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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1981
Page
3
Rita Jensen was dismissed from The Advocate of Stamford for providing inaccurate information about her roommate, radical murder suspect Katherine Boudin, the paper said Monday on page 4A.
Poland's Communist government announced it would send squads of soldiers into every town to sustain the crippled economy through winter and maintain public order. Dissidents and Solidarity leaders formed a new political group calling for true democracy and free elections, a challenge the government branded illegal.
Sports broadcaster Bryant Gumbel reached a contract agreement to replace Tom Brokaw as NBC News Today host and planned to sign within the next day or two. The page 4A note confirms the network’s decision and timing.
The AFL-CIO delegates supported a resolution urging President Reagan to end the vendetta against fired air traffic controllers. They rejected a nationwide support day for the strikers, arguing such action would condone illegal activity and urging legal remedies instead. Page 6A.
About 100 people marched through downtown Cedar Rapids to the federal building to support a woman's right to choose abortion, countered by about 30 pro life demonstrators. An assortment of weather and local items follow in other sections.
In Psychology Today, Dr. G Alan Marlatt and Dr. Damaris Rohsenow report that people who believe they drink alcohol act as if intoxicated. They gave tonic water to those who thought it was vodka and tonic, finding reduced anxiety, increased aggression and arousal, supporting a strong placebo effect in drinking behavior.
The Defense Department elevates a Key West task force to a full Caribbean command effective December 1. Rear Adm. Robert McKenzie will lead from Key West with no permanent forces. naval units and Joint Chiefs support can be called as needed. The move follows concerns over Soviet arms flow to Nicaragua and El Salvador and signals cautious planning rather than an imminent blockade.
In Boone County three men died and a fourth survived after a grain auger they were moving touched a 14 400 volt service line. Charles Tiede 37 James Nolan 35 William Streeter 25 all of Albion and Primrose died. Jim Kennedy 24 Cedar Rapids was treated for burns and is in good condition.
Robert Diaz, 43, a male nurse from Apple Valley, was arrested Monday night on an arrest warrant and charged with 12 murders by overdose using lidocaine. The alleged killings occurred across three California counties.
Des Moines reports two Iowa courses criticized by Rep. Karen Mann drew high marks from teachers and parents in surveys cited by Sen. Ted Anderson. Grant Wood Agency course had 941 participants with 76 percent saying they were better teachers and 95 percent finding it worthwhile for certificate renewal. North Tama course drew 37 favorable responses from 44 parents, with one noting it helped a child resist tobacco peer pressure.
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