10 Aug 1987
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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1987
Page
1
Central New Yorkers watched 13 and under basketball athletes at the AAU USA Junior Olympics. Andy Jugan urged perspective as events unfolded. Visitors and locals observed with mutual curiosity and anticipation for the rest of the meet. Coverage continues on C1.
Police say slick pavement and heavy rain caused a crash on Interstate 690 just east of the New York State Fairgrounds. Raymond Szewczyk, 40, of Syracuse was pronounced dead after his car slid off the road into Nine Mile Creek. Rescue teams recovered the body and searched for others as investigators review autopsy results.
Larry Flynt and Larry Flynt Publications push into non sex titles with four new magazines in two years and two more planned. President James Kohls notes a conservative trend, store pullouts, and Hustler sales drop to about 65 percent of profits from 95 percent two years ago, with future profits seen at around 20 percent.
Florentino Azpillaga, a 40 year old Cuban intelligence officer who defected, says Castro’s regime wastes funds on espionage amid tightening shortages. He claims to know names of operatives worldwide and expects to aid U.S. officials after an interview on Radio Marti. Defector’s location not disclosed. debriefings likely in Washington.
Three Kuwaiti tankers and U S warship escorts sailed up the Persian Gulf after an overnight secret stop to avoid Iranian ambush risk. A private craft struck a floating mine near Bahrain with no casualties. Mines have appeared off Bahrain before. earlier in the year two children died examining a washed up mine.
Historian Peter Francis Jr. questions the famed 1626 Manhattan sale to the Dutch, noting no beads appear in original Dutch records. The 1848 O Callaghan account cites 60 guilders, about 40 today, while later writers claimed beads and trinkets were offered but evidence remains contested.
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