East German Parliament Debates Corruption Scandal and Leader’s Guilt
East Germany’s Parliament heard accusations of massive corruption within the ruling Communist Party. Leaders allegedly amassed billions in Swiss bank accounts, funded luxury lodges and homes, while preaching austerity. Party chief Egon Krenz accepted responsibility but sought to separate the new leadership from the ousted Honecker era. The inquiry named Erich Honecker’s successors as implicated, with calls for expulsion and further investigations. Public distrust grows as anti-Communist sentiment spreads nationwide.
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East Germany
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Singh sworn in as prime minister in India's first minority government
Vishwanath Pratap Singh, 58, sworn in as prime minister leading the five party National Front coalition. He must form a cabinet and seek a confidence vote from Parliament within 30 days as voters in a landmark election, the first since martial law ended in 1987, cast ballots across the country amid heavy turnout.
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Nuclear plant shut down over safety at Rocky Flats
The federal government halted operations at the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant in Golden Colorado to address safety questions including potential plutonium dust buildup in pipes. Energy Secretary James Watkins announced a major management shakeup and said the plant would not reopen until safety concerns are resolved with the contractor EG G Inc. A long term shutdown could affect the United States nuclear weapons capability. the plant uniquely makes plutonium triggers.
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Medicare Spending Cuts Proposal in 1991 Budget
The White House budget office seeks about 3.5 billion dollars in cuts to health and social programs for fiscal 1991. Most savings come from reducing Medicare spending by 8 billion compared with current law, per budget documents.
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White House
Comaneci Defects to America After Olympic Fame
Nadia Comaneci, the Romanian gymnast famed for her 1976 Olympic performances, has defected and arrived in the United States. At JFK Airport she expressed happiness to be in America and said she wanted a free life, after contacting a U.S. embassy in Europe and fleeing via the Pan Am plane Liberty Bell from Vienna.
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Comaneci Considers Defection Amid Refugee Status Talk
The State Department deputy spokesman Richard Boucher said morning she was “eel gamed refugee status” and Comaneci answered that she had thought about defecting for a few years. She has traveled abroad often since becoming the first gymnast to score two perfect 10s at the Olympics.
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Gorbachev Bush hold talks aboard liner near Malta
Gorbachev and Bush met aboard a Soviet liner off Malta as talks signaled a push for a Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty and possible troop reductions in central Europe. The leaders discussed East European changes and a potential summit in Washington next spring. Weather forced a shift of sessions to the Maxim Gorky amid gale winds.
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Library Returns Book to Beijing School During Turbulent Times
Patty Vilelio head of the city school district library system kept a book from a Beijing school. She read passages recalling martial law terror and returned the book with a note in September. The Beijing director Richard C Chesley thanked her in October and noted the student may have evacuated early with the book.
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Vilello
Beijing
United States
Richard C. Chesley
Prague reforms blueprint signals new government path
Vasil Mohorita, a Politburo member, unveiled an action program for the Communist Party that meets opposition demands and shifts the party stance on the 1968 Prague Spring. The draft rejects justification of the Warsaw Pact invasion, pledges no decision yet on ending direct Communist workplace control, and promises non interference with the media.
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Czechoslovakia
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Communist Party
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Aquino Issues Ultimatum After Sangley Point Clash
In Manila area clashes, Aquino demands surrender or death for rebels after taking part in an assault on Sangley Point air station. Legazpi associate tied to 1987 coup scroll, four captured with him. Nationalists condemn U.S. help calls as betrayal. Gunships press attacks as F-5s strafe near Camp Aguinaldo. Six pro-government deaths and twenty wounded among troopers.
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Bitterly cold with snow likely this weekend
Bitterly cold tonight and Sunday with significant snow accumulations expected. Temperatures will stay in the teens as the storm moves through the area.
Winter storm watch bulges over Central New York region
Heavy snow and cold air loom as a winter storm watch is posted for tonight and Sunday by the National Weather Service at Hancock Airport. A low near Lake Huron moves southeast toward New England, bringing 15 to 25 degree below zero wind chills and lake snow for Central New York.
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