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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1994
Page
3
Gov. Lawton Chiles said the state will seek 1.5 billion dollars from the U.S. government for schooling health care and prison beds provided to illegal immigrants, calling the suit a first of its kind as Washington faced claims from Florida.
Chaos grips Kigali as fighting rages for a fifth day. Rebels of the Rwandan Patriotic Front advance and refuse cease-fire terms while government troops defend key sites. An interim civilian government is announced with Theodore Sindikubwabo as head and six ministers named.
Moscow accuses Kyiv of storming a naval base and arrests three officers in a clash over the Black Sea Fleet. Ukraine calls the claims lies and says the officers were detained for radar theft in Odessa but released after protests. Ukraine also dissolves the 318th Division to form a new security vessel unit guarding its bases and waters.
A federal survey finds 1991 welfare overpayments at 1.0 billion from 20.7 billion paid to low income families, signaling a 4.96 percent error rate the lowest on record. States with higher overpayments face 30 day corrective plans and deductions for collections. Iowa says it is not required to repay due benefits.
About 250 American troops will participate in summer joint maneuvers with the Russian military the first such exercises to be held in Russia. Denouncing the move Vladimir Zhirinovsky and other nationalists call it a sinister American plot to undermine Russia.
A federal report says without changes the baby boom aging will exhaust Social Security retirement trust fund by 2036 eight years earlier than last year. It warns disability funds could go broke in 1995 and Medicare hospital coverage may last seven more years. The programs cost over a quarter of the federal budget and inject about $1 billion daily into the economy.
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