Rural Iowa phones win FCC approval for lower rates
The FCC approved a plan to give about 156 000 rural Iowa telephone users access to competitive long distance services. 135 rural companies will use Iowa Network Services Inc to build a $24 million optical fiber network linking exchanges with a Des Moines digital switch, enabling instant access to competing carriers.
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Washington
Tom Tauke
Iowa
Charles Grassley
FCC
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Groups hit malpractice profiteering
A Iowa coalition claims insurers reap large profits while exaggerating a medical malpractice crisis. They cited 1980 86 tort verdicts for victims totaling 1.? million and premiums far exceeding claims from 1975 86, urging rate rollbacks and rural aid. Iowa Insurance Commissioner counters with years showing high claim payouts by top insurers.
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Gazette
Des Moines Bureau
DES Moines
Chuck Gifford
United Auto Workers Community Action Program
Iowa
Gifford
William Hager
Iowa Insurance Division
Competency hearing held in mother's beating death
A Linn County court held a closed competency hearing for Yvette Myers, 31, convicted of second degree murder in the hammer beating death of her mother, Rosemary Myers, 60, in Cedar Rapids. A psychiatric evaluation was requested before sentencing.
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Yvette Myers
Linn County
Myers
Rosemary
Cedar Rapids
Lynne Brady
IOWA City researcher wins grants to study diet cancer therapy
University of Iowa scientist Dr. Andrew Yen receives two grants totaling over 260000 to test how diet and drugs may control cancer cell growth as alternatives to chemotherapy. The two year grants from American Institute for Cancer Research and the Council for Tobacco Research fund studies on vitamins and diet reversing leukemia cell behavior and how drugs affect cancer cells. Yen notes work on DNA replication spans eight years.
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Gazette
Johnson County
Iowa City
University of Iowa
Andrew Yen
U of I College of Medicine
Yen
American Institute For Cancer Research
Council For Tobacco Research
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