10 Apr 1989
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1989
Page
1
The piece notes Republicans plan to imitate federal crime and punishment rhetoric to defeat Democrats in the 1990 elections. Evelyn Benda, nursing education assistant professor at Coe College, discusses a Coe course that exposes nursing students to volunteerism and community service in Accent.
Evelyn Benda notes financing details to be ironed out this week for a planned statewide fiber optics system linking Iowa public schools under one telecommunications network. The plan aims to streamline school connectivity across the state.
A light hearted column notes that teaching offers a steady job with a sense of class, despite modest pay and classroom challenges.
Hundreds of thousands marched on Washington to oppose overturning Roe v. Wade. Activists carried symbolic coat hangers and chanted choice as Ellen Davidson of New York expressed fear the ruling could endanger safe abortions. The Supreme Court will hear a Missouri case on April 26 that could reshape abortion rights.
In Tbilisi early Sunday soldiers charged thousands of protesters in the Georgian capital. Officials and activists report at least 16 killed in a melee with clubs shovels and stones. Curfew and paramilitary patrols followed as hunger strikes pressed for independence from the Soviet Union.
Los Angeles AP reports Lundberg Survey founder Trilby Lundberg says wholesale and retail gas prices peaked after the Exxon Valdez grounding and are now easing. The March 17 to April 7 average rose to 110.63 cents a gallon from 100.37, with wholesale up slightly. the Port of Valdez shutdown briefly cut 40 percent of California crude.
Two Iowa men died in single car wrecks in Muscatine County and Crawford County Wisconsin. Twelve people were injured in a three car crash in Johnson County and five in a one car crash on a rural Winneshiek County road.
The plan to relocate the two ton Table Rock near Elkader aims to preserve a DAR plaque and honor a cited 1838 Independence Day event. The move faces cost and access challenges with support from Elkader officials and Lillian Roustie state DAR regent who pledges 2200 dollars.
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