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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1994
Page
3
Princeton reports the SAT will allow calculators and emphasize critical thinking in a major two decade widely anticipated revision. The verbal section drops antonyms and adds longer passages with more sentence completion while the math section features ten open answer questions. High school students will see the new version on March 19.
Teamsters threaten walkout as UPS moves to lift package weight limit from 70 to 150 pounds with a Wednesday injunction hearing in Washington. Then an LA tremor rattles homes, and Nintendo of America layoffs win NAFTA aid for 136 workers in Redmond amid planned plant moves.
The Clinton administration unveils a 1995 budget with a $30 billion reduction in federal programs and the elimination of 115 funded efforts. Budget Director Leon Panetta cites prudent management as deficits force Democrats to accept tighter resource constraints and reform. The plan targets aid for the poor with high energy bills, public housing, and transit subsidies.
NASA struggles to deploy the Wake Shield Facility from the Space Shuttle Discovery as a faulty horizon sensor hinders guidance. Ground teams race to salvage one day of free flight with the return to Earth planned for Friday while officials stress hope remains.
Joseph Cotten a Virginian actor famed for Citizen Kane and The Third Man died at 6 30 am in his Westwood home from pneumonia He was 88 His wife Patricia Medina at his bedside Cotten suffered a massive stroke in 1981 and regained some speech through therapy His career spanned stage film and television with notable roles opposite Marilyn Monroe Bette Davis Ingrid Bergman and Orson Welles
U S Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison stands trial in Fort Worth on charges stemming from her time as Texas state treasurer from 1991 to 1993. Prosecutors allege she used tax dollars for personal and political gain and tampered with records and evidence. If convicted on all counts, she could face up to 20 years in prison. Hutchison, a former rising Republican, has denied wrongdoing and faces a March 8 primary rival slate as she seeks re election to a full six year term.
In Manassas Lorena Bobbitt, acquitted of malicious wounding, receives 86 letters cards and packages from seven countries and two dozen states. Some donors praise her self defense while others weight public debate on abuse. Her lawyers manage the mail as she awaits a mental state hearing at Petersburg hospital. A plastic meat cleaver arrived unwrapped at the courthouse.
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