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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1990
Page
3
Carl Spitz Channell the first to plead guilty in the Iran Contra affair died of pneumonia after recovering from a car accident. He had pleaded guilty in 1987 to using a tax exempt foundation to raise funds for the Nicaraguan Contra rebels. He died at George Washington University Hospital.
Washington informs Moscow it is prepared to halt chemical weapons production on a mutual date to enable a pact at the summit in three weeks between President Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, according to administration officials.
Rafael Angel Calderon assumed the Costa Rican presidency from Oscar Arias and framed his aim as building a stable democracy to become a world power of disarmament and human rights. He promised a national consensus government with private enterprise driving economic democracy.
A boiler room fire on the destroyer Conyngham 80 miles off Norfolk left one sailor dead and 12 injured. Lt. Algernon Pope Gordon Jr. of Montgomery, Alabama, is named the deceased as the 360 crew worked two hours to control the blaze and tow the ship to Norfolk. The incident prompted Navy and Defense Department briefings and hotlines for next of kin.
EPA plans to label secondhand cigarette smoke a known carcinogen and estimate over 3,000 non smoker lung cancer cases annually. Draft risk assessment and a workplace exposure guide will seek public comment before peer review by the Science Advisory Board, as tobacco interests push back.
A California firm report prepared for the oil industry says gasohol would reduce carbon monoxide by 25 percent but raise nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons, increasing smog by about 6 percent. The measure faces Senate action under an amended Clean Air Act. Renewable Fuels Association disputes the study citing test conditions as non-representative.
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein claimed scientists made high tech capacitors like those halted by a London Heathrow sting. He displayed two devices at a Baghdad rally and said not all crossed the Atlantic. He warned Western powers sought to curb Arab tech and vowed to respond with nerve gas if Iraq was attacked.
North’s private notebooks show a meeting with Vice President George Bush hours after he met congressmen in 1986 over the Iran Contra affair. The Bush session’s purpose is unclear and may be unrelated to Iran Contra. The release sheds light on undisclosed meetings with Reagan officials.
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