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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1990
Page
3
Ion Iliescu said protests threaten anarchy and a new dictatorship and reported the Provisional Council of National Unity's plan to draft a law boosting powers of security forces to defend institutions and citizens against violent acts.
New York to Los Angeles stations broadcast Vremya in a two week test begun Feb 12 coordinated by WGBH Boston. The program uses a translator and features a Russian anchor addressing viewers as comrade.
Vaclav Havel, the dissident turned president of Czechoslovakia, arrives in Washington for talks with President Bush. The visit signals Western backing for Prague’s reform push ahead of June elections and potential U.S. aid and economic integration steps including IMF status and MFN trade.
In Nicaragua the Sandinista Youth backs President Ortega with a sex oriented campaign to win the teen and young adult vote ahead of the Feb 25 election. Delgado, 28, leads the youth arm as banners promise a fun future, while inflation and war Erode daily life for 3.5 million people. Membership has surged to about 50,000 in two months.
AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland said union leaders will not be intimidated by a letter campaign urging neutrality on abortion. The Executive Council skipped voting on pro-choice resolutions and created a 14 member committee to decide if the federation should take a position on abortion. Some letters warned dues could be withheld if a pro-choice stance was adopted.
Flooding across the South caused at least six deaths and hundreds evacuated in Mississippi Alabama Georgia and North Carolina. Meanwhile heavy snow blanketed the West closing 200 miles of Interstate 40 from Kingman to Winslow and plunging Flagstaff and Grand Canyon area into deep snow.
A decade long federally funded probe concludes acid rain causes environmental harm but far less than first feared. National program director James Mahoney notes ongoing issues while about 700 scientists from 30 countries gathered to prep a final report for Congress, with findings marked by uncertainty and some criticism of premature conclusions.
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