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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 06, 2001
Page
2
Mike Deupree weighs a proposed city taxi ordinance change to ban smoking in cabs. He contrasts smoker and anti-smoker concerns, notes limited non smoking options in Cedar Rapids, and argues the issue favors customer choice in public conveyances.
President Bashar Assad greeted Pope John Paul II in Damascus urging him to side with Arabs in the Israel dispute. The pope arrived on a three nation tour asking for peace and cooperation, while revealing Parkinsons symptoms as he met Assad and toured a mosque in Syria.
Police said the wife of actor Robert Blake was shot once in the head while sitting in her car near a restaurant in Los Angeles. No arrest was reported. Blake, 67, later told officers he returned to the car after forgetting something and found his wife dying.
A front page photo caption in Saturday's Gazette misidentified the Linn Community Food Pantry. The Gazette will respond to accuracy complaints, with corrections or clarifications published in this space, phone 398-8313.
The Gazette urges readers to recycle and prints with soybean ink on recycled newsprint. It lists recycling drop sites at City Carton in Cedar Rapids and other locales, with contact numbers for subscription services and postal details.
President Bush and Democratic leaders issued weekly bilingual radio addresses celebrating Cinco de Mayo. Bush spoke in both English and Spanish about shared heritage while Democrats led by Richard Gephardt criticized his actions, underscoring Hispanic outreach as a key political effort.
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