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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1990
Page
3
The 1990 season’s first hurricane Bertha weakened to a tropical storm Sunday evening as it moved toward open water. Forecasters warned of high surf along the Southeast coast. Born near northeast Florida, Bertha formed Saturday with winds around 75 mph, just past hurricane strength.
After a generating plant fire cut power to 40 000 customers looting erupted Sunday night with about 15 stores ransacked. Police reported 49 arrests on looting charges Saturday night and three people died in a candle fire. Power was restored to some homes by 4 pm Sunday.
A 50,000-gallon slick from a barge rupture in Galveston Bay moved offshore Sunday as crews aimed to shield marshlands. The barge, nearly sunken, was one of two damaged after a collision with the Liberian tanker Shinoussa in the Houston Ship Channel.
A 27 year old cook Pedrito Dy was saved from the collapsed hotel ruins in a northern resort 14 days after the earthquake. He reportedly drank his own urine to stay alive while without food. This marks the third rescue at the hotel since Friday. Fujimori fires military chiefs in Peru as new president acts to control the armed forces.
Former Chancellor Bruno Kreisky, Austria’s popular postwar figure and neutral policy architect, died at 79 in Vienna after a heart ailment. Kreisky fled Nazi persecution, returned to serve as longest-serving chancellor from 1970 to 1983, expanding Austria’s mediator role.
A gunman held more than 100 hostages at a London nightclub for 10 hours on Sunday demanding a plane to Beirut. He released all captives after police persuaded him to free his final six and surrender to officers awaiting nearby.
Testimony in a federal civil case casts doubt on Vice President Bush's awareness of the air drops to Nicaraguan rebels. Retired Colonel Richard Gadd testified he was told Bush was briefed on the operation, while other witnesses denied discussing Contra aid with the vice president. The trial links to broader Iran-Contra investigations in Washington.
Nelson Mandela blamed the government for stirring fear of a Communist conspiracy as he launched the SACP’s return to mainstream politics in Soweto. About 35,000 people attended the rally at a football stadium, with Mandela defending the ANC against claims of unilateral action and clarifying it is not a Marxist movement.
Oregon’s bid to ration Medicaid by a 1600 procedure list faces a possible delay up to a year. The plan would fund only prioritized preventive care while removing coverage for costly or rare operations. Officials cite incomplete information as the reason for the postponement and say the list may reach the Legislature in early 1991.
Manuel Noriega’s longtime banker Amjad Awan and five others were convicted in a Tampa federal court in a case tying $32 million in cocaine profits to Colombia’s Medellin cartel. The verdict concludes seven days of deliberations in a six month trial linking BCCI executives to money laundering. Each faces up to five years on the conspiracy charge and up to 20 years on individual counts.
Washington AP. The HEAF crisis mirrors thrift failures with fraud tax and regulatory risk. HEAF guarantees 8.8 billion in loans about 17 percent of the national total. A default could jeopardize the entire student loan program and shake markets amid fears of a widening federal deficit and broader agency failures.
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