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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1988
Page
13
Nathan awakens on day 19 after an 18 day coma. He battles to relearn walking talking and eating with family friends and Regis High School and All Saints supporting him. Doctors say rehabilitation may take up to two years but he remains determined and optimistic.
Reports say young monks directed demonstrators near a temple as crowds chanted for Tibet and against Chinese policy. Police used tear gas. casualties include monks, policemen, and civilians, with clashes near Jokhang temple marking ongoing unrest in Tibet.
Iran accuses the Soviet Union of supplying Iraq with surface to surface missiles used in the war of the cities in a formal protest to the Soviet ambassador Tehran blames forces opposed to Soviet Iranian rapprochement for protests. Soviet officials deny selling weapons to either side and experts note the missiles resemble a Soviet Scud B.
Two single engine planes collided near Island Home Airport Knoxville Tennessee on a Sunday afternoon killing two occupants in the Beechcraft 77. The Cessna 150 landed safely with its pilot David Cockrell and passenger Jack Pollard uninjured. Witnesses saw the Beechcraft appear to have a student and instructor aboard. The airport operates without a control tower with flights under visual rules.
Des Moines police arrested 28 year old Robert Perry Moreland on a first degree murder charge in a drug related shooting that killed Larry Daye as he ran across a north side yard toward his car. Daye was shot around 5 p.m. Saturday. Moreland was to be arraigned today.
Laura Salant and Morgan Lamb confessed to false personation after Salant, seven months pregnant, took the bar exam posing as her husband. Salant scored third out of 7,688. Lamb faces up to four years. Salant received three years probation and a $2500 fine. disbarment decision pending.
The act sets phased licensing across states with minimum federal standards and permits 16 year olds to be licensed in some cases. Farmers within Illinois may avoid crossing state lines, but once they enter Missouri or Indiana they must be 21. Rep Slattery argues exemptions for farm truck use under 15,000 miles yearly.
Two separate accidents in eastern Iowa left six people badly injured. A Traer area crash on County Road T-69 sent 16 year old Todd McCrary to Covenant Medical Center with critical injuries. Troy Pearson and five other passengers were taken to Waterloo area hospitals, with McCrary in critical condition. A Dunne vehicle slowdown preceded another ATV loss of control near an undisclosed location. A Stockton man, Richard Schumaker, 20, was listed in serious condition after a tire blowout caused his car to go into a ditch. The Tama and Muscatine counties Sheriff departments continue investigations.
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