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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1988
Page
3
Washington negotiators approve a welfare reform package instituting the first federally mandated work requirement for recipients. House conferees vote 26 to 8 with Senate backers in agreement, signaling a major overhaul of welfare laws.
Ailing former Teamsters President Roy Williams was released from prison after nearly three years for conspiring to bribe a U.S. senator. Paroled under a condition to continue cooperation with law enforcement, Williams has testified in two organized crime trials.
The House voted 388 to 16 to impose sanctions on Iraq as a strong bipartisan response to alleged poison gas attacks on Kurdish villages. The bill moves to conference with the Senate which had passed a stricter sanctions package earlier in the month.
At the United Nations General Assembly Eduard Shevardnadze urged the US to convert Siberian radar facilities into an international space research center and asked Washington to do the same with bases in Greenland and Britain. He blamed the US for slow progress toward a 50 percent strategic arms reduction pact.
An international panel ruled Israel must return the beachfront resort area of Taba to Egypt. The decision, considered since May 1987, will be announced in Geneva on Thursday. Israel captured Taba in 1967 and held it after Sinai’s return in 1982.
A six story apartment building collapsed in Monterrey causing two deaths and trapping about four people. At least four were rescued as debris slid down a steep mountainside, authorities said. State Attorney General Alejandro Garza Garza provided the update.
The Sejm named Mieczyslaw Rakowski prime minister by 338 to 5 with 35 abstentions in a televised ballot. He seeks two weeks to form a broader government as talks with Solidarity on economic revival and legal status begin.
U.S. counterterrorism official L. Paul Bremer warned Abu Nidal is reviving attacks with Libyan backing and that 1988 could top 1,000 incidents, making it the worst year yet. He cited 1987 as the previous high and noted rising activity in Pakistan, Peru, and Colombia.
Senator Brock Adams of Washington branded allegations that he sexually assaulted a 26 year old woman as absolutely false. He said the woman sought 400000 in hush money after the U S attorney declined to prosecute and he acknowledged an error in judgment inviting her to stay at his Washington home on March 27 1987.
President candidate George Bush proposed tax deferred interest for low and middle income Americans on long term savings deposits. The plan would let accounts earn tax deferred interest for at least five years with a maximum $1,000 yearly deposit and taxes applied on withdrawal. An example shows $1,000 at 8 percent could defer about $12 in taxes the first year for a 15 percent bracket.
Three Palestinians die after army deploys plastic bullets in Gaza and West Bank protests. Defense Minister Rabin defends the cartridges as a aid to control violence while acknowledging possible casualties. The army awaits cause-of-death determinations on the fatalities reported by Gaza and Beit El hospitals.
U S authorities faulted Continental Flight 1713 crew for not de-icing a second time after a 27 minute delay in heavy snowfall. The NTSB cited captain experience and co pilots flight role along with traffic congestion as factors in the Denver takeoff crash that killed 28 of 82 aboard.
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