Air Illinois Suspends All Flights Indefinitely
Air Illinois halted all operations amid financial trouble and a federal safety probe. The Cedar Rapids and Waterloo to Chicago service is canceled with FAA sources noting likely charter use of two BAC-111 jets. Airport officials pursue $7,070.29 past due plus other charges, while awaiting official company statements.
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Air Illinois
Cedar Rapids
Waterloo
Chicago
Carbondale
Federal Aviation Administration
Seaboard
FAA
Mort Edelstein
Roy Jameson
the Gazette
Alice Mitchell
Jameson
Airport Commission
Don Gardner
Mitchell
Embassy security chief shot in San Salvador taxi ambush
Gunmen in a yellow taxi killed Joaquim Alfredo Zapata Romero, chief of Salvadoran security personnel for the U.S. Embassy, as his car halted at a traffic light. Zapata, with eight years at the embassy and 22 years with the national police, was fatally wounded. his wife Yolanda was injured and their daughter Lindora unharmed. No group claimed responsibility. officials noted rising violence ahead of El Salvador's May 6 runoff.
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Gazette Wire Services
San Salvador
el Salvador
U.S
Joaquim Alfredo Zapata Romero
Yolanda
Gregory Lagana
Lagana
Zapata
Rafael Hasbun
Central Elections Council
John Kelly
Roberto Meza Delgado
Kelly
Salvador
Branstad veto of victim fund upheld in Iowa Senate
Iowa Senate failed to override Gov. Branstad and the crime victim reparation fund ends July 1 after his veto of a measure to expand coverage to drunk driving victims. Sen. Doyle argued the fund could net about 1.5 million annually from civil penalties, with earmarking aimed at ensuring proper use.
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Branstad
Victim Fund
Ken Sullivan
Des Moines Bureau
DES Moines
Iowa Senate
Terry Branstad
Senate
Donald Doyle
Sioux City
Conscience and Guilt in the Mind’s Moral Shadow
In this brief essay the author explores conscience as a small inner force that induces discomfort, while the larger self revels in present pleasure. The piece examines how guilt can curb impulse and shape behavior without fully suppressing desire.
Ostriches or Rheas Block Highway Near Iowa City Airport
Alan Keep of Lone Tree reported two large flightless birds crossing Highway 218 near the Iowa City Municipal Airport just after 6 am. The animals, later identified as rheas named Clipper and Henrietta, were captured after a roundup involving their owners and four Iowa City police officers.
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Tom Walsh
Johnson County
Iowa City
Alan Keep
Lone Tree
Keep
David Baculis
Karen
Baculis
David Jr
Rhea
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Judy Daubenmier
Iowa
Iowa House
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Mount Pleasant
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Mark Haverland
D-Ankeny
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