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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1990
Page
5
Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos told his party its political monopoly will end and that Marxist economics must give way to free market and democratic socialism. He was unanimously reelected at the party congress but faces hard-line resistance to reforms.
A United Nations General Assembly committee adopted a resolution urging Iran to end human rights abuses while Amnesty International reported more than 5000 executions in the past three years. The draft avoided harsher language to keep Iran cooperative with U N investigations and Red Cross prison visits.
President Gorbachev outlined a plan to curb black marketeering and boost winter food imports, urging citizens to garden. He proposed a vice presidency and Security Council, with constitutional changes to be debated by the Congress of Peoples' Deputies on December 17, amid questions about details and functions of new bodies. He cited roughly $1.2 billion in food spending for early 1991 under foreign aid deals.
John Major condemned racism after a Cheltenham Conservative group faced backlash over selecting John Taylor, a 38 year old black solicitor, as their general election candidate. Critics argued he was an outsider in the largely white district, while Taylor has served as a Home Office adviser and ex councilor from Solihull.
Bangladesh President Hussein Mohammed Ershad resigns after weeks of strikes and violence. He plans a special parliamentary session and invites opposition leaders to name a caretaker vice president to govern until elections. Opponents gain leverage as protests spread in Dhaka and Chittagong amid emergency measures.
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