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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1990
Page
3
Lithuania’s No. 2 Communist Party official said Mikhail Gorbachev failed to sway leaders from their plan to break from the Soviet Communist Party and seek local independence. Gorbachev vowed not to interfere.
The Medellin cartel abducted Alvaro Diego Montoya, son of German Montoya Barco's secretary general, as he left Dec. 20 offices in Bogota. Police said the group acted in retaliation for a government crackdown on drug lords.
East Germany releases former leader Erich Honecker from house arrest at age 77 after the new government found no legal basis for the confinement. Honecker had been confined since December 5 amid corruption and abuse of power charges, according to Helmut Nettweg, chief of the national criminal police.
A protest organizer said Azerbaijani demonstrators began retreating from the Soviet Iranian border on Thursday after four days of attempts to force the frontier open. The KGB sent border troops on Wednesday to prevent protesters from smashing guard towers and security alarms.
Beverly Black, 32, of Pensacola, was given an 18 month prison term after pleading no contest to delivery of cocaine and contributing to a minor's delinquency. The case is described as the first of its kind in Florida. Delta Air Lines delayed details while increasing security after a general threat to trans Atlantic flights. passengers offered reservation cancellations.
Northwest Airlines Flight 5 lost the right tail engine after takeoff from Miami bound for Minneapolis, forcing an emergency landing in Tampa. No injuries were reported among 139 passengers and six crew. NTSB investigators cited a lavatory leak and a shifted sealing ring as possible causes while locating the missing 3,500 pound engine with radar aid.
Yellowstone National Park rangers searched for a coyote that mauled 27 year old Brian Dean of Oak Lawn Illinois in a cross country ski attack. Dean received head neck and arm wounds and was listed in good condition at Bozeman Deaconess Hospital as doctors consider rabies treatment. The park spokeswoman said the incident was the most severe in years and warned that aggressive coyotes have appeared recently and that if the animal is captured it will be destroyed for testing.
King County issues new health regulations requiring crack house operators to obtain a permit and allow inspections or face up to ten thousand dollars in daily fines. The rules, effective April 1, enable police to gain entry for health inspections and evidence gathering to close drug dens. A one hundred dollar review fee applies.
Officials say at least 210 people were killed and 700 injured when a 16 car passenger train was diverted onto a freight track and collided in a village station. Soldiers used torches to cut into crushed cars as television showed rows of bodies wrapped in blankets near the wreckage.
A California doctor is investigated after speeding labor at Covenant Birthing Center to deliver Myra Kristine Palmer 15 seconds after midnight. The baby was displayed on a national TV service at Melodyland Christian Center next door. No clear violation claimed. authorities say a concern exists.
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