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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1988
Page
3
The Senate approved a mandatory system to trace medical waste disposal in New York New Jersey and Connecticut. The move aims to curb syringe litter on Northeast shores and reduce beach closings during summers like 1988.
A Nairobi study reported in the New England Journal of Medicine finds uncircumcised men face higher AIDS infection risk regardless of prior genital ulcers, while ulcers still link heterosexual transmission. Beatrice Hahn notes HIV can form multiple viral variants, demanding multi-drug strategies.
Less than three weeks into his tenure William J. McCarthy ousts regional leaders Robert Holmes and Edward Lawson and general counsel John R. Climaco. Holmes and Lawson retain their executive board seats while both backed Weldon Mathis for the presidency after Jackie Presser's death. Grady named new general counsel.
American Samoa delegate Fofo I F Sunia and his chief aide Matthew Suli admitted conspiracy to defraud the government by padding payroll. The scheme yielded 130920 from ghost employees. Sentencing is set for Oct 4 with possible terms up to five years and fines up to 250000.
The Supreme Court of India acquits Balbir Singh in Indira Gandhi's 1984 assassination, ruling his evidence is defective, while Satwant Singh and Kehar Singh are sentenced to death. The decision comes after a highly emotional legal battle within the Indian judiciary.
In Johannesburg and three other cities, 143 white army conscripts announced they would refuse service, saying it upholds the apartheid system of racial separation.
President Reagan vetoed the $299.5 billion Pentagon appropriation, charging Democratic partisanship and saying the bill would cripple SDI Star Wars. He argued it changed defense policy and tied hands on future arms talks, making the veto hard to override in a Democratic Congress. Senator Kennedy criticized the move as a test between presidency and campaign.
President Reagan sparked controversy by calling Michael Dukakis an invalid in a joke he said was failed. Dukakis released a health summary and said he is healthy. Bush avoided comment on the dispute amid campaign travel.
The House approves 17 articles of impeachment against U S District Judge Alice Hastings of Florida after acquittal in a prior bribery trial. The action, unprecedented for a federal official acquitted before, sends the case to the Senate where a two thirds vote is needed for removal. Hastings calls it a dark day for the judicial process.
Los Angeles reports a tentative agreement between the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers ending a 150 day walkout. Members will vote this week with possible return to work by Monday and a delayed fall TV season likely.
Mathias Rust, freed early from a Soviet prison sentence for flying to Red Square, says the stunt was irresponsible as he returns to Germany. He was 20 at the time of the 1987 landing and described isolation and despair during his 15 months in Lefortovo Prison.
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