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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1986
Page
10
The Hialeah city council unanimously approved shipping police‑seized weapons to Nicaraguan rebels. Councilman Julio Martinez led the measure amid Florida debates over aid to the contras, with Latinos among the majority supporters.
A 250 pound cheetah escaped from its crate inside a British Airways 747 at Heathrow as police sealed the terminal. A marksman fired a tranquilizer shot, the animal was knocked out and driven to a quarantine center after the 6,000 mile flight from Johannesburg to Dublin.
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