Weekend on the Cover Gambling Expands to Riverboats and Reservations
The edition notes a shift in high stakes gambling to Iowa riverboats and Connecticut’s Indian reservation. Entertainment highlights Suzanne Somers turning 45 next month and optimism for her new Step By Step sitcom with Patrick Duffy. Travel highlights fall scenery luring rafters along the Colorado River Idaho’s Salmon River and other rivers.
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Gambling
Las Vegas
Atlantic City
Iowa
Connecticut
Suzanne Somers
Patrick Duffy
Fall
Colorado River
Idaho
Salmon River
Rio Grande
Texas
New Mexico
Eleven Point River
Missouri
West Virginia
Gauley River
Taste Of Autumn Brings Cool Weather To Aiken County
A cold front drops today 93 to mid-70s with lower 50s at night. Tyrone Mosley of Bush Field says cooling lasts to Tuesday with mid to upper 70s days and low to mid 50s nights. Mostly sunny by afternoon and northeast breeze. Record lows not broken. current low 65.
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Aiken
Tyrone Mosley
Bush Field
Augusta
U S Infant Mortality Hits Record Low Amid Racial Gap
CDC reports the U S infant death rate fell to 10.0 per 1 000 births in 1988 from 10.1 in 1987 with preliminary 1989 and 1990 figures suggesting further declines. White infants died at 8.6 per 1 000 while black infants faced 17.6, birth defects being the leading cause and SIDS second for blacks.
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Atlanta
U.S
Federal
Centers For Disease Control
Cynthia Ferre
CDC
United States
Japan
Ferre
Deaths in Aiken North Augusta and Graniteville area
Obituary notices list Gladys Mae Hogan Aiken James K Howell Aiken J Van Maanen Hephzibah Donald Patrick Wilson North Augusta Rufus Yarbrough Graniteville details continued on Page 2B.
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Gladys Mae Hogan
Aiken
James K. Howell
J. van Maanen
Hephzibah
Donald Patrick Wilson
North Augusta
Rufus Yarbrough
Graniteville
Bond plan adds fallback funding for Ebasco HQ in Aiken County
A $4.5 million fallback in South Carolina's $275 million bond package would fund the Savannah Valley Authority to supervise a new Ebasco Services headquarters in Aiken County if local financing fails. The measure also funds USC Aiken facilities and two new prisons as the General Assembly resumes session to finish ethics and bond business.
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Ebasco Services
Aiken County
Thomas L
Tommy) Moore
Clearwater
Savannah Valley Authority
Usc Aiken
Moore
Ebasco
McCormick County
Savannah River
New Ellenton
Baker, Ashrawi Hold Surprise Talks on Palestinian State
Secretary of State James A. Baker III met today with Palestinian representative Hanan Ashrawi in Amman with PLO approval. She outlined aims of self-determination Jerusalem status and settlement policy while a State Department official signaled partial progress and no assurances beyond policy.
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Amman
Jordan
James A. Baker III
Palestinian Liberation Organization
Hanan Ashrawi
West Bank
Baker
Jerusalem
Washington
State Department
United States
Gaza
Ashrawi
Territories
Yasser
Arafat
Equal Pay Gap Persists For College Educated Blacks
A Census Bureau report shows college educated black men earn about 10 000 dollars less per year than white men with similar education. The study notes slower promotions and concentration in lower paying service jobs, with women showing a smaller pay gap.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Ronald Walters
Howard University
United States
Walters
Labor Department
Labor Report
Claudette Bennett
Tayma Mann
Population Reference Bureau
Washington Research
Neighbors Harvest Farm Crops for Bereaved Illinois Family
Lois Bell watched 50 neighbors harvest her son Dean Roberts corn after his death from an electrical accident on a farm near Sadorus Illinois. The crowd gathered as trucks and 13 combines moved 400 acres of corn to elevators with plans to harvest soybeans later, reflecting a tight farming community helping in tragedy.
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Sadorus
Lois Bell
Clifford
Bell
National Farm Safeweek
University of Illinois
National Safety Council
Illinois
Dean
Bell Chris Roberts
Dean Roberts
Chad
Heather
Chad Roberts
Bill Stierwalt
Dennis Bates
Champaign County
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Seousderne
S.C
Ebasco Project
Carl Langley
Donald M. Rothberg
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Associated Press
Robert Lee Zimmer
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