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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Mar 22, 1988

Page

3

Cancer group explores value of altered gene

Scientists redesign a potent endotoxin from Pseudomonas aeruginosa to target cancer cell receptors. In lab tests the engineered toxin killed cancer cells while sparing normal cells, a potential new route for breast, lung, and brain tumors.

Daytona Beach Fla Ira Pastan National Cancer Institute Pastan American Cancer Society Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Cancer Institute

Kapolei the second city a planned Hawaii resort hub

Honolulu officials and private developers push a new coastal municipality named Kapolei twenty miles from Waikiki. A two mile shoreline will host a $2 billion resort largely funded by Japanese capital. Planners forecast 150,000 residents within two decades.

Honolulu Waikiki Beach

Gulf attack leaves 54 missing after Iraqi tanker strikes

Shipping executives report Iranian gunboats attacked the Havglint 12 miles northwest of Dubai while Iraqi jets earlier bombed two Iranian tankers at Kharg island. Fifty four crewmen, many Iranian or Asian with one Swedish officer, are missing and presumed dead, the highest toll in the four year tanker war.

Manama Bahrain Persian Gulf Saudi Arabia Dubai Iran Gulf Foreign Ministry Associated Press Kharg Island

Mass Black Worker Strike Shuts Down South Africa

More than a million black workers joined a nationwide strike on the 28th anniversary of the Sharpeville Massacre to protest apartheid measures. In Port Elizabeth 80 to 90 percent stayed away. 40 to 90 percent in Johannesburg and the eastern Cape. Police and troops patrolled townships as buses and trains were stoned and classes disrupted at Westville University.

New York Times Sharpeville South Africa Port Elizabeth Johannesburg Cape Province Westville University Witwatersrand University Rosemary Hunter Robert Sobukwe Pan-Africanist Congress

Shultz and Shevardnadze Open Talks on Arms Shipments

Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze began 90 minutes of discussions in Washington focusing on Soviet arms shipments to Central America while aiming to advance a 30 to 50 percent cut in long range nuclear arms. They plan meetings over the next two days with a late May summit possible.

Washington George Shultz Eduard Shevardnadze Central America Shevardnadze Shultz U.S Reagan Mikhail Gorbachev

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