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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1989
Page
10
The Associated Press predicts showers and thunderstorms along the East Coast from Maine to central Florida, extending west to the lower Great Lakes. Rain is also expected along the upper and central Mississippi River regions and parts of the Northeast.
The National Weather Service places a 70 percent rain chance today with southwest winds 10 to 15 mph and a high in the 70s. Tonight, expect clouds and a slight rain chance with mid 50s lows. Sunday brings a 30 percent rain chance, mostly cloudy and near 70. Monday sees showers and thundershowers with highs in the 70s and lows around 50. Tuesday forecasts showers and thunderstorms with highs in the 70s and a low near 50. Yesterday’s Bluefield temps show a 66 high and 60 low, with June 17 records of 92 high in 1952 and 31 low in 1917.
Variable cloudiness with more showers and thunderstorms across Virginia and North Carolina. Highs range from the 70s to 80s, with Virginia in the 70s to 80s and North Carolina seeing 70s in the west to 80s in the east. West Virginia has a morning shower chance and otherwise mostly cloudy skies with lower 70s highs.
Tass quoted Boris Nikipelov saying a chemical explosion at a military weapons plant near Kasli in September 1957 released two million curies of radiation. The blast produced a radioactive trail 105 kilometers long and up to 50 miles wide, prompting urgent evacuations of more than 10,000 people from the contaminated zone.
The Consumer Price Index jumped 0.6 percent in May led by food and beverages and a 3.9 percent gasoline rise. Analysts say inflation remains tenacious, likely keeping Fed easing distant while housing starts fell for the fourth straight month to 1.31 million units.
In Hallandale Florida two robbers escaped after a shootout that wounded officer Lt. David Miles and left an accomplice dead. A getaway driver was arrested outside City National Bank of Hallandale after his car was hit by police fire. SWAT later searched the building from a helicopter and found no one inside.
House members restricted special interest exemptions in the 157 billion S&L rescue bill before midnight. Provisions favoring Sears Citicorp Chemical Bank of New York Merrill Lynch Paine Webber and others were removed, likely to be revived in conference with the Senate. House Speaker Foley and Rep Gonzalez aim for Bush signature by July 4 as negotiators meet.
Beijing framed its response as a moral test, with government spokesmen admitting for the first time a split among Communist Party officials over how to handle the uprising. Nearly 100 more protesters were arrested nationwide, while Western reporters were expelled and officials claimed soldiers did not fire inside Tiananmen Square.
Bush administration grants refuge to at least two Chinese diplomats based in the United States as Beijing suppresses protests. State Department officials say additional officials have sought protection, with no asylum decisions yet announced. A wider policy allows Chinese citizens in the U S to remain until June 1990 while Baker works on the Fang Lizhi shelter case.
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