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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1986
Page
3
The Supreme Court in a 6-2 ruling held that a rival cannot block a merger by merely showing anticipated profit losses. Justice Brennan cautioned a showing of antitrust injury is required, rejecting a broad automatic standing ban urged by the Reagan administration.
Capt John Testrake the TWA pilot held hostage in Lebanon in 1985 receives the Salvation Army Others Award at the annual civic dinner in Kansas City Missouri joining Robert Peel of Hutchinson Kane who flew on the hijacked plane. Manilow Recovering From Cyst Removal Surgery. Russell Long to join NYSE board after Senate term ends. He aims to broaden investment access and serves the six months left on Richard Shinn’s term. Associated Press
Census Bureau findings show American women marry later than at any time since 1890, with a typical first marriage at 23.3 and grooms at 25.5. The study notes more single adults, rising through 1980s, and increasing numbers of single-parent households and never-married individuals among young adults.
Anatoly Marchenko, a leading Soviet human rights activist who had been pressured to emigrate to Israel, died in a prison at age 48. His wife Larisa Bogoraz and their 13-year-old son Pavel travelled to the facility east of Moscow after receiving the news by telegram.
University of Pennsylvania researchers report implanting a lab constructed heart chamber from a dog's back muscle into Bruno, the first canine patient. The device pumps blood without outside power and, if successful in humans, could ease donor shortages and lower treatment costs. Bosco, a second dog, is doing well, while the chamber uses the dog's own tissue to avoid rejection and no external power source.
FBI agents arrested Terry Lee Conner of Evansville Illinois at the Red Roof Inn Arlington Heights after a tip from a citizen who thought he resembled a Ten Most Wanted list member. They seek a second robber, Joseph William Dougherty, who escaped custody with Conner in 1985.
Government and rebels agreed on a 60 day ceasefire to start at noon today. The pact limits guerrillas entering population centers and bars confiscation of rebel weapons during patrols. The accord marks the last hurdle to a truce in the long running insurgency.
NASA and partner scientists report seismic tomography maps show the Earth's molten core is not smooth but studded with tall mountains and deep valleys at the core mantle boundary about 2000 miles below. Friction from liquid motion may cause day length variations of about five thousandths of a second per decade.
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