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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1988
Page
3
President elect George Bush's son John E. Bush and his 12 year old grandson George visited Armenia's earthquake zone. They delivered candy and gifts to injured children in Spitak and at Children’s Hospital No. 3 in Yerevan after touring the disaster area aboard a DC 8 relief flight.
Police report 12 Sinhalese extremists were fatally hurt in separate incidents in Hakmana Wellawaya and Akuressa after militants raided a Matale tea plantation and torched 10 Tamil homes. The violence marks the worst flare since Premadasa’s Dec elections.
Communist rebels freed six sergeants captured in September raids in Malinao village about 70 miles southeast of Manila. Euclides Abcede, the former mayor who negotiated, said the hostages were in good condition and taken to Lucena City where families greeted them. The rebels predicted total victory within the next decade.
In Dallas three abortion clinics were set ablaze within an hour on Christmas morning. Fire units responded to North Dallas Women's Clinic Fairmount Center Clinic and A to Z Women's Health Services. Arson is suspected as investigators probe the causes.
Inmates at the Hall County jail rioted to protest overcrowding Christmas weekend. Sheriff Dick Mecum said no injuries occurred and the disturbance caused extensive damage to the maximum security block. About 70 rioters were moved to another facility, reducing the jail population to 175 from its 145 capacity.
FBI counterintelligence chief Oliver Revell said investigators are convinced the telephoned threat to Pan Am flight was a hoax and not linked to the Lockerbie crash. He ruled out the Beirut station chief on the aircraft and noted explosion likely caused the disaster. Soldiers and volunteers continued to search Lockerbie for clues and victims, with no new bodies found.
Egypt's Hosni Mubarak says he would visit Israel if it advances a just peace, while Israel's Yitzhak Shamir and Shimon Peres welcome the idea and pledge to pursue a new Middle East initiative along Camp David lines. Mubarak has not visited Israel since 1981 and has met Peres but not Shamir in recent years.
A propane truck exploded on Interstate 240 in Memphis after skidding from a 25 mph ramp. The driver Randall Benson 29 of West Memphis Ark died along with eight others including residents and other motorists. NTSB says truck passed inspection a day earlier and investigation may take nine months.
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