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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1989
Page
3
A USAir Piedmont flight from Baltimore to New York was delayed over an hour when a four foot snake was spotted in the cabin. Crew removed three seats to capture a harmless gopher snake and determine how it entered the plane.
American burn experts flew to the Ural Mountains on Sunday to treat hundreds of victims of a gas explosion that engulfed two trains in flames on June 4. Official media said more than 400 people died and the toll may rise without immediate treatment for severely burned patients.
Colorado Governor Roy Romer demands state inspectors access to Rocky Flats air and water discharges and random entry rights to enforce environmental safeguards at the plutonium facility run by DOE. He warns the Health Department could revoke the plant's license if federal action fails to change practices amid an FBI affidavit alleging false statements and environmental violations.
Secretary Jack Kemp voiced outrage over allegations of embezzlement at HUD with several agents placed on leave. Washington officials audit and investigations spread to Denver Houston New Orleans and Los Angeles. A Maryland escrow agent known as Robin HUD is accused of diverting millions to aid the poor.
In Joplin Missouri a man named Jerry Middleswart revived about 40 minutes after doctors had declared him dead from an electrical jolt at a veterinary clinic in Oswego Kansas. He was on a respirator in critical condition at St. John's Regional Medical Center with brain damage suspected though extent unknown.
Zahra Mustafavi said Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini endured five heart attacks in the ten days after stomach cancer surgery on May 23. He died June 3 at a small clinic near his Tehran home where 40 Iranian physicians oversaw his care and a hidden videotaping system recorded his final days. The clinic had been controlled by his medical team since his first major heart attack nine years earlier.
In Columbus Ohio ten inmates being moved between jails learned to jam a cuff swivel link through a clip hole and, with a wrist turn, shear the chain so all prisoners escape. Sheriff Earl Smith warns officers nationwide of the danger.
The Navy will store 110 pound gunpowder charges differently during maintenance of the battleship Wisconsin after fatalities aboard the Iowa. Unlike the Iowa era storage on uncooled barges at Yorktown, Wisconsin will use cooled, ventilated storage as crews move the powder away from uncooled barges. The 1989 Iowa explosion killed 47 sailors in turret No 2.
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