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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1981
Page
1
The page highlights plans to give up racing for motherhood and notes several local items. It mentions an Iowa corporation buying student loans to expand future low interest lending and lists multiple brief notices and sports glimpses from Cedar Rapids and Iowa City.
Former Vice President Spiro Agnew is required to repay Maryland 248 735 dollars for kickbacks alleged from his Maryland governorship. The ruling notes 147 500 dollars in kickbacks and 101 235 dollars in interest, with Agnew’s testimony and book details resolving the civil suit. The case follows a separate 1973 federal probe and a 1974 tax settlement.
The Supreme Court voted 6 3 upholding an Indiana law banning out of hospital abortions for women more than three months pregnant. The ruling lacked an accompanying opinion with dissents by Justices Brennan Marshall and Blackmun. The decision marks another chapter in a long running abortion controversy stemming from the 1973 Roe decision.
United Press International reports a weekend of summer like weather across western Iowa with temperatures reaching record highs in seven cities on Sunday and several more on Saturday. Red Oak hit 93 matching a record dating to 1901 while Fort Dodge and Lamoni set or tied marks as well.
Ben Munson of Des Moines ties for third with Leroy Gay of Cedar Rapids and Tom Smit of Iowa City at 2-3 in the round robin. Weiss of Mason City claims the state title with 4 2 2, Kenkel of Dubuque runner up at 3 2. Craig Myers finishes sixth in the six man field. Carroll Schmidt unable to attend. Forty three players compete in the concurrent First Iowa Class Championships at Montrose.
A bomb in a booby trapped delivery truck in West Belfast killed one police officer and wounded three as police arrested 20 supporters of hunger striker Bobby Sands. The blast occurred when officers moved the truck in Andersonstown after arrests tied to Sands campaign. One officer died on arrival at Royal Victoria hospital. two others were critically hurt. No immediate claim of responsibility.
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