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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1989
Page
3
Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita says his scandal scarred government has lost public confidence after four cabinet resignations. He also aims to expand ties with the Soviet Union and other Asian nations and hopes Mikhail Gorbachev visits Japan in 1989.
Several hundred Tibetan university students defied a ban and marched to the regional government headquarters in Lhasa calling for a peaceful solution to the Tibetan problem. Sources said there was no police resistance or violence during the march.
The Security Council failed to agree on guidelines for a peacekeeping force to oversee elections in Namibia, seen as a setback to the territory’s transition to independence from South-West Africa.
Staff members bid farewell with a final banner headline and newsroom champagne toast as Miami's oldest daily shuts down. Editor Howard Kleinberg, in the newsroom for 38 years, says it is over and reflects that they gave it a good effort.
West Germany said early results point the bomb was smuggled aboard Pan Am Flight 103 in London rather than Frankfurt, denying a London Times report of Frankfurt origins. British and U.S. officials disputed the Frankfurt theory as inconclusive while FBI questioned Khalid Jaafar's father about possible involvement.
Federal regulators finished the last rescue for insolvent savings and loan associations before midnight, totaling 217 closures in 1988. The year saw a 50 year high with 38 billion in government costs, and Beverly Hills S&L marked the final and one of the largest bailouts, sold to Michigan National Corp. for 983 million with the buyer contributing 52 million.
The United States says a West German company, Imhausen- Chemie, led design and construction of a Libyan chemical weapons plant, a claim officials tied to German export controls. A second unnamed firm aids Libya's air to air refueling capability for Libyan fighter-bombers, threatening Israel, with details undisclosed.
In Managua President Daniel Ortega rules out negotiating with Contra factions despite U.S. backed peace proposals. He says he will present his own offer for direct talks with the United States while insisting the Contra army must be dismantled before any peace. The speech, given before Sandinista troops at the Omar Torrijos Tank Battalion HQ, features 12 Soviet T-55 tanks and marks the Revolution’s tenth year.
A tanker trailer carrying 43,000 pounds of granular sodium hydrosulfite burst into flames on Interstate 12 near Covington, forcing the evacuation of several hundred people. No injuries reported as evacuees returned home by nightfall. Officials said the material can produce irritating gas and harm skin or inhalation. The fire ebbed by midafternoon and a cause was not yet known. Hospitals were on standby for possible evacuations.
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