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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1985
Page
2
PARADE magazine weighs its choices for the 57th Academy Awards with few sure bets. The magazine points to Amadeus and A Passage to India as the top contenders for best picture, signaling a competitive field this year.
Ryszard Kapuscinski revisits decay themes in his new book Shah of Shahs after earlier works on Haile Selassie. The reviewer notes provocative claims about the shah's family and poison in a milk bath, framing the memoir as another cycle of decline.
Iowa farmers including the Bridgewaters of Blairstown protest loopholes in farm liability coverage. They call for changes to state insurance laws to favor conscientious farmers over owners who neglect buildings, aiming for reforms.
Cedar Rapids neighbors in Oak Hill report months of vandalism and petty theft. Police advised inaction but residents now take action to curb the disturbances. Page 14A Metro-lowa.
Iowa City cartoonist Berke Breathed’s Bloom County mocks a Dewar’s whisky ad in a single panel featuring Steve Dallas. The Washington Post Writers Group reports 10 editors complained, while syndicate lawyers deem it acceptable. Breathed defends satire and planned future strips on alcohol and tobacco advertising.
Roger Re, 41, long in Comegys Building at Delaware State Hospital since 1978 for murder of his estranged wife, was arrested Saturday morning on a second degree escape charge. He was held in lieu of $100,000 bond at Gander Hill Prison after surrendering to the public defender and deputy attorney general. He had been reported missing Thursday after authorities suspended three hospital administrators for granting him extraordinary privileges.
Imelda Marcos, 55, wife of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, is in the United States for glaucoma treatment. The disclosure came in Baguio after she left Manila March 12 to attend Konstantin Chernenko's funeral in Moscow and travel onward.
Patricia Roberts Harris, who rose from Pullman waiter’s daughter to two Cabinet posts under President Carter, died of cancer at 60 in Washington. She served as HUD secretary then led Health and Human Services after the 1980 department split. She also held roles as ambassador to Luxembourg and Howard University law dean.
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