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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1985
Page
2
Rebels dressed as soldiers opened fire in Anuradhapura killing at least 150 people including children and workers. The attack prompted a curfew, military patrols, and an emergency cabinet meeting as police recovered bodies in a wildlife sanctuary.
Gov. Rudy Perpich announced a Minnesota project to build a private endowment funded torture therapy center in the Minneapolis Saint Paul area. A task force said the center would serve about 100 victims yearly for physical, psychological, and rehabilitative care and operate without government or UN funds.
An F-20 Tigershark prototype crashed during a Goose Bay practice flight killing the pilot. Northrop said no buyers have been found for the jet which was being readied for the Paris Air Show and will not be represented there. The incident marks the second F-20 crash in seven months.
In Maywood Illinois a judge acquitted Gerald Pett one executive but allowed three other Film Recovery Systems officials to defend themselves in the nations first murder trial of businessmen for a workplace death. Pett was vice president and plant manager of the now defunct firm. The four men faced murder and reckless conduct charges tied to a Polish immigrant workers cyanide poisoning. Film Recovery used cyanide to recover silver from X-ray film. Meanwhile in Virginia City Montana a 20 year old mountain man Dan Nichols was convicted of kidnapping and wounding a woman athlete and faces over ten years. his father Don Nichols 54 faces trial later this summer on similar charges.
In New York two passengers were held up by masked highwaymen in a horse drawn carriage in Central Park early Tuesday. Police said this was the fifth such robbery in a month with four successful heists and one thwarted when the driver fled. Lt Joseph McNulty noted bandannas obscured the robbers faces and police believe the same pair conducted all five incidents.
Washington based Census Bureau report shows 25.7 percent of families with children have a single parent in 1984, up from 21.5 percent in 1980 and 12.9 percent in 1970. Premarital birth separation and divorce drive the rise, with blacks nearing a 60 percent rate.
Gov. Harry Hughes took control of Maryland's 102 privately insured thrift institutions and called a special session to debate a new deposit insurance plan. An executive order set a $1000 monthly withdrawal cap per account, excluding new deposits, amid a $630 million drain and $370 million Federal Reserve borrowing.
Three medical authorities told a Senate subcommittee that Herbalife very low calorie formulas may be unsafe and offer little proof of weight loss. They warned users face nausea diarrhea and electrolyte loss while asserting no evidence Diet pills reliably burn calories. Herbalife representatives defended the products as safe and effective with proper use.
Democrats on the House Budget Committee approved a deficit reduction plan that would save 56 billion dollars in 1986 without tax increases or Social Security cuts. The package freezes military spending next year while preserving low income programs, prompting a clash with a Senate defense-hiking approach.
In Brakpan near Tsakane, three bombs exploded before 1 a.m. at police and court offices during Andries Raditsela's funeral. No injuries or claims of responsibility reported as black unions encouraged work stoppages and attendance by about 300,000 workers.
Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko met for over six hours in Vienna. They lectured each other on topics from Soviet human rights to the U.S. Star Wars program. No concrete progress was reported and the gap remains on arms control talks stalled at Geneva.
Western diplomats report Soviet armored units killed over 1,000 people in attacks on 12 villages in Laghman province amid Afghan guerrilla activity. Survivors say tanks and infantry leveled villages, with many women and children among the dead, the raids occurring March 11 to 18. Senate approves 15 million dollars in humanitarian aid to Afghans as part of a larger foreign aid bill.
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