Answer:
He was awaiting orders from Washington.
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Explanation:
The following are all events that took place in the year 1990, (30 years ago)
- Smoking is banned on all cross-country flights in the United States.
- The League of Communists of Yugoslavia votes to dissolve itself.
- The National Assembly of Bulgaria votes to end one party rule by the Bulgarian Communist Party.
- Two trains collide in Sangi, Pakistan, killing between 200 and 300 people and injuring an estimated 700 others.
- The Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public because of safety concerns.
- Thousands storm the Stasi headquarters in East Berlin in an attempt to view their government records.
- The city of Tiraspol in the Moldavian SSR briefly declares independence.
- Four months after their exit from power, the Polish United Workers' Party votes to dissolve itself and reorganize itself as the Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland.
- The trial of Joseph Hazelwood, former skipper of the Exxon Valdez, begins in Anchorage, Alaska. He is accused of negligence that resulted in America's second worst oil spill to date.
- German reunification: An agreement is reached for a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.
- A fire at the Sheraton Hotel in Cairo, Egypt, kills 16 people.
- Police seal off Brixton in South London after another night of protests against the poll tax.
- Prosper Avril is ousted in a coup in Haiti, eighteen months after seizing power.
- Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first executive president of the Soviet Union.
- Cold War: East Germany holds its first free elections.
- Ferdinand Marcos's widow, Imelda Marcos, goes on trial for bribery, embezzlement, and racketeering.
- After 75 years of South African rule since World War I, Namibia becomes independent.
- In New York City, a fire due to arson at an illegal social club called "Happy Land" kills 87.
- The Community Charge (poll tax) takes effect in England and Wales amid widespread protests
- Cold War: The Soviet Union apologizes for the Katyn massacre.
- Cold War: West Germany and East Germany agree to merge currency and economies on July 1.
- President of Zaire Mobutu Sese Seko lifts a 20-year ban on opposition parties.
- In South Korea, police battle anti-government protesters in Seoul and two other cities.
- First talks between the government of South Africa and the African National Congress.
- Manjil–Rudbar earthquake affects northern Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing 35,000–50,000, and injuring 60,000–105,000.
- Hajj stampede: A stampede in a pedestrian tunnel leading to Mecca kills 1,426.
- A U.S. District Court acquits Imelda Marcos on racketeering and fraud charges.
- In Kenya, riots erupt against the Kenya African National Union's monopoly on power.
- Gulf War: Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.
- U.S. President Bush orders U.S. combat planes and troops to Saudi Arabia to prevent a possible attack by Iraq
