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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1992
Page
7
Fresno Calif AP arson investigator Capt John L Orr a Glendale fire captain was found guilty of setting blazes in Fresno during and after a 1987 arson investigators convention. He authored a novel about a pyromaniac firefighter.
Alan Fiers testified that he diverted funds to a banned Nicaragua covert project without informing Clair George who denies knowledge. Fiers implicated George in lying to Congress about Iran-Contra while Casey allegedly directed the operation in 1985. He admitted hiding multiple lies under cross examination and said only two officials knew of the scheme.
The Iowa tourism outlook remains typical for summer with nationwide declines. Despite losing two riverboat casinos, the state records a tourism request peak of 348000 in fiscal 1992 as wet July weather and the recession influence local travel. Doug Woolf of AAA Iowa notes more people are driving locally versus 1991.
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