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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1989
Page
3
The Muslim Action Group seeks to prosecute Salman Rushdie and Viking Penguin for The Satanic Verses arguing blasphemy laws extend beyond Christianity. The group advances a challenge to a court ruling on enforced limits of blasphemy law in Britain.
Tass reported armed youths rioted in Novy Uzhen on Friday amid economic hardship in Kazakhstan. The official agency noted deaths from the unrest but did not disclose casualty figures.
The State Department accuses Nicaragua of limiting outside observation of elections by imposing visas on American citizens. President Ortega framed the move as preventing US meddling in internal affairs.
Speaker Foley signals possible Congress wide salary increase for federal judges and senior executives even if members disagree on raises for themselves. Calls for a detailed plan, with options discussed to link or offset speaking fees and other honorariums. Public pressure and ethics concerns mount after Wright affair and ongoing scrutiny by Common Cause.
Three Iowa plants appear on a NRDC list of the 125 largest U S emitters of cancer causing pollutants. The Aluminum Co of America Riverdale plant ranked eighth and released 2.33 million pounds of perchloroethylene in 1987, the highest in the nation. Monsanto Muscatine ranked 49th for 739,800 pounds of acrylonitrile. Sheller Globe Iowa City ranked 89th with 535,912 pounds of methylene chloride. The EPA classifies methylene chloride as a probable human carcinogen.
Coast Guard Commandant Paul Yost told Congress that beach cleanup from the Exxon Valdez spill is going well but requires more manpower and possible double shifts. He noted beaches will not be crystal clean by summer’s end while testifying on the 1990 Coast Guard budget. The Valdez spilled 10 million gallons after running aground March 24. captain Joseph Hazelwood faces multiple charges.
A grand jury charged Russell Baker Sr. Russell Baker Jr. of the Tampa area and Carman Eugene Alexander from Converse Indiana with nine counts of fraud. They allegedly substituted scrap metal for pure metal in military aircraft and M 1 Abrams tank parts and certified tests to meet specifications.
Wildcat strikes hit coal fields in Alabama Illinois and Ohio as 5000 more United Mine Workers members walk out in sympathy with Pittston Coal Group employees. The move brings total strikers to over 27000 across nine states with 1800 Pittston pickets remaining.
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