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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1992
Page
3
The American Council on Education reports black high schoolers increasing college enrollment over five years while Latino enrollment declines persist. The 10th annual minorities in higher education study notes modest shrinkage in the white–minority gap despite overall growth in the late 1980s.
Defense Secretary Dick Cheney said Saddam Hussein will eventually fall though he warned against fixating on the dictator. He noted Kurdish control in the north and weakening Shia influence in the south while declining to discuss any U S contingency plans.
NASA started the countdown at noon CST for Discovery on its 45th shuttle mission. Commander Ronald Grabe and six astronauts arrived at Kennedy Space Center ahead of liftoff set for 7:53 a.m. CST Wednesday to study weightlessness effects on humans, plants, and insects.
Coretta Scott King chastised the Bush administration for imperiling the poor during the annual State of the Dream speech at the King Center in Atlanta. She urged action on housing jobs and medical care as city and national commemorations mark Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday with a march led by Mrs. King and Winnie Mandela.
The deep chill and snowfall disrupted the South with up to 8 inches in Georgia areas south and east of Atlanta. Temperatures fell to near 20 in places, with refreezing feared overnight and hazardous driving predicted into Monday morning. Kentucky saw lows well below zero while Mississippi faced mixed precipitation and fl ooding rivers.
Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Frederick Fosdal said Jeffrey Dahmer drilled holes in skulls and poured fluids to deaden brain tissue while victims were drugged, then strangled and dissected them when experiments failed. Fosdal noted Dahmer hoped to create zombie-like captives.
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