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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1988
Page
3
President Zia ul Haq announced that November elections will forbid campaigning on party lines. Campaigns may not be conducted on the basis of party affiliation. He set November 16 as the election date and sought to clarify election rules. Partisan campaigning has not been allowed for 18 years.
Armenians did not join a Thursday strike over Moscow's rejection of Armenia’s demand to annex a region in Azerbaijan. State media said the government was tightening control after five months of labor unrest causing millions in lost production. A large crowd gathered in Yerevan after work for the third night.
Two Roman Catholic nuns Patricia Hussey and Barbara Ferraro resigned from the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in Charleston after six weeks of a dispute over pro abortion views. They said they will remain in the Roman Catholic church and cited renouncing differences and limits of religious membership in a patriarchal church.
In northern California a heat wave with 100 degree plus temperatures has 2,000 firefighters battling two arson fires near Railroad Flat Calaveras County. The blazes have destroyed four homes burned 10 750 acres and caused about 1 million dollars in damage. Containment expected today behind 18 miles of fire breaks.
Bolivian police with DEA help captured 56 year old Suarez Gomez at a ranch in the Beni region after a nightlong trek. He is wanted in Miami on drug trafficking charges and authorities say he supplied the Medellin cartel. He faces extradition and has long been linked to political influence and corruption.
Three Palestinians were killed and 16 injured as Israeli troops clashed with demonstrators in the West Bank over an order to close Arab schools. The violence marked the second consecutive day with fatalities and followed curfews affecting about 225,000 Palestinians.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Edward Little told jurors that Edwin Meese was a sleaze as he dismissed defense hints that prosecutors shielded the attorney general. Biaggi and six others are charged with racketeering tied to Wedtech Corp. bribes for government contracts.
Iraq withholds permission for a U N military experts visit to Baghdad delaying a cease fire in the Persian Gulf war. Secretary general Perez de Cuellar seeks cooperation while Iraq demands direct talks between Iraqi and Iranian foreign ministers in New York. Iran proposes high level talks but rejects face to face meetings.
North Korea proposed that the legislatures of the two Koreas hold talks in Pyongyang to discuss a non aggression pact. South Korea in Seoul gave no immediate reaction and momentum for a breakthrough seemed unlikely amid strained relations. Seoul insists contacts be handled by the South Korean government, a stance the National Assembly backed in June.
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