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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1990
Page
5
Ecopetrol confirmed militants abducted three American and two Colombian engineers at a northeastern Colombia oil field during the weekend. The hostages were part of a pilot oil extraction project. Officials said more than 1,000 people have been kidnapped in Colombia this year.
Thousands of rail workers in eastern Germany went on strike demanding protection from layoffs due to unification. The walkout began in Berlin and spread across the region, halting some trans European express trains and causing delays in neighboring countries, marking the first major action since unification on October 3.
A bomb exploded at a public meeting addressed by former Prime Minister V.P. Singh in Sitamarhi eastern India killing one person and injuring at least 31. Hindustan Times reports opponents suspected in the attack which occurred moments after Singh finished speaking and left unharmed.
About 3,000 villagers trapped two wild elephants in a field after the animals killed two farmers and damaged crops near the Sherpur frontier. Police used batons to prevent further harm as the elephants wandered from India into Bangladesh on Saturday.
Klaus Barbie, 77, a convicted Nazi war criminal, has cancer and seeks treatment from a French specialist. His lawyer described the request as a public relations ploy, and a deputy justice minister doubted it would lead to early release from life imprisonment. Barbie was convicted in 1987 for crimes against humanity and led the Gestapo in Lyon during World War II.
Prime Minister Ta deusz Mazowiecki and his government resigned after a political upset in which he finished third in the presidential race behind Lech Walesa. Stanislaw Tyminski emerged as a rival, while Walesa reacted angrily to the development.
President Bush meets Mexican President Salinas de Gortari in Monterrey to push for ending trade barriers and pursue a U.S. Mexico free trade agreement. Bush praises relations and urges a new era while noting regional and global challenges.
Britain’s leadership contest tightens with John Major gaining momentum as Margaret Thatcher’s aides signal she will back him. Heseltine remains a rival, Hurd trails, while Tory lawmakers vote amid national shock over Thatcher’s impending departure.
The 1991 budget proposal to the legislature calls for freezing 50 percent of state-owned business bank accounts by Saturday and a 10 percent defense cut. Tass reports a 1990 nine-month GDP drop of 13 billion rubles and a national deficit projected at 56 billion rubles for the year, amid shortages and black market strains.
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