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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1989
Page
3
Thousands of Black workers and students skipped work and classes in Soweto to observe the 13th anniversary of the 1976 riots. Police opened fire on protesting students, a turning point for the anti apartheid movement, though the government does not recognize the holiday.
A Soviet member of parliament warned at a news conference that famine will follow if radical agricultural reforms are not undertaken next year. He blamed bureaucrats for farm failures as other deputies urged reform as a top priority. Deputy Vladimir Tikhonov stated the famine risk if changes are delayed.
Athens Greece Premier Andreas Papandreou closed his campaign with a giant rally urging 500000 supporters to give the Socialist Party another term to finish reforms begun eight years ago. Polls show New Democracy leading with about 47 percent to 36 percent for the Socialists ahead of Sunday vote.
General Michel Aoun warned Christian troops would strike Syrian supply routes in retaliation for artillery fire that set a gasoline tanker ablaze near Tabarja, north of Beirut. He said roads to foreign forces’ capitals will not be safe and pledged frontline confrontation.
More than 20,000 miners in Kentucky Pennsylvania Indiana Virginia and Tennessee joined a Friday walkout directed by United Mine Workers President Richard Trumka. The strike began Monday in West Virginia in sympathy with 1,600 miners at Pittston Group operations.
Marilyn Louise Harrell nicknamed Robin HUD testified before a House subcommittee admitting she stole about 5.5 million dollars from 1985 to 1988 to aid the poor. She urged repayment even as investigators warned her testimony could invite charges. HUD inspector general Paul Adams said up to 20 million may be unaccounted for and HUD faced control failures.
Gazette wire services from Beijing report a surge in arrests of democracy movement figures with 40 detained in Chengdu and nine student leaders in Lanzhou turning themselves in. Shanghai court had handed down death sentences to three young men for a violent protest.
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