Fatal plane crash caps Quad City air show weekend
The Quad City Air Show weekend featured a Saturday B 52 bomber flyover but was marred by a fatal plane crash on Sunday. Details on page 12C.
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Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1991
Page
1
Mile Long Bratwurst Breaks World Record in Erfurt
In Erfurt Germany sausage chefs claim the world’s largest bratwurst stretched a mile 132 feet served to festivalgoers. ADN reports the one mile 132 foot link tops Switzerland’s previous record by 1145 feet and required over a ton of pork and pounds of patience.
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Erfurt
Germany
ADN
Switzerland
Dollar coin push rekindles Washington portrait change
Washington is at the center of a new drive to replace the one dollar bill with a dollar coin bearing George Washington. A coalition led by blind groups and transit advocates backs the bill reintroduced by Senator Pete Domenici with 22 co sponsors.
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George Washington
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Pete Domenici
R. N.M
Senate
Gazette Promotes Soybean Ink and Recycling Drive
The Gazette supports sustainable printing using soybean ink and recycled newsprint. Readers are urged to recycle by dropping newspapers in collection boxes at City Carton, 4250 Sixth St SW, and Econo Foods, 1800 51st St NE.
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City Carton
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Todays Chuckle about honesty in winter interactions
A light humor item notes some people are as honest as the day is long in winter, framing wit on character during cold months.
Santa Rosa critiques Cedar Rapids schools in California series
A Santa Rosa Press Democrat multi part series compares Santa Rosa and Cedar Rapids Community Schools. Cedar Rapids is portrayed as higher performing with strong leadership and parental involvement while California schools face state mandates and tighter budgets. The piece notes preschools, basics in elementary schools, and Metro High School offerings but also cites funding pressures and potential program cuts if measures fail.
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Garette
Cedar Rapids
California
Santa Rosa
Iowa
U.S
Stephen Daeschner
Daeschner
Klose
Metro High School
Homecomings and hardships from Desert Storm toll on families
War strains family ties as troops return to marriages in upheaval. Cedar Rapids support group plans handle divorces among three military couples. At Fort Benning counseling visits surge from 25 to over 100 monthly as families adjust. Army leaders frame this as a success story of seeking help and adapting to change.
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Donna Lee Olson
U.S
Cedar Rapids
Berni Donnelly
Fort Benning
Richard Roggia
Roggia
Roggin
Ziglers peace with war during Desert Storm furlough
Karen Zigler, wife of Pfc. Gary Zigler, faces continued bills and hardship four months after the Kuwait conflict halted. Her husband’s one month furlough brings brief family time while they battle debt from war separation.
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Alker
Karen Zigler
Kuwait
Brad
Jesse
Tiffany
Pfc
Gary Zigler
Cedar Rapids
Zigler
Linn County
Saudi Arabia
Seven nations weigh IMF associate membership for Soviet Union
Finance ministers of the seven major industrial democracies signaled in London that the May summit would likely offer Moscow an associate IMF status linking technical help to reform, but without automatic funds. No firm aid plan was approved as Brady noted obstacles and further study. Gorbachev aims for broad Western aid at the London summit.
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Moscow
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U.S. Treasury
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Harvard University
European Bank For Reconstruction and Development
Brady
United States
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Germany
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Canada
Britain
Mikhail Gorbachev
Gorbachev
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Volcano may boost corn crop in Midwest after Pinatubo
University of Illinois physicist Paul Handler links Mount Pinatubo eruptions to global weather shifts. He says equatorial eruptions push aerosols to reflect sunlight, cool temps, shift the jet stream south, and bring more rainfall and higher corn yields in the central United States next growing season, followed by drought.
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Ind
Mount Pinatubo
Philippines
University of Illinois
Paul Handler
Handler
Central
United States
Midwest
Equator
Pumice Profit Hue: Aquino Offers Ash Based Goods
President Cory Aquino’s government considers turning Mount Pinatubo’s ash and pumice into whetstones bricks pendants souvenirs and construction materials to revive the damaged economy and support nearby U S bases. Spokesman Tomas Gomez says a use will be found.
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Mount Pinatubo
U.S
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Manila
Philippines
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