Baseball scores from a rugged day across leagues
American League games include Tigers 5 Mariners 4 in 14 innings, Twins 10 Yankees 5, Royals 6 Red Sox 3, Blue Jays 3 Angels 0, Athletics 13 Indians 4, Orioles 4 White Sox 3 in 14 innings, Rangers 3 Brewers 1. National League Dodgers 8 Expos 3, Pirates 1 Astros 0, Reds 6 Cubs 2, Mets 3 Braves 1, Giants 4 Phillies 2, Cardinals 4 Padres 0.
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National Dodgers
Expos
Pirates
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Reds
Cubs
Mets
Braves
Giants
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Padres
Waubeek Tractor Repair Shop Reopens In 1972
Rasdal column notes a long-dormant Waubeek tractor repair shop slowly awakens with a 1972 73 dated map titled Gomer and Goobers Garage. The feature hints at quiet community activity and a sense of timing in small-town life.
Iowa Medical Waste Project Aims at Cedar Rapids Center
Some of Iowa's medical waste will be treated at the new Iowa Medical Waste Reduction Center in Cedar Rapids when it opens later this year. Several Eastern Iowa hospitals are involved in the project. Details on page 1B.
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Iowa
Iowa Medical Waste Reduction Center
Cedar Rapids
Eastern Iowa
Freedom Fest proves a big success with rising attendance
Attendance at Freedom Fest surged this year, and organizers already plan the 1993 celebration. Details appear on page 3B.
Cubs and Cardinals Moved to the West in NL Realignment
Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent ordered the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals to switch from the East to the West in 1993 amid objections from both clubs. The shift follows the National League’s two team expansion. Details on page 1D.
Today’s Chuckle on School Reform Satire
A humorous line quips that without school improvements every child would receive a free education devoid of knowledge, poking fun at reform rhetoric. No factual event or entities beyond the general critique of education policy.
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America
Bever Park Candy Man Promotes Eye Pop Pers and Cry Babies
Ray Whittle has spent 13 summers selling sweets at Bever Park Cedar Rapids. Neighbors praise his Eye Pop pers and Cry Babies as summer favorites in Wednesday's Gazette.
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Ray Whittle
Cedar Rapids
Bever Park
Gazette
Rural Iowa to gain higher Medicaid payments for clinics
Fifty Iowa counties were named health professional shortage areas paving the way for rural clinics to receive higher Medicaid reimbursements. The plan, announced by Governor Branstad and awaiting federal approval, could double typical physician visit payments from 25 to 51 dollars and spur up to ten new clinics within a year.
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John Kirsch
Des Moines
Iowa
Christopher Atchison
State Department of Public Health
Louis Sullivan
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Branstad
Craig Thompson
Strawberry Point
Thompson
Atchison
Military action in spotlight at economic talks
Western leaders opened their 18th annual economic summit in Munich as Russia's troubles and possible U.N. action to speed aid to Yugoslavia dominated discussions. The United States backed a land corridor to Bosnia and signaled readiness to use naval and air power to protect relief efforts.
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Germany
Russia
U.N
Yugoslavia
Bush
Japan
Britain
France
Canada
Italy
United States
Bosnia
Marlin Fitzwater
Helmut Kohl
Treasury
Nicholas Brady
International Monetary Fund
Yeltsin
Soviet Bloc
Two High School Athletes Dead After Highway Crash
Cara Oltmann and Shore Young, former high school athletes, died in a Sunday crash on Highway 18 eight miles north of Elkader. Young’s sister Christine, 21, was in critical condition at University Hospitals Iowa City.
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Young
Highway 18
Elkader
Christine Young
University Hospitals
Iowa City
Great couple in fatal crash had Cedar Falls ties and future coaching dreams
Oltmann, 19, a Cedar Falls High School basketball star, and Young, 19, a Waterloo East and Kirkwood baseball player, were dating a year and planned to coach. They were returning from a cabin trip when their southbound truck collided with an oncoming vehicle at 11:36 p.m. Three others suffered minor injuries. two youths treated and released, another with a knee injury.
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Jenny Sandvold
Cedar Falls
Oltmann
Kirkwood Community College
Young
Evansdale
Waterloo East High
Kirkwood
Sandvold
Cara
Shore
University of Northern Iowa
UNI
Harpers Ferry
Jane Staff
Dawn Wede
Monona
Prairie du Chien
Wis.) Memorial Hospital
Noah Klinge
Farmersburg
Central Community Hospital
Elkader
First Life Term for Drug Kingpin in Iowa North District
Dennis G. Walkner, 38, of Rockwell, received a life sentence without parole for managing a continuing criminal enterprise involved in importing and distributing millions in methamphetamine in north-central Iowa from 1985 to 1991. He pleaded guilty to multiple counts and forfeited assets including a Rockwell home.
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Murphy
Walkner
California
Sor
Rockwell
Cerro Gordo County
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