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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1988
Page
3
The House backed a bill to convert the Veterans Administration into the 14th Cabinet department. The measure passed by voice vote and was sent to the Senate. President Reagan supports the bill which would take effect next March.
Hollywood records the demolition of Schwab's Pharmacy, a famed stop for stars like Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe, to make way for a $40 million shopping complex. Del Simmons of the Glenn Miller Band played Auld Lang Syne as the old drug store vanished.
Massachusetts bans on smoking by future police officers and firefighters on and off the job sparked resentment and predict legal challenges. The measure, first of its kind, aims to reduce health care and pension costs and faces union opposition as unconstitutional intrusion into private life.
State environmental officials reported a Clinton Township home with radon levels 800 times the federal safety standard. Acting DEP commissioner Christopher Daggett said the finding may represent the highest radon level ever detected in a residence.
Algeria proclaimed a state of emergency and curfew to quell rioters in Algiers for a third straight day in protests over prices and unemployment. The military command said rioters damaging property would be fired on as President Chadli Bendjedid placed all administrative and security authorities under military control.
The Revolutionary Justice Organization warned they will use all cards to thwart proposals for U.N. troops policing Lebanon's presidential elections. The typewritten Arabic statement was delivered to An-Nahar with a photo of American hostage Joseph James Cicippio.
At the Labour Party conference delegates defied leadership to vote for Britain to end its nuclear bases and weapons within the first term of a Labour government. The decision follows polls showing the policy contributed to Labour's recent electoral defeats by Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives.
Defense officials said the first phase of the Strategic Defense Initiative could cost 69 billion instead of 115 billion, with deployment possible in the late 1990s. Senator Sam Nunn urged skepticism as costs often rise in production. Fewer than 200 carrier vehicles would carry multiple SBIs, and a streamlined satellite system would save money.
Five cloistered nuns at the Monastery of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel in Morris Township resist a church relocation order. They joined in protest against modern intrusions including television, snacks, and lighting after a new prioress was appointed by the diocese. The sisters seek Vatican intervention to stop eviction threats.
New York Attorney General Robert Abrams released a 170 page grand jury report stating Tawana Brawley’s rape allegations were false and that her advisers Al Sharpton C Vernon Mason and Alton Maddox fueled racial tension. The panel found no sexual assault and noted Brawley’s history of punishment by her mother and her mother’s boyfriend.
More than 100,000 demonstrators besieged the Communist Party headquarters in Novi Sad and forced the resignation of Vojvodina's provincial leadership. The event marked a victory for Slobodan Milosevic as he presses Serbia's claim to control Kosovo and Vojvodina amid economic crisis and rising nationalism.
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