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08 May 1988
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Cedar Rapids Gazette in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1988
Page
1
Polish striker: Government has relented at Lenin shipyard
In Gdansk six day strike at Lenin shipyard ends with management broadly agreeing to raise pay by at least 38 dollars a month reinstate fired Solidarity activists and grant amnesty for about 1 000 strikers. Strike committee chair Alojzy Szablewski reports progress and a second meeting planned after Mass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gazette Wire Services
Gdansk
Poland
Lenin
Alojzy Szablewski
Solidarity
Lech Walesa
Szablewski
Piotr Konopka
Walesa
Konopka
14A
Vulcan Materials Buys B L Anderson Co Operations
Vulcan Materials Co of Birmingham Alabama purchases B L Anderson Co a 36 year Cedar Rapids family business. The sale follows board approval at both firms with price undisclosed and 100 to 120 employees affected. Anderson cites positive development for Cedar Rapids and Eastern Iowa and notes Vulcan’s eight divisions and leading role in chemicals and aggregates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George C. Ford
Edir
B.L. Anderson Co
Cedar Rapids
Vulcan Materials Co
Birmingham, Ala
B.L. Anderson
Vulcan Materials
Peoples Bank
Garrison
Lisbon
Maquoketa
Montour
Robins
Vinton
Wyoming
Thomas Anderson
Iowa
Anderson
14A
Virus prompts call for safe computing practices
Electronic virus concerns prompt Apple and other experts to urge safe computing practices. Apple security heads work with the CDC to apply epidemiology to tracing Macintosh viruses, as viruses spread via disks and programs. Some are harmless pranks, others cause real damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Apple Computer Inc
Centers For Disease Control
CDC
Atlanta
Cynthia Macon
Apple
Chuckles Row Delivers Witty Diplomacy Quips
A humor column presents a diplomat as a guide who steers you with tactful direction. It then offers a quip about feeling treated like a dog’s life where others act as fleas.
Bush told of Noriega drug dealings
Vice President Bush learned of allegations linking Gen Manuel Noriega to drug trafficking from Panama ambassador Edward Everett Briggs before 1985, though aides say he did not view the cables. Officials later said Briggs relayed the substance of dispatches in a December meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gazette Wire Services
Washington
Bush
U.S
Panama
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Noriega
Florida
Los Angeles
United States
Nor
Edward Everett Briggs
Briggs
State Department
Hugo Spadafora
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