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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1990
Page
3
Portland officials said Teamster leaders ordered a halt to deliveries to about 60 supermarkets being picketed by striking workers. The walkout affected roughly 5,300 grocery employees across five counties as the dispute over medical benefits and wages entered its third day.
The June federal deficit rose to 11.2 billion amid the savings and loan bailout surge, compared with a 7.8 billion surplus a year earlier. Nine months of fiscal 1990 show a 163.1 billion shortfall, well above last year's pace.
House Armed Services Chairman Rep. Les Aspin says the radar-evading B-2 Stealth bomber is prohibitively expensive and of questionable value. His stance raises the odds of cutting B-2 production funds in the House, despite administration and Senate support for buying two bombers in 1991.
The Bush administration announced approval of prototype designs for six foreign made semiautomatic rifles redesigned to remove military features. The Uzi AK-47 Galil HK-91 SAR-8 and SAR-4800 were among banned imports last year and now receive new forms without threaded barrels or folding stocks and other features.
A liberal research group reports in late 1980s data that the top 1 percent of Americans will command 12.6 percent of total after tax income in 1990, while the bottom 40 percent get 14.2 percent. The center notes the middle class share fell to postwar lows and that the richest 2.5 million hold nearly as much income as the 100 million lowest earners. Robert Greenstein links gains to capital gains tax cuts benefiting the wealthy.
Education Department officials seek urgent solutions as HEAF faces serious financial problems threatening its $9.6 billion in guarantees. Secretary Cavazos notes options to ensure new loans and continued guarantees while HEAF restructures its high risk trade school loan portfolio, which dropped to 35 percent of guarantees in 1989 from 59 percent in 1988.
Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani urged moderation in a Monday speech in Nicosia. He condemned leftist slogans and hard line opponents while promoting liberalization, a tempered revolution, and a moderate foreign policy with a laissez faire economy.
Talks with Mohawks to resume OKA as Quebec offers Monday to continue discussions about a violent clash over a golf course addition on land claimed as ancestral territory. The government invites human rights observers to attend.
Police report 21 blacks killed in Sebokeng and Evaton south of Johannesburg after a rally by Inkatha. Seventeen or more deaths occurred in running battles between Inkatha members and ANC supporters amid escalating factional violence.
Rival force led by Prince Johnson breaches Monrovia defenses advancing into the city center after wading a swamp and firing on government troops at two bridges. Taylor's forces remain stalled on the outskirts as Doe faces a potential double threat from rival rebels.
The House approved a bill to curb advertising during children's programs and to require regulators consider educational impact when renewing TV station licenses. The measure aims to roll back 1984 deregulation and would cap ads at 10 percent of weekend hour and 12 minutes per hour on weekdays, facing opposition from the Bush administration.
British and American researchers report a 1959 AIDS infection found in tissue stored 31 years, from a 25 year old sailor who died that year. The Lancet notes this as the oldest documented case, suggesting the virus circulated earlier than thought and since the early 1950s.
All 79 opposition lawmakers quit en masse as President Roh Tae woo's government and North Korea wrangled over a proposal to open the border for free travel. Kim Dae-jung’s Party for Peace and Democracy welcomed border opening but urged restraint on political use of the issue.
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