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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1990
Page
3
Vaclav Havel secured another term as president amid festive crowds outside Hradcany Castle. Thousands chanted Long live Havel as the dissident writer promised to pursue a happier future for Czechoslovakia.
Kenya's one party government arrests four more prominent dissidents including the son of a former vice president. Wives of detained opposition leaders appeal to President Moi to avoid torture as the crackdown appears the harshest since 1982.
About 5,300 rebels clashed with government troops in Monrovia suburbs as soldiers looted stores and restaurants. President Samuel Doe faced desertions from top advisers while Lt. Gen. Charles July fled, further weakening his position.
A 14,000 acre fire in Alaska forced the Alaska Highway closure near Tok and halted two nearby airports. Gov. Steve Cowper declared a statewide state of emergency and summoned the Alaska National Guard to assist firefighting efforts as fires raged across the state. Federal official Sue Mitchell of the Bureau of Land Management said the blaze neared Tok, about 175 miles southeast of Fairbanks.
Carole Bland Jackson, a business partner of Rasheeda Moore, testified that she used cocaine with Marion Barry at a 1986 party and was absolutely positive he snorted it through a straw. She is the third witness to claim seeing Barry using drugs in his drug and perjury trial.
Mitch Snyder 46 a prominent homeless advocate was found hanged Thursday in a Washington shelter. Police call it an apparent self inflicted death and notes found near his body reference a personal crisis. Autopsy planned to confirm cause. Snyder had staged a 1984 hunger strike for federal housing funds and led shelter work with longtime partner Carol Fennelly.
Reverend Jesse Jackson announced his candidacy for a new District of Columbia office called statehood senator. The role lacks budget, salary, or legislative power, but he framed it as a civil rights cause while signaling no exclusion from future presidential runs.
Albania's Foreign Ministry pledged to grant passports to hundreds of Albanians sheltering in foreign embassies as a route to flee the Communist regime. About 600 asylum-seekers were reported in 12 embassies, with 200 in West German and 100 in the French compound, amid ongoing embassy standoff.
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