Riots in India After Indira Gandhi Assassination
Riots and arson across six northern Indian cities leave 157 dead as mobs lynch Sikhs and burn shops and homes. Army in Delhi enforces shoot-to-kill orders amid curfew while Rajiv Gandhi appeals for peace.
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India
Gazette Wire Services
Delhi
Sol- Ni Diers
Indira Gandhi
Soviet Union
CIA
Washington
Moscow
State Department
Alan Romberg
Tikhonov
Rajiv Gandhi
Congress Party
Indore
Double Fatality on I 80 Involving Sturgis Men Kill Two
Two Sturgis men died when their westbound mini-van was struck head on by an eastbound semi on I 80 near Iowa City. Randy Meyers 25 was listed in serious condition at University Hospitals. The driver Ella Brokaw 48 and passenger Loras Koppes 43 survived with minor injuries.
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University Hospitals
Iowa City
Iowa State Patrol
Ella Brokaw
Scotch Grove
Brokaw
Loras Koppes
Cascade
Death by own action yields U of Iowa organ donation milestone
Janice Stallman, brain dead at Mercy Hospital Cedar Rapids, becomes the university program’s most productive donor, with kidneys heart corneas skin and pancreas recovered. Her pancreas may go to cousin Cindy Billingsley as recipients are sought for the other organs.
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Rick Smith Lazette
Janice Stallman
University of Iowa
Cedar Rapids’ Mercy Hospital
U of I’s
University Hospitals
Stall
Judge acquits father in python case in Iowa
Ottumwa doctors report Gerry Lloyd cleared of involuntary manslaughter after his 11 month old son Matthew was suffocated by a 10 foot python kept in a cardboard box at home. Judge James Rielly found the state failed to prove recklessness beyond a reasonable doubt. The trial ended after 314 days with Lloyd 26, and the case sets a standard for exotic pet care.
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Ottumwa
Gerry Lloyd
Lloyd
Wapello
James Rielly
Michael Winyard
Rielly
Vinyard
Wapello County
Richard Schlegel
State of Iowa
Schlegel
Matthew
Iowa Supreme Court
Winyard
You can't make a silk purse out of a son's ear
A wry saying about turning rough material into value, implying clever creation from unlikely material. The line evokes proverbs on resourcefulness and wit.
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