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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1989
Page
3
The FDA says wearing soft contact lenses for more than seven days without cleaning raises risk of a sight threatening disease. Certified letters to manufacturers request labels advising patients not to wear extended wear or disposable lenses beyond a week to prevent potential blindness.
Congress granted the late Rep. Claude Pepper a rare national farewell in the Capitol Rotunda with tributes from the Senate and House for his 88 years of public service. Pepper was known as a champion for the elderly and downtrodden and earned international recognition. A separate federal indictment charged a Soviet export importer in Moscow and four businessmen from Louisiana, Norway, and Japan in a complex sonar smuggling scheme to the Soviet Union.
Provincial governments opened soup kitchens and Congress expanded social benefits to end a week of food rioting that left 15 dead while looting supermarkets and other stores. President elect Menem met with outgoing Alfonsin and vowed cooperation on the crisis but refused early office.
President Bush told cheering Germans in Mainz that Europe should be whole and free and called on Mikhail Gorbachev to open the iron curtain. He demanded the Berlin Wall be dismantled and urged self-determination for Germany and Eastern Europe. Bush flies to London for talks with Thatcher after the Mainz address.
A study in the American Sociological Review finds welfare mothers in Wisconsin have lower fertility compared with state and national rates. Using 2,796 Wisconsin welfare households and 965 women aged 18 to 44, researchers report 45.8 births per 1,000 women annually versus 75.3 for Wisconsin women overall and 71.1 nationwide.
Surgeon General C Everett Koop called for a broad war on drunken driving urging curbs on TV beer ads and celebrity endorsements, ending happy hours, higher taxes, lower legal blood alcohol levels to 0.04 by 2000, and a nickel a drink fee for impaired driving programs. He stopped short of banning ads but urged voluntary restrictions and cutbacks on sports sponsorships with alcohol brands.
Japan's Liberal Democratic Party selects Foreign Minister Sousuke Uno 66 as the likely successor to Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita after his resignation over the Recruit scandal. Uno faces opposition within the party and a crucial summer election for half the upper house.
A Boston study shows that high risk individuals may carry the AIDS virus without detectable antibodies. Among homosexual men practicing risky sex, about a quarter were infected yet appeared antibody negative on standard tests, revealing silent infections.
Boris Yeltsin told the Congress of People's Deputies that the presidency is concentrating power and must yield to the parliament. He blamed the Communist Party and Mikhail Gorbachev for economic decline and called for the Transfer of authority and annual presidential referendums during the inaugural session broadcast nationwide.
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