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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1990
Page
3
Josef Petracek chief of Teplice police in northern Czechoslovakia shot himself Friday morning after officers nearly clashed with demonstrators in November. He left a note saying he could not stand being blamed for the incident. CTK reported.
About 50 Ku Klux Klan members and supporters gathered peacefully at the Georgia state Capitol while 2,400 law officers kept roughly 100 counterdemonstrators away. The security event coincided with recent mail bomb threats targeting judges and city leaders in the Southeast. A separate report notes a British Airways Boeing 747 made an emergency landing at Logan Airport in Boston after a bomb threat.
Loyal Lithuanian Communists met with President Mikhail Gorbachev behind closed doors in Moscow as dissidents seek to keep Lithuania aligned with Moscow amid a split within the Lithuanian Communist Party. Delegations and rallies reflect the tension over independence and unity. Gorbachev plans to visit Lithuania amid ongoing talks with party leaders.
A minister described Jeffrey Lundgren a former RC Church lay minister turned cult leader who taught that Jesus would destroy outsiders but spare his followers. Eight followers arrested. Lundgren, his wife, a son and two others remained at large as police search a farm where the group lived until 1989 in Kirtland Ohio.
Polish Communist leaders voted to dissolve the party at a late January congress and create a new leftist party with a renamed platform. The plan aims to restore credibility after four decades in power as Poland shifts away from communist rule toward a social democratic left.
In Revere funeral services for Charles Stuart take place as divers search the Pines River for the gun used in the killings of his wife Carol and unborn child. Matthew Stuart reveals his brother’s alibi collapse while authorities investigate a cocaine treatment note.
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