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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1987
Page
4
The city planned a Bob Hope Day at Stephen F. Austin University after the mayor declared a day in his honor. Promoters canceled the Friday performance due to low ticket sales, and the council has no plans to alter the declaration.
Bruce Springsteen and crew began filming outside a dilapidated Asbury Park arcade on Thursday, with deputy director Garrett Giberson noting the shoot would run through the night. The project is tied to his latest album, with nearby film work for Home Boy starring Mickey Rourke at a nearby amusement park set.
Actress Amelia Prentice performs in the Broadway show Starlight Express and breaks a prette at a New York celebrity gathering for the 11th annual Great American Smokeout. The popular toy also gave up smoking.
The Reagan Appointees Alumni Organization formed by former Reagan appointees held its first annual meeting at the Heritage Foundation. Board additions include John Black Martin Anderson Fred Fielding John Lehman Alan Keyes Wendy Borcherdt with Jeane Kirkpatrick already on the board.
George Seawright, 36, a former Protestant city council member who once called for Catholics to be burned, was shot in the head and critically wounded in Belfast. The Irish People's Liberation Organization claimed responsibility, saying the attack targeted a prominent Catholic faction critic. Seawright was moved for neurosurgery with his wife fearing paralysis if he survives.
The National Organization for Women vows to oppose Supreme Court nominee Anthony Kennedy calling him a "disaster" for women's issues. NOW President Molly Yard says a review of his opinions shows he is a sexist and unwilling to aid equality. Senate Judiciary Committee plans hearings likely to begin around January 20 with votes in early February.
In Washington DC this week he emcees the Miss Indian USA Pageant and will host the Mr. America Pageant December 14 to 18 in Atlantic City. He has previously presided over the 1988 Mother Daughter Pageant.
Investigators weigh turbulence as a factor in Continental Flight 1713 crash at Stapleton International Airport in a snowstorm. The DC-9 flipped and landed upside down. twenty eight people died and at least five of 21 hospitalized were in critical condition.
The Senate approved a major rewrite of the long term nuclear waste program as part of a 15.9 billion energy and water bill. It abandons the 1982 two site plan and moves to a single repository likely in Nevada to be completed after 2000. The measure funds the Energy Department and keeps N Reactor shutdown at Hanford.
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