Beijing declares death for eight amid riot crackdown
Beijing's intermediate court sentenced eight workers and five others to death for alleged involvement in the riots that damaged buses and military vehicles. The television report listed those executed and noted participation ranged from arson to looting, while authorities warned against foreign interference and reported related arrests and expulsions of reporters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beijing
Shanghai
Democracy Movement
Lin Shaorong
Zu Jianjun
Zhang Wenkui
Wang Hanwu
Chen Jian
Wang Lianxi
Luo Hongjun
Ban Huijie
United States
New China News Agency
Wang Mingzhe
China
Wang
Fang Lizhi
Li Shuxian
Marijuana ring uses cornfields to hide crop and debt schemes
The operation planted marijuana in cornfields to conceal it and used sellers with unsettled titles to avoid forfeiture. About 68 arrests led to $350 million seized, with leaders James Elder, John Boone, and Robert Shewmaker Jr. jailed or serving long sentences. Workers, mostly from Kentucky, received daily pay and lived on farms. A separate note covers a Lesbian and Gay Pride Parade in Iowa City with Democratic participation protesting civil rights protections.
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Kentucky
Marion Paul Elder
Marion
St. Mary’s
Whittle
United States
Marion County
James Harold Elder
John Robert Boone
Nelson County
Robert Joseph Shewmaker Jr
Elder
Boone
Showmaker
John Brewster
Albion
Tom Skaggs
Iowa City
Johnson County
Democratic Party
Mary Mascher
Iowa
Missouri trucker guilty of attempted murder in Des Moines shooting
Sam Lacy, 49, of Blue Springs, Missouri, was found guilty of two counts of attempted murder for the May 1988 shootings of supervisors Jack Jones and Larry Meyer at Wilson Certified Express Co. in Des Moines. Polk County District Judge Harry Perkins set sentencing for August 7.
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DES Moines
Missouri
Sam Lacy
Blue Springs
Jack Jones
Larry Meyer
Wilson Certified Express Co
Polk County
Harry Perkins
Lacy
Viola Gibson Civil Rights Activist Remembered in Cedar Rapids
Viola Gibson, a civil rights advocate and community leader in Cedar Rapids, campaigned to urge the Iowa Congressional delegation to support the 1964 Civil Rights Act. She chaired the Religious Book Study Club at Jane Boyd Community House, expanded black history in local curricula, and helped shape Oak Hill’s development. Survived by son Hugh and daughter Lillian, services are pending at Turner Chapel East.
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Iowa
Harris
Oak Hill Engineering
Vernon
Phoebe Smith
Carlisle St
Viola Gibson
Gibson
Cedar Rapids
Vernon Smith
Tyler
Washington High School
Kirkwood Community College
Esther Armstrong
34Th St
Jane Boyd Community House
Armstrong
the Gazette
Elizabeth Bender
Jane Boyd
Oak Hill
12Th Avenue
10Th Street
Hugh Gibson
Lillian VanArsdale
Turner Chapel East
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Voice of America
Beijing University
Yang Tao
Lanzhou
Chengdu
Sichuan
Allan Pessin
John Pomfret
Associated Press
Vernon Mann
John Elphinstone
Free Lancers
British Independent Television News
Gazette
Bo Bo
JTPA
Diane
Housekeeping
Lois Dennis
Benton
Johnson, Jones, Linn
Washington County
6Th Street
Blairs Ferry Rd
Council St
Phope
Second St
Banc Iov Bank
Center Pt. Rd
St. Marion
Tri-Merica Securities Corporation
Williams Blvd
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