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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1986
Page
1
Iowa City police report a second robbery at Hawkeye State Bank's Sycamore Mall branch within two months. A lone man, around 5:50 p.m., demanded cash with a pistol and fled with an undisclosed amount. FBI assisting. no arrests yet.
Deb Wiley reports the bank is linked to six northeast Iowa robberies over ten months. Thurman Robert Mills Jr., 44, matches the description of a man who robbed the banks. An FBI affidavit notes a road map marking towns where robberies occurred found in Mills' car and home. Mills faces first degree robbery for the April 2 Oran bank theft and is held in Clayton County Jail on $100,000 bond.
Britain detained 21 Libyans, most university students, and announced their imminent deportation amid a Common Market crackdown on Libyan activity in Europe. Adel Masaoud, 23, an airline trainee, was named among those held.
Harold Guthrie, Cedar Rapids Community Schools superintendent since 1983, will become superintendent of Spring Branch Independent Schools in suburban Houston. He will start June 16 and earn 84 000 dollars annually, about 23 000 more than his current pay. Guthrie led Wilson Junior High reforms and helped foster regional collaboration on budgeting and legislative issues.
A humorous line notes that luck favors success for people you dislike. The quip hinges on the irony of rival feelings and the unpredictable nature of achievement.
U S consumer prices dropped 0.4 percent in March tied with February as gasoline costs tumble. The declines mark the first back-to-back decline since 1965 and a 1.9 percent annual rate for Q1. Energy prices slumped 52.3 percent, led by a 12 percent drop in gas.
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