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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1986
Page
6
Amid a cold rain hundreds of shanties burn in Crossroads 12 miles east of Cape Town as rival black factions clash for a second day. The death toll reaches 14 with about 50 000 homeless and 20 injured including four journalists. Police deny involvement, while vigilantes known as witdoeke control most of the area.
In Johannesburg the two non-white houses of Parliament blocked new security legislation two years after their creation. President Botha faced a choice to bypass them or declare a state of emergency as protests loom around Soweto's 10th anniversary. Across regions, land mine blasts injure a white man and two black workers, Crossroads violence claims 7 more lives, and police patrols near Port Elizabeth see serious injuries.
A Finnish monitoring station near the Soviet border recorded a mysterious ten second peak of atmospheric radioactivity higher than levels after Chernobyl. Officials said the source was unknown, with possibilities ranging from a nuclear test to a power plant leak or meter fault. readings later returned to near normal.
MOSCOW AP reports Sovietskaya Rossiya says some evacuees return to the 18 mile danger zone around Chernobyl to feed geese while authorities deny looting rumors and warn against unsafe behavior. The paper notes wandering residents and a case of two old women hiding during the evacuations after the disaster. At least 92,000 people were evacuated.
Guerrillas in Peru damaged the Peru vian North American Cultural Institute and a grocery in Arequipa while Tupac Amaru hijacked two trucks carrying essentials to poor neighborhoods and filmed aid distribution. In Haiti a general strike closed most shops and schools, with unclear turnout. In London Queen Elizabeth II awarded Bob Geldof an honorary knighthood for Band Aid Live Aid and Sport Aid efforts aiding Africa.
An Air Sinai Fokker 27 diverted to Alexandria due to sandstorms caught fire and crashed near Cairo. Twenty of 25 aboard died, six survived initially, with one dying later. Survivors included Rizk Abdu Rizkallah and his newlywed wife. The plane struck a construction yard near the airport as it returned from Sharm el-Sheik.
Warsaw Pact leaders from the Soviet Union Hungary Poland East Germany Czechoslovakia Romania and Bulgaria meet in Budapest for a two day session to press NATO on large scale cuts of European conventional weapons. Gorbachev calls for radical reductions as Honecker notes concern over weapon concentrations in Europe. Negotiations have stalled for 12 years over force sizes and verification methods.
In Tripoli crowds chant patriotic songs at Green Square as ships blow sirens on the eve of Muammar Gadhafi's first public appearance in nearly two months. State TV airs a liberty themed program for the 16th anniversary of the Libyan air base takeover, while actors sing anti imperialist lines.
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