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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1989
Page
3
Riot police beat protesters with clubs and formed human cordons to drive about 2,000 activists from Wenceslas Square after five days of demonstrations demanding greater human rights in Czechoslovakia.
Officials put riot damage to buildings under 1 million as investigations probe underlying causes of the uprising sparked by a Hispanic officer shooting an unarmed black motorcyclist. One man died seven were shot and about 370 jailed mostly looters under 18 police said.
Stockton police say Patrick Purdy had no grudge against a specific group, describing him as a loner with a hate for everybody. In Tuesday's attack at Cleveland Elementary School five children died and thirty others were wounded before Purdy killed himself.
Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze said 50 000 Soviet troops leaving Eastern Europe will depart with all their organic arms including tactical nuclear systems. He pledged a Kremlin timetable for troop removal and cited a 35 nation human rights accord reached at Vienna.
Richard Darman told the Senate committee no new taxes unless a severe crisis leaves no alternative. He said any exception would only occur to protect economic health and rejected plans to evade the pledge by naming taxes differently. He stressed the president’s credibility and said he was closing the door on new taxes.
The Labor Department reports consumer prices rose 4.4 percent in 1988 matching 1987 but driven by higher food costs amid a summer drought. Energy costs rose only 0.5 percent. Excluding food and energy inflation rose from 4.2 to 4.7 percent with modest late-year gains.
President Reagan authorized five U.S. oil firms to resume Libyan operations with conditions on hiring and asset transfers. Conoco Marathon Amerada Hess Occidental and W R Grace may run concessions or sell assets to foreign buyers, ending sanctions that had allowed Libyan profit from U.S. oil equity, reducing Gaddafi’s windfall and protecting U.S. interests.
New York The government approved a pioneering gene transfer trial to mark and monitor tumor infiltrating leukocytes in cancer patients. Researchers will insert a bacterial gene into patients’ white blood cells to track treatment effectiveness, with trials expected in two to three months.
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