24 Jan 1989
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1989
Page
1
In a 3-2 vote at the Cedar Rapids Airport Commission meeting on Monday Frank Magid was chosen to replace Don Gardner as chairman a role Gardner had held since 1984. Also noted is IBM and Leniency in separate items and Iowa dropping to No. 12 in the AP poll.
A light joke about money and phone calls, noting that attempting a call without coins leads to a humorous silence or frustration.
The Supreme Court, in a 6-3 ruling, restricted state and city use of minority set aside contracts. Justice OConnor warned a nationwide plan would erase colorblind aims, while Justice Marshall dissented calling it a retreat from race-conscious remedies.
An early morning quake in Soviet Central Asia created a 50 foot dirt wall that buried Sharora and swept into two other villages. Officials said up to 1000 people died as they slept, with Sharora alone estimated at 600 dead. Tass reported widespread destruction across the disaster zone.
Evan Paul 22 of Central City will take the stand in Linn County District Court to defend himself in a second degree murder trial for fatally shooting Don ald Cope Jr. at a Cedar Rapids gas station on August 16. Eyewitness Jenny Hanson testified Paul was friendly before the confrontation and that Cope struck him, while prosecutors say Paul shoved Cope and began the fight.
President Bush’s nominee for health and human services secretary tells lawmakers he does not want Roe v. Wade overturned. Bush, meanwhile, labels the 1973 decision an American tragedy and urges reversal to antiabortion activists gathered in Washington for the annual rally. About 67,300 attended the demonstration as protesters marched to Capitol Hill.
A Des Moines Planned Parenthood survey of 500 Iowa adults in Oct Nov 1988 shows 60 percent favor abortion privacy between woman and physician, 75 percent support access to abortion if life endangers the mother, 77 percent oppose abortion in cases of incest or rape, with several questions on school based birth control and government funding. Margin of error plus or minus 4 percent.
Jill June of Planned Parenthood of Mid Iowa warns supporters to stay vigilant as national antiabortion efforts intensify after a Supreme Court case review. A poll cited shows 60 percent of Iowans favor abortion as a private decision for the woman.
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