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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1989
Page
3
Hong Kong customs officers confiscated 448 ivory tusks and related products worth 2.6 million dollars. The 10,874 pounds were packed as watches for export and found during a cargo terminal inspection at the city’s airport.
Eight people burned to death in a head on crash on state Route 84 Alligator Alley about 44 miles east of Naples. A pickup truck collided with a car killing seven. a second car struck the wreckage but its occupants were unharmed.
Izzy Stone a lifelong advocate of civil rights and critic of U.S. war policy died after a brief hospital stay. The Philadelphia born editor of I F Stone's Weekly and longtime Nation contributor leaves a widow Esther and three children.
Beijing announced new foreign travel restrictions to keep dissidents from leaving the country and to tighten border controls after a crackdown on protests. Radio Beijing said all leaving documents must be renewed, while six more arrests were reported as campus leaders and workers face charges linked to the democracy movement.
In Omaha two OPPD workers crawled from an underground utility switching vault after a blast that cut power to downtown. A third was carried out. all were taken to hospitals in critical condition with severe burn injuries. The cause remains under investigation.
Moscow report says prosecutors are pursuing builders for shoddy work blamed for hundreds of new buildings collapsing in the Armenian earthquake. Socialist Industry cited construction using garbage and an empty bucket instead of concrete. The Dec. 7 quake killed about 25,000 and left 500,000 homeless. A government commission handed findings to prosecutors.
An Afghan airliner crashed near Zabol Iran during a hijacking attempt with three armed assailants. Four people died and 34 were injured including the pilot and co pilot. Officials reported multiple fatalities among a woman and three children. Afghan figures conflict over passengers freed and hostages held during the incident.
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