Fire damages Aiken Elementary Bell Tower in lightning strike
Aiken Elementary School faced a Saturday night fire caused by a lightning strike on a bell tower. Seven fire engines and 33 public safety officers fought the blaze for about an hour, with the other tower spared. Repair cost estimates were to be released today.
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Aiken
Aiken Public Safety Department
Bill Clyburn
Clyburn
Kathryn Windham
Aiken Department of Public Safety
Jim Ray
Sce&g
Ray
Bob Mauney
Aiken Civil Defense
Weeks Center
Terry Rhinehart
Brezhnev Urges Reagan to Act at U.N. Council
Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev asked President Reagan to join the Soviet Union in pressuring Israel at the U.N. Security Council. Tass reported Brezhnev blamed the United States for the weekend massacre of Palestinians in west Beirut refugee camps and urged joint action to curb Israel’s conduct.
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Moscow
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Reagan
United States
Soviet Union
U.N. Security Council
Israel
Tass
Brezhnev
West Beirut
U.S
Security Council
Council
Thurmond Denies Savannah River Plant Breach Report
Senator Thurmond and the Department of Energy deny reports that mock terrorists seized a reactor control room at Savannah River nuclear weapons plant during a 1980 drill. They say no infiltration or hostage seizure occurred and call the Washington Post account inaccurate and dangerous.
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Washington
Strom Thurmond
Rs.c
Department of Energy
Atlanta Constitution
Army Green Berets
CIA
Savannah River
Herman E. Roser
Defense Programs
Seven River
South Carolina
Sen. Thurmond
Energy
James B. Edwards
Washington Post
Edwards
House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee On Oversight and Investigations
General Accounting Office
John Dingell
D-Mich
GAO
Roser
Takeover bids rise in textile industry across major firms
Greenville AP reports rising takeover bids in textiles as stocks trade below book value and profits loom. Carl Icahn leads a 6.9 percent stake in Dan River Inc., while Gulf & Western buys 22 percent of J P Stevens. Dan River employs about 3,000 at 10 South Carolina plants.
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Greenville
Kay Norwood
Interstate Securities Corp
Charlotte
N.C
Jack Pickler
Wheat First Securities Brokerage
Richmond
New York
Dan River Inc
Dan River
New York Stock Exchange
New York Investment Group
Carl Icahn
Securities and Exchange Commission
T.L. George
South Carolina
Los Angeles
David Murdock
Cannon Mills Co
Kannanolis
Gulf & Western Industries Inc
J.P. Stevens & Co. Inc
Coroporation
Stevens
Pickler
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Ginny Southworth
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Aiken County
Abby Erma Bombeck
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