The World - News from Jan. 6, 1989

Afghan military cadets under the influence of drink and drugs went on a New Year’s Day rampage in the Soviet city of Tashkent, killing three people and injuring more than 30, a Soviet newspaper said. The Communist youth daily Komsomolskaya Pravda said a 6-month-old baby was killed in the rioting in the Central Asian city. The altercation reportedly began when the cadets, in the Soviet Union for two months of training, began peddling goods at inflated prices. Police rounded up the cadets and sent them to a suburban hostel where they smashed furniture, set fire to passing cars and destroyed a roadside police post, the newspaper said.