Yeltsin winds up U.S. tour ending in supermarket visit
Boris Yeltsin wrapped a nine city U.S. tour with a stop at Randall’s Supermarket near Houston. He praised American markets comparing them to Soviet life and joked about soap for a starving Russia. He also toured NASA’s Mission Control and received a yellow rose and snacks.
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Miami
Boris Yeltsin
Soviet Union
United States
Yeltsin
Randall’s
Houston
NASA Mission Control
Johnson Space Center
Politburo
Mikhail Gorbachev
North Carolina delays nuclear waste site pick date
North Carolina officials say the state will not name candidate sites by October 1 as required by Congress. The process will continue, with a possible December deadline, as the authority tests potential sites and reviews options across several southern states.
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Raleigh
N.C
Southeast
North Carolina
Congress
South Carolina
Tennessee
Virginia
Georgia
Alabama
Florida
Mississippi
Barnwell
S.C
Chem-Nuclear Systems Inc
Chem-Nuclear
Tenney I. Deane Jr
Indiana Woman Revels in Sea Treasure Fortune
Patty Thompson-Jones, sister of Tommy Thompson, helps spend funds from Columbus America Discovery. The group salvaging the SS Central America treasure off the Atlantic may reap up to 1 billion dollars, with revised estimates around 400 million.
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Indianapolis
Patty Thompson-Jones
E Thompson Family
Huntington
Tommy
Columbus America Discovery
U.S
Charleston
Thompson
Thompson-Jones
Columbus
Ohio
Recovery Limited Partnership
Central America
Atlantic Ocean
Aiken Standard Subscription and Contact Details
The Aiken Standard announces advertising contact numbers for Classified Display and News tips and provides customer service hours. It lists subscription rates for home delivery with monthly and yearly terms and states publication details and address for address changes. The notice includes the Postmaster and mailing information for Aiken South Carolina.
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Aiken Standard
Aiken Communications Inc
P.O. Box
Rutland Drive
Aiken
S.C
Banks Push IMF World Bank To Aid European Market Shift
A spokesman for major banks urges the IMF and World Bank to join in market oriented reform for the Soviet bloc and East Europe. Horst Schulmann of the Institute of International Finance calls for removing controls, funding structural changes, and IFC private sector support to privatize state industries. The letter, dated Sept 12, accompanies the annual meetings in Washington with Brady and Bush agendas.
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Washington
World Bank
International Monetary Fund
Soviet Union
IMF
Horst Kulmann
Institute of International Finance
United States
Britain
China
East
Poland
Hungary
Yugoslavia
Schulmann
Helmut Schmidt
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They Can't Go Home in Soviet Meskhetia Turmoil
Eight Soviet Georgians block ethnic Turks at a checkpoint as fears rise over possible violent returns to Meskhetia. Pogroms in Uzbekistan claimed 100 lives, while Stalin’s 1944 deportations still echo. Gorbachev faces ethnic conflicts amid Central Committee talks on nationalities and unity.
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Atskuri
U.S.S.R
Kura
Meskhetia
Georgia
Josef Stalin
Uzbekistan
Central Asia
Mikhail S. Gorbachev
Soviet Union
Georgy Okromalidze
Meskhetian
Soviet Georgia
Infant Mortality Tops Governors’ Opening
Southern governors convened in Wilmington to discuss infant mortality as a key factor in economic growth. Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton chaired sessions on maternal and child health while business leaders shared cost-cutting prenatal programs. The South reports higher infant mortality than the national rate, with calls for industry and health care collaboration.
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Wilmington
Del
Delaware
Michael N. Castle
Southern Governors’ Association
SGA
Arkansas
Bill Clinton
Southern
Clinton
Florida
Bob Martinez
Maryland
William Donald Schaefer
Joe Taylor
Sunbeam Appliance Co
Coushatta
South
Rabin Visits Cairo to Mediate Palestinian Elections Plan
Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin arrived in Cairo for talks with President Mubarak on an Egyptian proposal to end the Palestinian uprising. The mission seeks cooperation on elections in the West Bank and Gaza and to align Israeli and Egyptian peace efforts. Rabin, 67, aims to clarify the Israeli peace plan amid the ongoing uprising of about 1.7 million Palestinians since December 1987.
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Cairo
Egypt
Yitzhak Rabin
Israel
West Bank
Gaza Strip
Esmat Abdel- Meguid
Rabin
Ternational
Hosni Mubarak
Mubarak
Gaza
Refugee Passports Seized to Block East German Exodus
East German refugees report Czechoslovak and East German authorities are confiscating passports and travel visas to halt emigration toward Hungary and the West. Some refugees swim the Danube to escape, or seek illegal routes through Czechoslovakia, as Bavaria reports about 750 arrivals overnight.
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Budapest
Hungary
Vakia
West Germany
East Germany
Wolfgang Wagner
Maltese Aid Service
Bavaria
Wagner
Danube River
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Associated Press
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Taylor
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Austria
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