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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1989
Page
3
An assailant believed to be an observant Jew hurled a hand grenade at the Red Point sex shop in a downtown Jerusalem shopping center. No injuries were reported though the shop on the third floor suffered damage.
Cardinal Edmund Szoka announced that 30 Detroit city churches will close and 25 more can improve within a year. The action, the largest church retrenchment in U.S. Catholic history, follows a five year study to strengthen parishes as Catholic populations shifted outward and priest shortages rose.
In Springfield Mass the sedition trial of three remaining defendants from a large 1980s manhunt is set to begin after juror selection. Prosecutors push a terrorism charge while defense argues overreach. up to 350 witnesses may testify and the case has cost the government over 3 million dollars to date. Richard Williams and Patricia Gros Levasseur are among the remaining defendants.
Robert Hunt in Webster New York says a Scotland Yard official apologized after his daughter Karen, one of 259 victims of the Lockerbie bombing, was wrongly identified as another body. Medical examiners confirmed the body sent to the Hunts was not Karen's, as FBI officials say they do not know the fate of the misrouted remains.
Attorney General Dick Thornburgh said the Reagan administration did not try to thwart independent counsel Lawrence Walsh. He testified on ABC that Walsh assured him of full cooperation from the intelligence community and that withholding documents could erode the government's case against Oliver North.
In Amman Yasser Arafat says the December Pan Am jet attack was designed to abort Middle East peace efforts. He says he has no information blaming any party as the investigation continues. He cautions against actions by Israel and other groups to disrupt talks.
An Israeli-appointed West Bank city official, town councilor Yussef Mohammed Milhem, was stabbed in the head in the third attack on suspected collaborators in a week. Palestinians staged a general strike across the occupied territories marking 13 months of the uprising, with clashes leaving several dead or wounded.
In Clearwater Florida a jury found 16 year old Jason Harless guilty of second degree murder for the cafeteria shooting that killed assistant principal Richard Allen and wounded two teachers. Jurors deliberated about 84 hours over Saturday and Sunday before reaching verdicts on all counts.
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