20 Jul 1984
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1984
Page
1
The week at the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco yields mixed reviews with boos for Mondale, internal disagreements over immigration, and strong speeches by Mario Cuomo and Jesse Jackson. The piece laments party disunity while praising standout oratory and hints at Reagan’s appeal.
Dover dockers defied their union to lift the four day ban on freight ships while other British ports kept the strike. Truckers still faced blockades at Calais and Dover ferries resumed service to Calais as convoys loaded for the crossing. Thatcher warned unions risk emergency powers to keep supplies moving.
Washington officials say Israel and the United States are narrowing military planning to counter the Soviet Union in the region, signaling a shift from traditional land and air wars against Arab states and alarming Israeli commanders.
London reports the most powerful British earthquake as buildings shuddered and chimneys toppled across western Britain and the east coast of Ireland. A witness noted the event was extraordinarily large by British standards, expecting such a tremor only once per century.
Penthouse publisher Robert Guccione announced nude photos of Vanessa Williams will appear in the September issue. The images show Williams, the first Black Miss America, nude and with another woman, taken before her crowning last September. Williams’s publicist said she insisted on the shoot.
In Managua Daniel Ortega accuses the Reagan administration of state terrorism for backing anti Sandinista rebels and extending Nicaragua’s state of emergency by three months. He says measures will ease censorship and travel limits to protect Nov 4 elections while opposition leaders call concessions insufficient.
In Ukiah California six armed men seized 15 bags of currency from a Brink's armored car after ambushing it with gunfire. A sign read give up or die. Loss amount not disclosed. Nearby, an explosion and fire at a natural gas measuring station near Hebron North Dakota killed one worker and injured five others, one critically. The blast occurred about 12:30 p.m ten miles northwest of Hebron. In Chicago Illinois deaths among babies aged four weeks to one year have fallen sharply over the past two decades, yet black infants die at more than twice the rate of white infants. The drop is linked largely to fewer fatal infections, with improved socioeconomic conditions and healthcare access aiding improvements. Dr Myron Adams and the CDC led the study.
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