Page
2
Federal court rejects a suit by four Democratic congressmen to block the ASAT test and the Senate votes 62 to 34 against delaying the operation. The test targets the Solwind satellite from about 90 000 feet aboard an F 15, aiming to track and destroy the satellite.
Washington AP reports a scientist warns famine would outpace bombed cities as the top death cause after a limited nuclear exchange. A study by the International Council of Scientific Unions says smoke would block sunlight and trigger a nuclear winter, destroying crops.
In Anaheim California Episcopal leaders clash over ordination of homosexuals and fears of AIDS transmission via the communion cup as deputies vote on a canonical change prohibiting denial of ordination based on race color ethnic origin gender sexual orientation handicap or age with results due today.
Danes confirm Gordievski linked to Soviet espionage in Copenhagen in the 1970s. Britain's Howe calls the defection a major security coup and expulsion of 25 Soviet nationals deemed necessary for national security.
In Johannesburg, a government panel urged repealing pass laws amid ongoing anti apartheid protests and mass arrests. Activists like Sheena Duncan and Helen Suzman hailed the move as a possible end to apartheid while police crackdowns in Soweto left a teacher and several students wounded.
European Space Agency officials confirmed the Ariane 3 rocket carrying an American and a European satellite was destroyed near launch site in Kourou French Guiana after radar detected a downward trajectory. The three-stage failure followed nine prior successes and ends the European push to challenge US shuttle launches.
A Metropolitan Life poll of 1,847 public school teachers finds over 25 percent expect to quit within five years due to low pay and poor conditions. It shows 64 percent believe reforms favor administrators, not teachers, and 79 percent back higher starting salaries while 74 percent favor less non teaching duties.
Aiken Standard offices at 124 Rutland Drive operate from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
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