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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1992
Page
3
Police quickly arrested 44 year old Richard C Gillis after he wrote his name and home address on a BayBank deposit slip during a Thursday hold up. He fled on a bicycle trailing smoke from a booby trap and was found minutes later coughing and sneezing covered in red dye.
The National Marine Fisheries Service declared the spring-summer and fall chinook runs on the Snake River as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. The listing covers chinook spawning on the Snake River and requires development of a recovery plan with state consultation.
Anonymous tips can earn $100 per drunken driver under El Dorado County's Driving Under the Influence Reporters' Reward program started Friday. Placerville, on U.S. 50 between San Francisco and Lake Tahoe, is a frequent tourist stop and has seen many traffic accidents. Capt. Jim Munson of the California Highway Patrol notes the deterrent effect of citizen reporting.
Classified documents show the Reagan and Bush administrations secretly allowed Saudi Arabia to supply American made weapons to Iraq and other nations from the mid 1980s to last year. The transfers included 2000 pound bombs and were done with wink and nod approvals without notifying Congress, to avoid opposition and protect broader arms deals.
Firefighters hose down the remains of the South Pacific Islands pavilion at Expo '92 in Seville Spain on Friday. The cause is unknown and the structure built of tropical wood and grasses bound with vine cords was completed just last week.
State and local tax takings nationwide topped 513.6 billion for the year ended June 30 1991 with state receipts at 309.3 billion and local levies at 204.3 billion. Iowa state taxes totaled 3.433 billion, up 3.8 percent, while local property levies rose 5.4 percent to 1.967 billion.
Laura Thorpe of Bloomfield New Mexico says she used a disposable razor to remove silicone gel breast implants after a long battle with doctors insurers and a Veterans Administration hospital. She describes a painful recovery and notes no coverage from Blue Cross Blue Shield or Medicaid.
San Diego AP reports police cracked a network of up to 1000 hackers aged 14 to 25 who made millions in fraudulent credit card purchases and accessed confidential credit-rating files over four years. Detectives say the probe began with a local fraud case and led to two teen arrests in Ohio and seizures in New York City, Philadelphia area, and Seattle.
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