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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1990
Page
3
Ayatollah Ali Khomeini praised millions of dollars in foreign aid received after the earthquake that killed about 40,000. Speaking at a Tehran mosque he thanked Muslim and other countries for their sense of responsibility and aid.
In San Pedro de Lovago Nicaragua about 100 top Contra commanders led by Israel Galeano handed in their weapons to President Violeta Chamorro ending the civil war that has killed about 30,000 people. Government spokesman Danilo Lacayo called it the end of the war.
Juergen Hippenstiel Imhausen a West German businessman was sentenced to five years in prison by a Mannheim court for helping Libya build a plant clearly intended to produce chemical weapons. Prosecutors described him as a merchant of death for violating export laws.
Vigilantes with automatic rifles patrolled the capital while soldiers held people at gunpoint in a stadium to try to stop rioting, the worst in Zambia’s history. At least 23 people were killed as protests spread to smaller cities on the third day of unrest.
The Louisiana Legislature passed the strictest abortion bill, sending it to Governor Buddy Roemer who has vowed a veto. The measure imposes up to ten years in prison with no rape or incest exceptions for doctors performing abortions.
NASA announced a focusing flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope that cannot be repaired from the ground. The defect degrades several instruments, with two cameras most affected, delaying key space-viewing observations until a maintenance mission in 1993, though NASA may push for an earlier flight.
Rasheeda Moore testified that she and Marion Barry used cocaine marijuana and opium together over 100 times between 1986 and 1988 and that he admitted a cocaine addiction He described a sexual relationship and drug sharing with the mayor and said he baked cocaine into crack and smoked it Moore also noted Barry’s arrest night FBI videotape is to be used as evidence in the case against him for cocaine possession and related charges.
Nelson Mandela silent at Martin Luther King Jr. tomb as Coretta Scott King and Rev. Joseph Lowery publicly back his stance against violence in South Africa. Mandela asserts one person one vote is needed, while King III says Mandela seeks nonviolent paths despite SA government pressure.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission proposed exempting very low level radioactive materials from regulation. The plan would permit recycling or landfill disposal with scrutiny. Anti nuclear activists urged Congress to remove all five NRC members. Low level waste from plants, research and medicine could reach 30 percent of regulated material.
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