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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1988
Page
3
Burma released 51 detainees linked to last week’s anti-government protests that triggered President Sein Lwin’s resignation. In Rangoon, student leaflets urged new demonstrations as Burma’s one party state faced pressure from diplomats and journalists.
Two young Americans Stephen Koneman aged 22 and Jason McLachan aged 21 were released by leftist guerrillas in Colombia after more than ten months in the Amazon jungle. They said they were geographers captured on October 8 while canoeing, and the guerrillas reportedly mistook them for CIA agents. The release was confirmed by the U.S. Embassy.
Bishop College a historically black university founded by freed slaves and once the largest west of the Mississippi has been shut by bankruptcy after 108 years. UNCF official Harriet Schimel called the closure a tragedy for educating disadvantaged and minority students. The second item reports San Francisco offering a 17312 settlement to a blind stockbroker Raygena Harper over a humiliation incident involving a police officer and her guide dog in September 1985.
Nelson Mandela, 70, is bedridden with tuberculosis in Cape Town's Tygerberg Hospital after transfer from Pollsmoor Prison. Doctors report an inflamed left lung and improving condition, while Mandela's family seeks independent medical review and calls for his release.
Israeli troops fired on hundreds of rioting Palestinians at Ketziot prison camp in the Negev, killing two and wounding a third as a military curfew kept 650000 Gazans at home. Clashes in Gaza and the West Bank injured several others, with hospital reports noting dozens of injuries.
A librarian in Crimea reports that Izvestia describes a Moscow directed order for libraries in several cities to remove political and economic works written before 1985. The purge targets Brezhnev Chernenko Suslov Grishin and other pre Gorbachev texts, labeling past eras as stagnant. The move sparks questions about censorship and the reopening of historical archives.
Fans flocked to Graceland on Elvis Presley s 11th death anniversary amid heat in the high 90s. More than 70 flower stands lined the grave path while 3,000 attended a candlelight vigil the night before. Organizers of Elvis International Tribute Week note a new book denying Presley s death has sparked jokes but little worry among attendees.
Locally brewed methyl alcohol liquor has killed 23 people in Bombay, with seven dying Monday and 16 Tuesday at a hospital. UNI says 26 remained hospitalized for nausea and dizziness, 12 in critical condition, as two women were arrested for selling the liquor.
Gary Dotson left Logan Correctional Center in Lincoln after serving six months for a parole violation. His attorney urges full clemency citing new DNA tests. Dotson, 31, enters a rehab program and must complete weeks of residential and outpatient treatment as a condition of release.
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