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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1985
Page
4
Holden Massachusetts adopts a contract barring new police hires from smoking whether on or off duty. The 13 current officers are exempt, future recruits face discipline for smoking, and the town weighs legal risks as civil liberties leaders question potential lawsuits over firing vs hiring non smokers.
Former Sen John Sparkman, 81, longtime Alabama congressman and Adlai Stevenson’s 1952 Democratic running mate, died Saturday at Big Springs Manor Nursing Home after a possible heart attack. His wife and daughter survive. funeral plans not announced. Gov George Wallace called him one of Alabama’s most distinguished citizens. Sparkman had been elected to the House in 1936.
Dallas Times Herald reports a decade after Gary Gilmore’s 1977 Utah firing squad that race bias persists in death penalty use. The study traces post 1972 rulings, showing killers of whites face far higher death penalties than killers of blacks across Maryland Arkansas and 32 states with Death Rows.
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