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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1990
Page
3
A car bomb exploded on a highway bridge as a police patrol passed, killing 16 and wounding at least 73 in Colombia. Authorities said no group claimed responsibility though drug traffickers have targeted police in retaliation for the anti drug campaign in Medellin.
In Athens Constantine Mitsotakis took the oath as prime minister after New Democracy won the election, ending ten months of political stalemate and marking a conservative return nine years after defeat to Andreas Papandreou's socialists.
President Mikhail Gorbachev warned in a televised address that redrawing internal Soviet borders could trigger civil war and "bloody carnage" from which the country could not recover. He noted more than 100 ethnic groups in the USSR and said reforms have sparked demands for historic lands and greater autonomy.
South African President F W de Klerk met with Desmond Tutu and other church leaders to seek an end to black factional fighting in Natal province that has killed about 400 people in two months. The latest violence left 12 dead and 200 injured since Monday night.
A bomb attack in Bombay injured 34 people as the Muslim push for an independent Kashmir escalated. Frontier guards killed seven Kashmiri militants trying to cross into Pakistan near the Kashmir valley.
Paris rejected criticism that its praise for Libyan leader Col. Muammar Gaddafi went too far after he helped free three hostages and denied paying a ransom of three warplanes for their release.
The Bush administration rejected a Soviet proposal for a temporarily dual NATO and Warsaw Pact Germany. President Bush said German NATO membership is the best long term peace guarantee, with press secretary Marlin Fitzwater confirming the stance.
Census Bureau data show 12.5 percent uninsured overall with disparities by race. Hispanic Americans have 26.5 percent without coverage in 1988, blacks 20.2 percent, whites 11.7 percent, as the Senate weighs a plan to require private or public health insurance.
President Bush declined Baltic-American pleas to recognize the Lithuanian government led by Landsbergis while expressing support for Lithuania's independence. White House officials cited policy concerns for the Soviet Union and urged quiet diplomacy to avoid destabilizing events like Hungary in 1956.
Solidarity leader Lech Walesa said he did not intend to run for president and that his remarks were misinterpreted. He claimed a newspaper report was a metaphor to press reforms and cautioned he had not spoken for office.
In Jerusalem two religious lawmakers quit the coalition, shrinking Peres's expected 61 votes in the 120 seat Knesset. President Herzog granted 15 more days to form a government as debates sharpen about Iran peace talks and minority party influence.
Benjamin Carnesolias, a former circus performer, was found guilty of assault for slashing Municipal Corrections Institution officer John Wickster on October 29 in Jackson County Missouri. The blade was not recovered.
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