17 May 1987
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1987
Page
1
Forecast calls for mostly sunny skies in Iowa with rising humidity and a slight chance of late afternoon thunderstorms. Temperatures reach the middle to upper 80s as the day progresses. Page reference 15A.
Moscow reports the Energia, the world’s most powerful rocket, successfully tested from Baikonur. The two stage, 197 foot tall craft weighed over 2000 tons with eight hydrogen engines and could lift a 100-ton shuttle into orbit, marking a major milestone after earlier failures.
Fiji's Lt Col Rabuka, leading a bloodless takeover, pledges to bar Indians from political power while promising economic roles for them. Indian crowds protest at Suva, as Rabuka announces a new constitution to secure ethnic Fijian dominance after the April 11 election.
Reighard Fields, a 38 year old Vietnam veteran from Clarence, Iowa, heads a four man USSF strike team. He says the United States Special Field Forces is a nationwide volunteer corps to back National Guard in a worst case communist threat on American soil. The group is reportedly monitoring a suspected foreign nationals group in Iowa City tied to drugs for money for weapons.
Bruce Hutchison 37 of Newport Beach and John Sparkman 39 of Costa Mesa were jailed on suspicion of kidnapping after allegedly beating Anthony Scimore 35 and placing him in a cage with a black wolf at Hutchison's ranch. Scimore escaped. Wolf conduct may violate wildlife rules. Additional arrests were made for kidnapping in Twentynine Palms.
Springfield developer John Q. Hammons plans a 14 million nine story hotel on 8.5 acres between Collins Road and Park Place NE in northeast Cedar Rapids. The 260 room facility will front Collins Road overlooking Noelridge Park and feature a 1500 seat convention center a bar a coffee shop a dining room and a pool. Ground to be purchased from Terry Bjornsen with construction expected to start soon and completion about 15 months after. Hammons specializes in building and operating his own hotels across 28 states and has not yet named the eventual operator.
A light joke notes that as fad diets rise in popularity the sleek may seem poised to inherit the earth, implying a humorous trend where slender trends rule.
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