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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Aug 25, 1987

Page

4

Distant Quasar Discovered by Anglo Australian Team

Scientists at Anglo Australian Observatory announce a quasar about 13 billion light years away, the most distant yet and the brightest seen to date. Found on a plate from the U K Schmidt telescope at Siding Spring, the object offers a new view of the early universe and its structure.

Sydnex Australia Anglo-australian Observatory Observatory Russell Cannon U.K Siding Spring New South Wales

Bayard Rustin Dies at 77 Civil Rights Leader and Strategist

Bayard Rustin, longtime aide to Martin Luther King Jr and key organizer of the Washington rally where the I have a dream speech was delivered, has died at 77. He passed Sunday at Lenox Hill Hospital after surgery for a ruptured appendix. Rustin was a pioneer in civil rights, peace, and labor movements, jailed over two dozen times, and a steadfast advocate for education and nonviolence amidst 1960s and 1970s street upheavals.

Bayard Rustin King New York Bayard Washington Martin Luther King Rustin Lenox Hill Hospital Norman Hill A. Philip Randolph Institute Austin Harlem America Vietnam

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