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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1989
Page
3
Grenada's ruling New National Party ousted Prime Minister Herbert Blaize at a party convention, naming Keith Mitchell as the new party leader by a 190 to 154 delegate vote. Blaize remains PM until elections due by December.
Grieving relatives and friends gathered at memorials to mourn five schoolchildren slain by a troubled drifter in camouflage. Cleveland Elementary School principal Patricia Busher urged resilience as authorities described the Tuesday killings and wounding of 29 students and a teacher. A separate Washington report noted GOES-6 satellite failure interrupted viewing of Western U S cloud imagery, attributed to old age by NOAA staff.
Guards restored order at the Lorton prison complex after a Friday night disturbance left Andre Drake 26 dead and Jerry Gill 36 wounded. Inmates started fires damaging an administration building and a dormitory. no escapes reported and police assisted after the event.
West Germany's Foreign Ministry ordered its three Kabul diplomats to depart due to rising violence and worsening conditions as Soviet troops withdraw. The embassy will operate at a reduced level with minimal local staff, and sources say it may be the first foreign mission in Kabul to close amid the crisis. The flight by the diplomats went to New Delhi.
A year end Izvestia assessment says Gorbachev's restructuring and acceleration policy delivered little in 1988 as food and consumer goods shortages persist. Officials cite Afghanistan, Armenia, Chernobyl, and oil prices as factors while stressing domestic industry must lead recovery. Total agricultural output rose 0.7 percent versus a 6.6 percent plan target. Industrial output up 3.9 percent, national income 4.4 percent.
A 12 year old girl named Kashaine Green was shot in the neck and killed near her home in Brooklyn while talking with friends when she accidentally walked into a drug related dispute on a sidewalk. Police say the shooting occurred around 7 20 p.m. EST and marks the third nearby bystander killed in early 1989.
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