10 Jan 1987
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1987
Page
1
A compact collection of local notes and brief items drawn from the city pages. Highlights include small notices, public notices, and minor community updates reflecting routine civic life and neighborhood happenings.
A light joke notes one in five people is emotionally disturbed while the other four are nuts, a playful quip on mental health.
The U S ended 1986 with 2.4 million new jobs and wholesale prices 2.5 percent lower than a year earlier. Unemployment fell to 6.7 percent in December, a level not seen since March 1980, while wholesale prices held steady after earlier rises.
Snowfall across Iowa left slick roads and caused numerous accidents, some serious, with up to 9 inches of snow hitting Illinois Missouri and Kansas. Five fatalities were reported from the storm as it headed east and winds threatened rural roads.
The White House made public a Reagan memo to Poindexter and an intelligence directive dated January 17 1986. The items portrayed the Iran arms sales as aiding moderate elements in Tehran while linking supplies to freeing American hostages in Lebanon.
The Gazette unveils a redesigned front page with the nameplate at the top and story promotions moved to the left to improve display on page 1. The daily briefing now appears on page 1. The redesign follows prior upgrades including low rub ink to reduce smudging.
ICN Pharmaceuticals reports ribavirin may delay AIDS onset by at least seven months in a six month study of 163 patients infected with HIV but not yet showing severe symptoms. Officials caution it is not a cure or proven to prevent AIDS.
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