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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1990
Page
3
The Soviet government asked the Supreme Soviet for legal authority to assume broad emergency powers to curb public disorders and ethnic violence. Justice Minister Veniamin Yakovlev urged swift action while deputies from Estonia Latvia and Lithuania opposed the proposal citing regional concerns.
Several thousand East Germans filed for benefits on Monday as the country prepares to move toward capitalism. Officials said demand was smaller than expected but warned reforms could cost hundreds of thousands of jobs.
Jesse Jackson will not seek a second term as mayor of Washington DC and signals a possible third run for the Democratic nomination in 1992. He vows to work at a national level to change policy through the Rainbow Coalition focusing on tax law voter registration and housing programs. Meanwhile at Cape Canaveral poor weather scrubs shuttle Atlantis secret military mission for the fifth time with a new launch target set for Wednesday.
A brass band plays the Internationale as 22 years after entering to crush reform the Red Army begins withdrawal from Czechoslovakia. A train with 22 T-62 tanks marks the first stage of a planned three stage exit by June 30, 1991, with Hungary near agreement on a similar accord.
President George Bush told the National Governors Association that a peace dividend would not fund education reforms and that any savings from defense would go to reducing the federal debt. NGA members pressed for broader social program funding while Bush pledged leadership to keep education central in the agenda.
The Sentencing Project reports that nearly one quarter of black men in their 20s are under criminal justice control. It notes 606000 in the system last year, more than the 436000 black men enrolled in colleges in 1986, and highlights stark racial disparities in control rates versus white and Hispanic peers.
The Supreme Court refused to review two appeals challenging the Pentagon ban on homosexual service. A Wisconsin Army Reserve applicant denied reenlistment for being a lesbian and a California Navy veteran released for being gay keep the ban in place. Groups say Congress may offer a path to expanded rights.
In Penobscot Maine a town of 1200 residents plans a March 6 town meeting to consider a petition to end property taxes. The proposal would replace taxes with user fees and voluntary contributions funded by residents and local business leader Royce Perkins.
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