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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1988
Page
3
Soviet officials announced a doctor will join two cosmonauts aboard Mir to monitor their health as they pursue a space endurance record. Valery Polyakov will stay eight days while the other crew members return after eight days.
Seventeen bombs exploded in Belfast Newry and Londonderry as protesters clashed with police over the extradition of a convicted IRA guerrilla. Fifteen people were injured and three Gardaí were hurt in Dublin outside a prison where Robert Russell was held before handover. Police reported 193 attacks on police 23 shooting incidents and 56 vehicle hijackings across Northern Ireland.
Police closed a federation of 108 Palestinian charities in Jerusalem accusing it of functioning as a PLO front. In the West Bank a supposed Arab collaborator’s body was found burned and tied to an electric pole. In Qalqiliya a Jewish settler fired at youths attacking his car wounding two. Arab reports said he was not provoked.
In Vienna the first since 11 years met Romanian President Ceausescu and Hungarian Premier Karoly Grosz. They discuss Romania's plan to raze 7,000 of 13,000 villages and resettle inhabitants including ethnic Hungarians amid escalating tensions.
A federal prison escapee who held his estranged wife's boyfriend in a closet for over two days and later took the woman hostage killed himself after a 12 hour standoff in Portland. The two hostages escaped unharmed after electricity and gas were shut off and carbon monoxide likely caused the death of Herbert Lamar Weeks, 47, in the garage.
The Central Committee approved a draft resolution for broad talks on Poland's social and economic ills but dodged on including Solidarity. Lech Walesa was minorly injured in a scuffle as police blocked protesters at the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk amid potential talks with the government.
Sen. Lloyd Bentsen said Dan Quayle could grow into the presidency if needed while Quayle welcomed a debate to prove his qualifications. Bentsen noted he would not have Quayle on his short list but allowed growth potential if a crisis demanded action. Jesse Jackson backed the Dukakis-Bentsen ticket, signaling ongoing debate and a broader Democratic push for voter registration and inclusion.
Two economists warn that the next president must raise taxes due to persistent deficits and inflation. David Stockman and John Paulus call for tax increases, possibly a consumption tax, and argue Bush and Dukakis should acknowledge this now.
Divers search for three missing sailors after 21 were rescued from the sunken submarine Pacocha three miles off Callao Peru. The captain died trying to save others. three more crew members died and three remain missing presumed dead.
James Clark a 49 year old from Peninsula Ohio and a former America's Most Wanted subject was arrested in Buena Park California after a three year nationwide search Police say he stole more than $500000 from pay telephones and was taken into custody at an undisclosed Orange County residence FBI official Lawrence Lawler called him a one of a kind thief and noted the total take.
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