University of Arizona - Desert Yearbook (Tucson, AZ)

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world News WORLD NEWS: On July 31, 1990 English Conservative member Ian Gow was killed in a car bomb explo- sion as he started up his car. The IRA responded by taking responsibility for the action. Gow was known for his strong views against the IRA and their terrorist acts. Due to the bombing security has stepped up at government buildings. Following the bombing of Gows car the IRA then took responsibility for the bombing of the English Stock Exchange. A bomb was placed in the visitors gallery and the IRA called up before hand so no casu- alties were reported. English soccer fans made the news again by clashing with German fans in the downtown of Turin, Italy. Because of their actions England citizens are once again under consideration to have restrictions placed on their travel outside their country for soccer matches. Britain ' s Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, cele- brated her 90th birthday June 5, 1989, millions of mourners flooded in to a square where Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ' s body lay. The stampede killed 8 people and injured at least 500 others. Khomeini, 86, died Satur- day, June 4th of a heart attack after 11 days of in- testinal surgery His death left Iran in its worst politi- cal crisis since the revolu- tion that catapulted the Moslem cleric to power in 1979. 136 NEWS I After two years of talk, in March, a media giant was created when Time Inc. and Warner Communica- tions Inc. agreed to create the world ' s biggest media and entertainment con- glomerate through an $18 billion merger. The agreement between the two corporations fol- lowed two years of off again, on again talks. As Warner chairman Steven J. Ross commented, I do not know of an item we did not explore. With the consolidation of the two companies, the combined interests of the multi-million dollar merger now have a small monopoly of the enter- tainment industry. In February of 1989, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Kho- meini placed a death threat on British author Salmon Rushdie for his novel The Satanic Verses which depicted ideas of unholy dreams by the prophet Muhamad. September 28, Ferdinand E. Marcos, former presi- dent of the Phillipines died. Marcos, 72, died at 12:40 a.m. at St. Francis hospital, Honolulu, Ha- waii. For nearly 10 months Marcos had been hospi- talized with kidney, lung and heart ailments, pneu- monia and bacterial infec- tions. Marcos was one of the most controversial charac- ters of his time. In 1986 he was driven from the Phi- lippine presidency and was exiled to live at an estate in Hawaii. Supreme Court Justice, William J. Brennan, Jr. re- signed his position due to medical reasons.

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101 orld News WORLD NEWS: Manjil, Iran suffered from an earth- quake that resulted in over 6,000 deaths and total dev- astation late in July. In Harzevil, Iran, a nearby mountain village only about one hundred people of 2,500 residents survived the quake. Nelson Mandela, deputy president of the African National Congress, be- comes a lifetime member of the United Auto Workers Union. July found over 800,000 Muslims making a pil- grimage to Mina, Saudi Ar- abia for the three day cele- bration of Eid al-Adha, the Feast of the Sacrifice in a part of the annual Hajj, the pilgrimage to holy sites of Islam. In July hundreds of thou- sands of miners walked off their jobs in support of the first-ever one-day political strike against the central government in Donetsk, USSR. Over 250 used medical sy- ringes were found on San Francisco ' s Ocean Beach. Almost a mile of the beach was closed while police conducted a thorough sweep after finding 200 needles in two wine bottles. Luzon in the Philippine Is- lands felt the force of an earthquake which regis- tered 7.7 on the Richter scale. In Cabanatuan City, a six-story school collapsed, killing more than 80 peo- ple. The quake also affected Baguio City, collapsing sev- 138 NEWS I 1 W ' 1 eral buildings and hotels and killing over 100 people in the city. Over 30,000 people sought shelter from the civil war in Liberia. In capital Mon- rovia, over 20 compounds are now dedicated to the sheltering effort. South Korean President Roh Tae-woo asked to end the Cold War on the Korean peninsula and proposed free travel between com- munist North Korea and South Korea. Monsoon season brought flooding in the Manikgonj district of Bangladesh, killing at least 65 people and leaving 2 million homeless for over one month. President George Bush meets with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on August 2 to discuss Eu- rope, but the meeting was called short with Iraq ' s in- vasion of Kuwait. President Bush called for Iraq to with- draw its troops from Kuwait and denounced the invasion as naked aggres- sion. In September, Hurricane Hugo struck Culebra, Puer- to Rico, destroying many homes in the area. Over 4,000 East German ref- ugees rejoiced over their re- lease from the West German Embassy in Prague on Oct. 1, after an accord between the Warsaw Pact and NATO nations. Ferdinand Marcos dies of cardiac arrest while in exile in Hawaii. In Manila, Mar- cos Loyalists gathered to urge the government to re- consider its decision to ban their former leader ' s body from being buried there.