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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 2001
Page
2
Mike Deupree recasts Christmas Eve with a green snowmobile Santa and a message of enduring spirit. The piece notes gift vouchers over toys, societal change, and the 12 yearly column runs, ending with a festive solstice wish. Deupree signs as Sunday Tuesday Thursday columnist with contact info.
President Bush in a Christmas radio address urged Americans to value family friends and faith while acknowledging grief from September 11 and Afghanistan. He praised Congress on reforms but criticized stalled stimulus, and noted his holiday plans including Camp David and Crawford ranch.
The body found in the Mississippi River has been identified as Harvard University biologist Don Wiley, 57, who disappeared after his rental car was found abandoned on a Memphis bridge on November 16. Dental records confirmed the identity, with autopsy under way and foul play not suspected. Wiley had attended a St. Jude conference in Memphis.
The Gazette highlights a commitment to the future by printing with soybean ink and using recycled newsprint. It urges readers to drop newspapers for recycling at City Carton and other local recycling locations.
The Gazette and Iowa City Gazette editions of Gazette Communications Inc publish daily and on Sundays at 500 Third Avenue SE Cedar Rapids Iowa with mail and carrier subscription options. Rates include $4.95 weekly carrier, $5.30 motor route, and varying 4 week and 52 week prices. post office box listings and AP republication rights noted. Postmaster and subscription service contacts provided.
The CIA paid a 15 member Afghan team for four years to monitor Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. They reported monthly sightings of his location with some confirmations from other sources while at times losing track. The effort was highly secret and yielded mixed results.
Officials say a CIA covert action program, drafted under the National Security Council, would have cost up to $200 million annually and aimed to destabilize Afghanistan's Taliban leadership and strike bin Laden's network worldwide. The plan was nearly presented to Bush when the Sept. 11 attacks occurred.
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