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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1992
Page
8
Greenpeace and 40 activists peacefully occupied a southern Amazon sawmill for about three hours Tuesday afternoon, halting production. No police action occurred and no charges were filed, according to Greenpeace Latin America director Jose Augusto Padua.
In Geneva an enamel snuff box once made for Frederick the Great sold for 1.76 million dollars as part of a seven hour sale by a German royal house amid cash shortages. The auction drew 1,400 attendees including European and Arab nobles and raised 13.71 million dollars in total. The Thurn und Taxis princess called the result fantastic.
Desperate Somali refugees aboard a decrepit freighter reached Aden harbor after two weeks at sea. The ship carried about 2,000 people fleeing gun battles and famine, with survivors describing days without water or food and extreme danger. In Beijing, Luo Deming, a former wine factory manager, was executed for selling counterfeit Maotai wine.
NATO and the Western European Union plan a joint Adriatic patrol to enforce a U N embargo on Yugoslavia, with Romania reporting gunboat checks on the Danube. The move aims to cut off goods and fuel to Serbia and Montenegro amid the Bosnian war following the February 29 independence vote.
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