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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1992
Page
5
Former President Richard Nixon volunteers to press the Bush administration’s Russia aid bill on Congress. He targets Republicans wary of big spending while Democrats demand a domestic jobs program in exchange for support, shaping a partisan push on the aid package.
Four gunmen on motorcycles killed senior Mafia investigator Inspector Giovanni Lizzio as he drove home in Catania. Lizzio, 46, was hit in the chest and head and died at Cannizzaro Hospital. Police called it a likely act of defiance against the anti Mafia crackdown.
Washington Post reports that in October 1984 CIA director William Casey flew to a Pakistani base near Islamabad aboard a special C-141 and met with generals to plan an intensified covert war in Afghanistan. He urged extending combat into Soviet territory and spreading propaganda, with thousands of Korans and Uzbek nationalist materials supplied through Pakistan.
In Moscow the Democratic Russia movement faces internal rifts as radical members accuse Boris Yeltsin of slow reforms. Led by Marina Salye, the radicals want faster moves toward market reforms and a left-leaning balance to counter perceived right-wing conservatism within government and society. They urge a constitutional convention and accuse officials of delaying democratic change.
Ten instructors at the Totsuka Yacht School received suspended prison terms after four students died from beating and drowning and two more went missing. Koji Yoshikawa aged 21 died in 1980 and Makoto Ogawa aged 13 died in 1982. judge Hiroshi Kojima found director Hiroshi Totsuka guilty of the most serious charge.
U N relief officials said they will air drop food and medicine to thousands of Muslim refugees in Gorazde after land routes failed. The besieged city near the Serbian border has faced heavy shelling and shortages, with about 70,000 trapped residents amid a broader Balkan war.
Colombian authorities report Pablo Escobar has scaled back surrender terms from returning to the ranch jail to unconditional surrender. He seeks to serve in Antioquia, receive family visits, and have guards from military units rather than police. The government fired two high ranking soldiers over last week's prison escape.
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