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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1990
Page
3
In Brussels NATO defense ministers say the alliance will reduce the readiness of certain units and scale back training programs. The changes form part of a broader force reshaping after the collapse of Communist governments in Eastern Europe.
Three powerful bombs exploded in a fashionable Athens district before dawn injuring one person. Police stated three cars with Greek license plates were destroyed and it was unclear whether the explosives were placed in or under the vehicles.
A Paris court ordered Jean Marie Le Pen to pay one franc to each of 11 religious and human rights groups after he called Nazi gas chambers a detail in World War II history. The trial took place in Nanterre near Paris with Judge Lefoyer de Costil presiding.
Lithuania’s Parliament proposed suspending some laws passed after declaring independence on March 11 but not the declaration itself. Officials said Soviet energy sanctions five weeks in force would force all but emergency vehicles off the roads by the weekend.
Health Secretary Louis Sullivan plans to ask states to ban cigarette vending machines and curb youth sales. He will present the proposal at a Senate Finance Committee hearing amid unidentified government sourcing.
Denver police and NBC investigate a KCNC-TV allegation that a staged dog fight between two pit bulls was used for a news report. KCNC-TV says it received a videotape of the event by mail.
Neil Bush, on the congressional panel probing Silverado Banking's collapse, defends his Silverado board role and says loans to developers Kenneth Good and Bill Walters did not create a conflict of interest. Regulators accuse nondisclosure of ties between Bush's oil ventures and Silverado borrowers.
Directors of the three U.S. nuclear weapon labs told Congress that all SRAM A missiles carried on alert by B 1 B 52 and FB 111 bombers should be retired and stored due to unacceptable safety risks of accidental fires and dispersal of radioactive W 69 warhead material.
A Laval University study of 12 identical twin pairs shows that excess calories converted to fat or lean tissue varies greatly between individuals. After 84 days of 1000 extra daily calories with little exercise, weight gain ranged from 9 to 29 pounds. Researchers say storage pattern is the key difference in weight outcomes.
The Senate, urged by police, voted 52 to 48 to maintain curbs on nine semiautomatic weapons as part of an omnibus crime bill. The vote setback the NRA and aligned with Fraternal Order of Police support, while the Bush administration opposed the restrictions. The legislation also calls for a broad crime bill including the death penalty for 30 federal crimes and a Memorial Day recess deadline looms.
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