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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 2003
Page
5
Tobacco farmers face shrinking demand and tighter controls, with a 3 percent cut in acreage to 413 710, the smallest crop since 1874. USDA economist Thomas Capehart notes litigation against cigarette makers and higher taxes as key factors, along with looming quota dismantling.
USDA and ERS note quotas aimed at protecting tobacco price floors and limiting overproduction. If prices drop, growers may access government loans while demand falls as U S manufacturers buy more leaf from Zimbabwe and Brazil. This year flue cured quota drops to 540 million pounds from 582 million last year. A 2001 presidential panel estimated buying out quotas at 16 billion over five years if three quarters quit farming, suggesting funding via cigarette tax hike from 34 to 51 cents per pack.
Iraqi trader Khraisan al Abally says U S interrogators kept him awake for eight days forced him to kneel naked bound hand and foot with a bag over his head after a raid on his home April 30. He reported the abuse to AP and Amnesty International criticized U S techniques.
Al Abally recounts being bound blindfolded, kicked, deprived of sleep, forced to watch a strobe light, and blasted with loud music during interrogation. He says knees bled and swelled from restraints while U.S. officials claim legal methods and adherence to the rule of law. Human rights groups warn these practices amount to cruel treatment violating the Geneva Conventions.
Pentagon findings reveal 50 secret tests from 1962 to 1973 involving 5,842 service members. Some participants were uninformed. tests included nerve agents in Alaska and Hawaii and later non lethal bacteria. Project 112 and SHAD aimed to study weapon use and protections, with later admissions of real agents used.
Mount Vernon native Jim Swift recalls Katharine Hepburn as a luminous star who lived simply off screen with Spencer Tracy. He notes Hepburn’s early Cedar Rapids visit in 1940 at the Iowa Theatre and a signed Playbill on display at Theatre Cedar Rapids.
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