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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1990
Page
3
Boris Yeltsin told Soviet television that Russia will sharply restrict payments to the national budget as it seeks greater independence. Russia’s parliament recently declared itself sovereign though not independent and claimed power to overturn Soviet law.
North Korean schoolchildren marked the 40th anniversary of the Korean War with vows to avenge murders by U.S. troops. In Pyongyang, about 200,000 people gathered to denounce U.S. imperialists and their allies for past disasters and alleged nuclear provocation.
Congress approved the Amtrak legislation by voice vote in both chambers and sent it to the White House. The bill caps federal subsidies at 684 million dollars for the current year and 712 million for fiscal 1992, removing the railroad anti takeover provision that had drawn President Bush’s veto. In Enfield Connecticut, about 400 inmates rioted at Carl Robinson Correctional Institution injuring a guard and causing buildings to burn.
President Bush publicly pressed Nelson Mandela to renounce violence during Mandela’s world tour stop at the White House. Mandela rebutted that Bush misreads South Africa while private talks yielded broad agreement on most differences. Mandela prepared to address a joint meeting of Congress at 11am.
A bomb exploded at the Carlton Club in London injuring four people including an 82 year old House of Lords member. Two American tourists were lightly hurt by flying glass as Scotland Yard investigated the attack and warned of a new dimension in the IRA campaign. Prime Minister Thatcher condemned the assault as terrorist inhumanity.
R Gene Simmons was executed by lethal injection in Warner Arkansas for the Christmas 1987 murders in Russellville that killed 16 people, many of them relatives. He killed 21 people by gun, club, stabbing or strangulation in a west central Arkansas spree. He told a hostage it was over before the end.
Life magazine reports a photographer used infrared gear to film the annual Poe grave visit in Baltimore on January 19. The imposing cloaked figure leaves three roses and cognac each year since 1949, and the photographer waited from Westminster Hall to shoot the lone image.
Three consumer groups urged the federal government to investigate rollover problems with about 300 000 Jeep CJs built 1971 to 1986. They accuse Chrysler of withholding safety documents while Chrysler calls the charges baseless and says the CJ is a safe vehicle. NHTSA already has internal AMCI documents and is reviewing new material.
A lakeside tram fell 120 feet down a hillside near Osage Beach injuring four passengers aged 63 to 80. One survivor suffered a broken neck. Investigators from the Missouri State Water Patrol pursued the cause as the tram, active fewer than six weeks, transported riders to the Swiss Village Restaurant from the lakeside incline.
Japan said it would kill 300 whales in 1990 for scientific purposes, matching last year. The figure, to be submitted to the IWC meeting in the Netherlands, would allow a fourth straight year of authorizations under the 1986 moratorium. Ecologists and others accuse Japan of commercial hunting under a scientific banner. The Whale Research Institute sold over 600 tons of meat from 330 whales caught in 1989 90.
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