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Newspaper
Mesa Tribune
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1994
Page
3
A Cuban pilot on a Cubana Airlines flight left Cuba around 3:30 p.m. and headed toward Nassau seeking asylum in the United States. No other passengers requested asylum. Pilot Miller described the lone request and noted the flight was solo in the cockpit.
Pretoria hosts Africa's largest event as Mandela inauguration attracts 190000 attendees 42 heads of state and 800 media for a 6.4 million ceremony featuring 3000 performers and 100 African drummers. Police anticipate 1 million more crowds.
U N sources in Kigali report resumed Canadian emergency relief flights into Rwanda as fighting continues and preliminary cease fire talks remain technical. Discussions focus on cease fire line patrols and neutral demilitarized zones around refugee camps and the Kigali airport.
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi travels with about 300 Libyans in a camel caravan toward Saudi Arabia and Cairo to protest U N sanctions tied to the Dec 1988 Pan Am Flight 103 bombing over Lockerbie. The Security Council imposed air, arms and diplomatic sanctions on Libya in April 1992 after Tripoli refused to extradite two suspects.
Nevada researchers report a 60 mile stretch of the Carson River and Lahontan Reservoir show the highest mercury contamination in water to date from historic mining. The three year study by scientists from the university Desert Research Institute Nevada Bureau of Mines and University of Nevada Medical School tracks spill remnants from 19th century Virginia City mining. Mercury used to separate ore metals caused widespread loss between 1860 and 1890. No health risk assessment is yet determined though exposure to mercury can damage the brain.
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