Farris to testify in Rohn triple murder trial in Iowa
Bruce Farris will testify next week that Michael Rohn fatally stabbed Jacalyn May and said he killed her two sons. The defense opened with claims of a love relation between Farris and the boys, amid a moved trial due to publicity.
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Newton
Iowa
Bruce Farris
Michael Rohn
Jacalyn May
Rohn
Michael Newmeister
Jasper County
Linn
Cedar Rapids
Miss May
Farris
Newmeister
Douglas Fuller
Fuller
May
Senate approves nerve gas program amid budget vote
The Senate backed a chemical weapons program 50 to 49 with VP Bush casting the deciding vote. It also refused to strip 5.2 billion dollars for B-1 bomber funding, a 68 to 30 tally, while House Democrats killed the nerve gas measure earlier.
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Washington
George Bush
Senate
Reagan
Pentagon
United States
Soviet Union
John Tower
R-Texas
Senate Armed Services Committee
House
Iowa
Roger Jepsen
Charles Grassley
Jepsen
Grassley
Walter Mondale
British vote against death penalty after Northern Ireland killings
In Belfast four UDR soldiers died when a 500 pound land mine exploded on a Tyrone road. IRA claimed responsibility for the attack, while two Catholic men were found shot in a Crossmaglen car, alleged informers executed. In London MPs rejected restoring capital punishment for murder.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
London
Britain
House of Commons
Ulster Defense Regiment
County Tyrone
Tyrone
Provisional
Irish Republican Army
UDR
Crossmaglen
South Armagh
IRA
Dialogues on Iowa education sought
A Iowa panel heard cautions about overreacting to the Nation at Risk report. Merrit Parsons warned that adopting all recommendations could push schools toward elitism and neglect equity for handicapped and other students. Robert Benton called for a series of statewide meetings to discuss improvements in graduation requirements foreign languages computer science and more classroom hours.
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Judy Daubenmier
Des Moines
Eau
America
Merrit Parsons
Pleasant Valley
Iowa Association of School Administrators
Parsons
Iowa Board of Public Instruction
National Commission On Excellence In Education
Robert Benton
Teen girl predicts pop star rise amid family dislike
A teenage girl chats with a friend about a new pop singer she believes will become very famous. She asserts the artist will be a big star, while adding that her father cannot stand him.
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Westdale
Special Gazette
Lisbon
Rensom
By Roland Krekeler
Senate UK
North Ireland
Ulster
East Iowa
Simmons Bridge
Greene
Marion
U.s.world
FDA
Federal Trade Commission
Cope
Sterling Drug Inc
Bristol-Myers Co
David A. Clanton
Terry Kelley
Sterling
Gazette
Paul Jen
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