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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1990
Page
3
Police recovered a chrome .25 caliber automatic believed used in the attack as the gunman fled after ignoring pleas to surrender. A 17 year old Brooklyn youth was charged as one of four participants in the assault.
A 22 year old man with no prior record is charged with the murders of six of seven black women found strangled in Kansas City since September. Ray Shawn Jackson was also charged with assaulting another woman whose attack was interrupted by a passer by. Jackson was arrested Thursday at his grandmother s house near Gillham Park where four of the victims were found.
Polish President Wojciech Jaruzelski visited Katyn Forest on Saturday to pay tribute to thousands of Polish army officers killed and buried there by the Soviet secret police during World War II. The trip followed the Soviet admission of the massacre after decades of denial, with Jaruzelski noting that truth heals wounds.
In Abu Dhabi the first artificial insemination of racing camels is reported as a scientific breakthrough. Scientists at the Sheik Khalifa Genetic Research Laboratory successfully removed and fertilized ovules from famous racing breeds, per Al-Ittihad.
Washington Mayor Marion Barry acknowledged missing several Next Step counseling sessions and Alcoholics Anonymous meetings integral to his recovery. He said he previously believed church attendance could substitute for meetings and vowed to stop that practice. The disclosure follows a Washington Post review of his activities from early April showing gaps in treatment attendance.
A Columbia University report from the National Center for Children in Poverty finds 23 percent of children under six live in poverty, higher than any other age group. Five million young children are below the poverty line, with half of Black and 40 percent of Hispanic children in this bracket. The study links early poverty to long term educational and behavioral risks.
Senior advisers to Mikhail Gorbachev argued delays in reform are impossible. They discussed moving toward a controlled market economy as economists struggle to finalize radical reforms for summer. Abalkin warned without a transition the Soviet Union cannot remain a developed power amid shortages and lagging productivity. Tass reported the session will continue this week.
University of Illinois food scientist Munir Cheryan engineered a high calcium, low fat milk using membrane filtration. The product contains 75 percent more protein and 66 percent more calcium than whole milk, with 75 to 90 percent less fat and cholesterol. Dairy farmers may gain as twice as much raw milk is required to produce it.
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