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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1986
Page
1
Guardsmen aid patients at Palmerola base in Honduras
Iowa National Guard paramedic Irv Rawlings helps direct Honduran patients awaiting care at the Palmerola Air Base field hospital during a two week training mission. Thirty eight Guardsmen will return next Saturday. Gazette staff writer Rick Smith and photo editor Paul Jensen accompanied the unit and file reports on pages 15A 20A and 21A.
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Iowa National Guard
Irv Rawlings
Iowa City
Palmerola Air Base
Honduras
Gazette
Rick Smith
Paul Jensen
Towa
Guard
IE seeks rate hike to destroy plant in 2010
Iowa Utilities Board will weigh a $43.93 million electric rate increase for Iowa Electric Light and Power Co. as it studies the decommissioning costs of the Duane Arnold Energy Center near Palo. The unit, Iowa's only nuclear plant, expected to close after more than 36 years, would require hundreds of workers and billions to dismantle.
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Duane Arnold Energy Center
Iowa
Iowa Utilities Board
Iowa Electric Light and Power Co
Palo
Neighbors Seek Help After Shooting Ties to Huntington's Disease
In Cedar Rapids a shooting linked to Huntington's disease history prompts 200 residents to petition Linn County officials for family supervision and living-condition review. Kelly Smith 21 was shot by neighbor 15-year-old Brian Urbanek after a knife threat. Urbanek faces attempted murder charges.
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Cedar Rapids
Kelly Smith
Oklahoma Ave
Brian Urbanek
Smith
Urbanek
University Hospitals
Iowa City
Linn County Health Department
Department of Human Services
Huntington's Disease Devastates Families Across Generations
The article notes Huntington's disease is inherited and often fatal within a decade. Dr. Winthrop Risk of Cedar Rapids said victims typically show motor and cognitive decline in their 40s or 50s. Maurice Smith of Cedar Rapids died at 43 in 1972, with multiple children affected. a daughter died at 29.
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Nancy Stevensuntington
Woody Guthrie
Huntington
Winthrop Risk
Cedar Rapids
Maurice Smith
Risk
Soviet UN official charged with espionage in New York
Gennadiy Fedorovich Zakharov, 39, a scientific affairs officer at the U.N. Secretariat, was arrested in Queens after buying classified U.S. Air Force jet engine documents from a informant at a subway stop. The FBI confiscated the documents and charged him with espionage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
FBI
United Nations
William
Webster
Gennadiy Fedorovich Zakharov
Center For Science and Technology For Development
U.N. Secretariat
John Hogan
Zakharov
Queens
Hogan
Washington
Queens College
Third Peace Talks Set for Sesori El Salvador
The third round of peace talks between El Salvador's U.S.-backed government and leftist rebels is scheduled to begin September 19 in Sesori. Delegations met in Mexico over three days at an undisclosed location to set time and place. Archbishop Arturo Rivera Damas, mediator, signed the communiqué.
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el Salvador
Mexico City
Sesori
Mexico
Arturo Rivera Damas
San Salvador
Vacation Trip With Kids Turns Into Full Carload
A lighthearted column jokes about family vacations where loading the car with children, pets, toys, and luggage defeats the idea of escaping routine. The piece plays on the irony of “getting away from it all” becoming a crowded, hectic start to travel.
Dying convict seeks release to be with family
Bear says he is dying of cancer in prison and asks Gov Branstad to grant release to spend his remaining life with kin. At 47, he acknowledges past drunken driving arrests since the 1970s and hopes to provide for his children. He is serving time in Fort Madison for two third offense DWI and a forcible felony.
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David Young Bear
Terry Branstad
Young Bear
the Gazette
Fort Madison
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