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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1990
Page
3
In two separate incidents Saturday evening and early Sunday in Harrisburg and nearby, shots damaged 36 Greyhound buses and three terminals with no injuries reported. The assaults occur amid a large strike by about 6,300 drivers and 3,000 maintenance and office workers since March 2.
Germany and West Germany discuss monetary union by July 1 with East German marks converted at parity, easing path to economic merger. In Geneva, Paulette Goddard, Chaplin co star, dies at 84 after brief illness in southern Switzerland. born 1905 per village records, with conflicting sources citing 1911 or 1915.
Friends in Fishkill BeaCon and Dutchess County plan a large homecoming for Robert Polhill the former hostage freed after more than three years in Lebanon. Mayor Carter and neighbors decorate homes with ribbons as Polhill recovers in Wiesbaden Germany. His sons head to Germany to reunite with him and he is expected to watch a Giants Broncos Super Bowl replay upon return.
President Bush signed a bill requiring the government to collect statistics on crimes related to race religion sexual orientation and ethnicity as part of the FBI crime report. He said hate crimes cannot be tolerated and announced a toll free number for reporting complaints.
Richard Ruff was given life in prison with no minimum term after being convicted of first degree felony murder in the 1957 strangling and sodomy of his cousin William Ruff Jr near Albany. The case is noted as the longest homicide investigation in state history.
A Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad freight train with ninety seven cars derailed near Craigsville Pennsylvania, igniting multiple cars. About 100000 gallons of oil leaked from four cars and a car released up to 10000 gallons of sodium hydroxide. Firefighters worked to extinguish burning tanks as heat affected nearby oil cars and some oil entered Buffalo Creek.
In Nicosia IRNA reports an Iranian hunter near Tehran was fatally shot when a snake coiled around the shotgun butt. The hunter Ali-Asghar Ahani pressed to catch the snake, the reptile’s thrashing tail pulled the trigger twice, causing a fatal head shot.
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