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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1988
Page
3
An experimental contraceptive vaccine blocked fertility in both female and male guinea pigs. Researchers say the approach could one day work for humans, offering a method that prevents fertilization rather than embryo development. Other scientists note potential acceptability advantages.
Authorities dropped the weapons possession charge against syndicated columnist Carl Rowan after last week's hung jury. District of Columbia corporation counsel Frederick Cooke said the district cannot obtain a fair hearing, though he believes Rowan committed the offenses.
Melody Baldwin 29 underwent sterilization at Wishard Memorial Hospital after her half brother said she sought the procedure to win leniency from Marion Superior Court Judge Roy Jones. The judge had indicated he would show leniency if she could not have more children while sentencing for neglect leading to her 4-year-old son's death.
In Algiers hundreds of youths largely students and schoolboys set cars ablaze and smashed shop windows. Police stood by as inflation fears and wage cuts spurred the citywide unrest.
The Reagan administration proposed that the United States and the Soviet Union allow the World Court to arbitrate a defined set of disputes and commit to accepting its verdict. The plan follows U S rejection of World Court jurisdiction in the Nicaragua case two years earlier and responds to Mikhail Gorbachev’s call for expanded compulsory jurisdiction in specified areas of international law.
Vadim Medvedev, newly named Politburo member and head of a party line commission, told visiting political scientists that communism is in crisis and called for radical market ideas and borrowing from both other socialist nations and the capitalist West. He rejects a world struggle with the West and signals a reformist tilt after last week's leadership shake-up.
Preliminary counts from 79 tables indicate Military President Augusto Pinochet with a yes lead to extend his rule to 1997. Early tallies report 10,628 yes to 7,511 no with 168 blank and 222 mismarked ballots amid a massive peaceful turnout of about 7.4 million registered voters.
Baltimore police shut a drug operation that handed out coupons for a free bag of marijuana or a one dollar discount. Five people were arrested after officers seized 88 small marijuana bags, about a gram of cocaine, and $365 in cash following an undercover buy.
A Detroit case reports a 3 year old who killed his father during a beating of the mother. Prosecutors say the child could not form intent and will face no charges. The boy, now four, killed 47 year old Sherwood Cannon on June 18.
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