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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1998
Page
2
Mexico City areas reported a gray ash fall after Popocatepetl emitted a steam and ash plume about 2 1/2 miles high. Officials issued a yellow alert and urged staying 2 1/2 miles from the crater as rain limited ash spread.
Beijing and Taipei plan a high level meeting between Koo Chen-fu and Wang Daohan next month to ease relations without formal ties. The accord aims to revive dialogue after talks stalled in 1995. lower officials had been negotiating a second meeting when Beijing halted discussions. In a separate report a coal mine explosion in Baofeng county Henan Province killed 28 and injured 1, leaving 29 miners trapped with no escape.
Elaine Franklin, former chief of staff to Senator Bob Packwood, announced plans to marry him before Christmas at a private location. Packwood, a 66 year old Oregon Republican, left the Senate in 1995 amid sexual conduct accusations. Franklin runs political consulting.
The United States and United Nations move toward force against Serbs to stop the Kosovo crisis. The Security Council considers a Chapter Seven resolution threatening military action unless Milosevic agrees to a cease fire and talks with Kosovo Albanians. NATO is asked to seek commitments of arms and troops to back a multinational force as the West presses Milosevic. German and British officials support action, while China may abstain.
Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan is set to address the Senate Banking Committee amid rising expectations the Fed will cut U S interest rates to counter a widening global financial crisis. New York Fed President William McDonough signaled concern about weak growth guiding policy.
A national rating by the National Committee for Quality Assurance finds patient satisfaction with HMOs averages 56 percent. New England patients report better care, while about 20 percent faced some trouble with delays or seeing specialists. Only 38 percent rate information about services as good or excellent and 42 percent approve the number of doctors to choose from.
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Timothy McVeigh asks an appeals court to rehear his Oklahoma City bombing trial arguing a juror remark that “we all know what the verdict should be” tainted jurors. He was sentenced to die for the April 19 1995 attack that killed 168 and injured 500 plus.
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