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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1986
Page
4
Sir Richard Attenborough begins filming Asking for Trouble in Zimbabwe with Denzel Washington as Steve Biko. The project aims to spark international outrage over South Africa's racial policies as Zimbabwe contributes about 20 percent of the $22 million budget.
University of Arizona researchers using a radio telescope captured the collapse of a giant gas cloud into a star like object about 520 light years away in the constellation Ophiuchus. The embryonic core gathers material and marks the first direct view of stellar birth, with findings to appear in Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Lorell Smith, 23, left Arlington Hospital with her infant Jennifer Renee after a woman in a nurse’s uniform abducted the child days earlier. Valery Holbert, 22, a former hospital employee, was charged with abduction and released on personal recognizance. Police had not yet established a motive.
Greeneville Tennessee. Parents claim the Hawkins County school district uses a 1983 Holt reading series that promotes occultism evolution and humanism. Vicki Frost testified that lessons teach skepticism of religion and imply self salvation, prompting a court battle for alternative texts.
Raymond Loewy, famed for appliances, trains, ships and the Lucky Strike advertising image, died in Monaco at age 92 from natural causes. Born in Paris in 1893, he moved to the United States in 1919 and built Ray mond Loewy Associates with offices worldwide.
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