Chauffeuring Buckley in a Lincoln Town Car
I drove William F. Buckley Jr from Cedar Rapids airport to Iowa City for a Hoover Library Association event. The ride exposed me to a luxury Lincoln with features I barely understood while Buckley charmed us with humility and wit, as Dukakis arrived shortly after and our car lights finally faded.
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William F. Buckley Jr
Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
Hoover Library Association
Tom Walsh
Library Association
Buckley
Lincoln Town Car, So It Was Not Mr. Buckley
Michael Dukakis
Dukakis
Massachusetts
Lincoln
Branstad to announce new film project for Cedar Rapids
Gov. Terry Branstad is set to reveal a major Hollywood production planned to shoot in the Cedar Rapids area with a budget above one million dollars. Spokesman Richard Vohs said details will be announced at a news conference at the Cedar Rapids Public Library, noting the project is smaller than Shoeless Joe, which was about ten million dollars and partly spent in Iowa.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Terry Branstad
Hollywood
Cedar Rapids
Richard Vohs
Vohs
Dubuque
Branstad
Cedar Rapids Public Library
Heart transplant recipient to walk 120 miles for organ donation
Andrew Hinze, University of Iowa Hospitals second heart transplant recipient, will walk from Iowa City to Des Moines to raise organ donation awareness. The 27-year-old Independence man plans about 12 miles daily, ending Aug. 19, visiting two waiting-list patients and promoting donor cards at the state fair. He seeks sponsors to support his 10 day trek and will donate any excess funds to the UI organ donation program.
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Andrew Hinze
Independence
U of Hospitals
Des Moines
Lyle Muller
Johnson County
Iowa City
Hinze
Highway 6
U of I
Tracy Starcruiser
Richard Edwards
Clinton
Edwards
Cedar Rapids woman in coma after liver transplant rejection
Donna Gordon a Cedar Rapids resident and liver transplant recipient remains in a coma and near death at the University of Iowa Hospitals as doctors report repeated rejection of the new liver. Surgeon Dr. Robert Corry notes the brain injury from a prior cardiac arrest and says the cause is unclear. The nine year old daughter and local fundraisers highlight the high cost and community support surrounding the case. Gordon waited on a transplant list with hepatitis since age ten and received the liver after a seven hour operation. Since surgery she faced multiple rejection episodes and is described as critically ill with little response.
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Lyle Muller
Johnson County
Iowa City
Donna Gordon
Cedar Rapids
Gordon
University of Iowa
Robert Corry
Corry
U of I
Donna
Brenda Shasteen
Illinois
Infant dies after heart transplant at U of I Hospitals
Melissa Deike, 17 days old, died Sunday night at University of Iowa Hospitals from complications of a heart transplant performed last Thursday. The infant, daughter of Mary and David Deike of Wellsburg, had hypoplastic left heart syndrome and received a heart from a 5 day old Chicago girl. The procedure followed the hospital's first infant transplant last October, with ongoing concerns about heart strength and function.
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Lyle Muller
Johnson County
Iowa City
Melissa Deike
University of Iowa
Melissa
U of I
Marissa Getting
Grundy Center
Chicago
Mary and
David Deike
Wellsburg
Fair housing bill sent to Reagan by House approval
The House approved a bill strengthening federal enforcement of fair housing laws and banning discrimination against families with children and the handicapped in home sales and rentals. President Reagan is expected to sign. The measure expands HUD enforcement and allows federal court juries, with fines up to 50000 dollars for repeat violators.
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Washington
House
Reagan
Congress
Senate
George Bush
Samuel R. Pierce Jr
HUD
Department of Justice
Congressional
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Skogman Realty
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Oxford
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