New York City Sees Record Homicide Year In 1990
AP reports unofficial police statistics show over 2,000 murders in New York during the first 11 months of 1990, making it the bloodiest year on record. The figure rises from 1,905 murders in all of 1989, as six additional homicides occurred from Sunday night into Monday morning.
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Missouri
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Youths Attack Police After Acquittal Riots Erupt
In Miami several dozen youths set fires and threw rocks at officers after six federal civil rights charges were largely dismissed in the beating death of a small time drug dealer. Looting occurred in a Hispanic neighborhood as fires burned a car an abandoned home and several dumpsters. In Pontiac Michigan a doctor who created a suicide device was charged with first degree murder for Janet Adkins death.
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Leonardo Mercado
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Baltic republics bound to Soviet Union despite treaty
Rafik Nishanov, chairman of the Council of Nationalities, said the Baltic republics remain part of the Soviet Union unless they pursue secession through constitutional procedures. He submitted the Union Treaty to the Supreme Soviet on Monday, noting that non-signatories would still be bound by Soviet law.
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Council of Nationalities
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Quake Leaves 3,000 Homeless in Kirgizia
Tass reported that a weekend earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Soviet scale left about 3,000 people homeless in the Central Asian republic of Kirgizia. No fatalities were announced by the official agency.
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Ex-President Reagan Arrives in Britain for Five Day Visit
Former President Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan arrived at Heathrow for a five day visit to Britain. The trip includes a lunch with Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace and a meeting with former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Reagan is to meet Thatcher later that day.
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Cheney warns sanctions unlikely to oust Iraq from Kuwait
In remarks to the Senate Armed Services Committee Defense Secretary Dick Cheney warned that economic sanctions may never force Iraq out of Kuwait and delaying action risks eroding coalition support for potential military force in the Persian Gulf. He argued Saddam Hussein could endure sanctions and continue military buildup. Critics pressed that sanctions should not be dismissed.
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Shuttle Target viewing scratched at Cape Canaveral
NASA astronauts on the ground worked to fix the Astro observatory aboard the space shuttle as time waned and targets slipped from the list. Star trackers in the instrument pointing system were out of alignment and undergoing fine tuning, delaying observations and forcing the use of an improvised tracker attached to a telescope.
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Court strengthens right to lawyer during police questioning
Supreme Court on Monday reinforced the right of criminal suspects to have a lawyer present when questioned by police. The ruling overturned a Mississippi death row murder conviction, holding confessions obtained without counsel may be inadmissible unless the suspect initiates contact with police after conferring with an attorney. The decision also addressed warrants for container searches and left intact a settlement easing Illinois abortion clinic restrictions. The justices rejected trials over campus performances and limited state court access to certain punitive damages.
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Mississippi
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High Court
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California Community College
First over the counter drug for yeast infections OKd
The FDA approved clotrimazole for non-prescription sale allowing millions of women to treat vaginal yeast infections directly at the pharmacy. The drug, used safely for years, is described as highly effective with minimal risk.
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Food and Drug Administration
FDA
Carl Peck
Center For Drug Evaluation and Research
Peck
Cindy Pearson
Women's Health Network
New Madrid Quake Forecast Sparks National Buzz
James Mace 54 of New Madrid amid quake talk. town of 3,200 gets national attention as officials and residents react. Climatologist Iben Browning predicts a 50 50 chance of a major quake in early December along the New Madrid Fault zone drawing mixed expert views and local disruption.
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Notable deaths and tributes roll across entertainment world
Robert Cummings dies at 80 in California after battling Parkinsons disease. Aaron Copland, dean of American music, dies at 90 after two strokes and respiratory failure. Burt Lancaster remains hospitalized after a stroke at 77 in California. Comedians Chevy Chase and Steve Martin help with Paul Simons music video in Richmond. Joe McIntyre of the New Kids on the Block hugs a heart transplant patient Nichole Duncan backstage in Birmingham.
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