10 Oct 1988
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1988
Page
1
The Oakland A's secure a 4-1 win over the Boston Red Sox to complete a four game series sweep and advance to the World Series. Dennis Eckersley earns MVP honors after retiring the side in the ninth for his fourth save.
A lighthearted line notes that crowds admire a brass band on the podium at political rallies because it lets them take the bull by the horns, mixing humor with campaign spectacle.
In a telecast from the Five Flags Center co sponsored by KDUB and the League of Women Voters Democratic challenger Eric Tabor and Republican Tom Tauke debated tax and spending where Tauke backs no new taxes if spending grows 3 to 4 percent a year while Tabor calls for cutting military outlays and Congress expenses. He also criticized Tauke for a 12 000 pay raise after advocating a spending freeze.
President Raif Dizdarevic warned a nationwide state of emergency could be declared if protests over inflation and ethnic issues do not stop. Demonstrations overwhelmed Belgrade with police at roadblocks around Titograd Montenegro after a hunger strike and riots seeking ouster of local Communist leaders. Three hospitalized in Nikšić as authorities promise leadership changes at an Oct. 17 party meeting.
Art Swanson of Cedar Rapids explains apple pressing to spectators at Seminole Valley Farm's Apple Day. Meghan Phelan, 9, assists by turning the press crank as Swanson adds apples to the hopper.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics reports a 1.8 percent rise in U S crime in 1987, ending a five year decline. Personal and household crimes climbed by about 613000 to over 347 million, with increases across four categories including rape. Local patterns show West highest victimization and Northeast lowest.
Six days of clashes in Algiers leave unofficial tally around 200 dead with hundreds wounded as security forces use rifles tanks and bayonets. Looting arrests rise while bread and gasoline lines appear amid the worst violence since 1986.
Nationally known psychologist Harriet Braiker says 93 percent of working women suffer blues and warns women to develop an emotional radar to detect early warning signs. She notes Type E stress from being everything to everybody as a top cause and contrasts women’s passive mood with men’s active distraction strategies.
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