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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1989
Page
3
Steven Smith, 23, a homeless man, is arrested for the strangulation and rape of Kathryn Hinnant, a 33 year old five months pregnant pathologist at a city hospital. Police say he sometimes slept in an empty hospital bed. Hinnant's body was found Sunday by her husband and a hospital administrator. Mayor Koch calls the case top priority.
Veteran actor Kenneth McMillan died of liver failure at St John’s Hospital in Santa Monica. The Brooklyn native starred as Rhoda’s boss Jack Doyle on CBS’s Rhoda and appeared in Eye Witness True Confessions Ragtime Reckless Dune The Pope of Greenwich Village Runaway Train and Protocol. He acted on Broadway in American Buffalo and earned an Obie for Weekends Like Other People.
Costa Rica announced the indefinite postponement of a Central American summit planned for January 15 to 16 to discuss a regional peace plan. Three presidents from Honduras El Salvador and Costa Rica agreed to suspend while Nicaragua and Guatemala did not. The World Food Program reported a 1988 record spend of 136 million dollars on food aid for nearly 550000 tons, aiding about 90 developing countries.
Iran expressed little hope for progress in stalled peace negotiations with Iraq and said resuming talks is pointless until Iraqi forces withdraw. Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati, at an international chemical weapons conference, said Iran would accept a chemical weapons ban regardless of Iraq’s stance.
A Moscow newspaper reports a Soviet woman received four years in prison for ignoring a categorical abstinence order under a 1987 law penalizing knowingly exposing others to AIDS. The Medical Gazette notes the case as the first of its kind.
Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi warned that Libya would destroy anything American within reach if the United States strikes the Rabta medicines factory near Tripoli. Reagan signals possible strike options as Libyan dissident leader Magariaf seeks U.S. help to oust Gadhafi.
Astronomers report a black widow binary pulsar PSR 1957 20 that rapidly spins while siphoning matter from its companion, a process that speeds the pulsar and may explain how such stars reach extreme spin rates. The pair, observed last spring, provides a missing link between pulsar classes, with expert quotes from Rasio, Moran, Fruchter, and Phinney at an American Astronomical Society meeting.
Officials say both engines of a Boeing 737 failed causing the crash beside the M1 highway killing 44 of 142 aboard. Prime Minister Thatcher says no cause ruled out including sabotage while SAS link not established.
A Media General AP poll shows 60 percent favor more federal spending on homelessness and nearly all would pay higher taxes for that purpose. Seventy percent view the issue as very or fairly serious, with 75 percent saying it affects communities of all sizes.
In Lebanon's Kfar Melki and nearby areas, Amal and Hezbollah rival factions fought house to house. Police report at least 80 killed and 200 wounded in days of combat, marking the deadliest 36 hours of the April power struggle amid Syrian backed guerrilla activity.
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