Mets Force Decisive Seventh Game In Dodgers Series
The New York Mets win 5 1 to force a deciding seventh game with Los Angeles Dodgers. Page 1B. Iowa State football coach Jim Walden criticizes publicity around a U 1 player drunken driving arrest. Page 1B. Mike Scott, a former Mercy Hospital PR official, comments on Mercy Medical Center name change and its impact on the hospital’s mission. Page 6A.
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Sistine Chapel restoration head to speak in Iowa City
Fabrizio Mancinelli, directing the Sistine Chapel restoration, will address an Iowa City audience tonight. Officials search for a restaurant manager’s cause of death in Iowa City. In Linn County, three candidates debated for supervisor. A $3.9 million Cedar Rapids postal substation and new main offices at Clinton and Keokuk face delays. Homecoming for two Iowa astronauts possibly Oct 20–21. Inflation near 4–5 percent draws economist commentary.
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Keokuk
Iowa
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Todays Chuckle Reminds Success Needs Grounding
A light caption notes that people who let success go to their head forget nothing thrives in a vacuum. The quip humorously cautions against arrogance and isolation.
International bank tied to drug money laundering scheme
Federal indictments name 85 individuals in seven U.S. cities linked to a scheme involving Bank of Credit and Commerce International and its Luxembourg holding company. An undercover probe traced $14 million moved between drug dealers and the bank with agents posing as money launderers. Eleven arrested in Tampa during a staged wedding event, part of the sting.
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Jaeger seeks experience over education for police chiefs
Cedar Rapids Public Safety Commissioner Bob Jaeger asks the Civil Service Commission to shift chief and command staff requirements to emphasize practical law enforcement experience over degrees. The proposal would make Acting Police Chief Jim Barnes eligible and would affect sergeant to captain ranks. The commission will discuss the request later this month with a decision anticipated by November 1.
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Gary Hinzman
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Barnes
Jim Piersall
Piersall
Team appointed to solve nuclear arms plant woes
Energy Secretary John Herrington named a special team to fix safety failures at Savannah River Plant and to restart the reactor producing tritium for the U S arsenal. He aims to have all three reactors running by late next summer with procedures starting in December.
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Campaign 88 The Electoral College Lock Gives Bush Edge
The piece notes a GOP belief that the Electoral College favors Bush through regional victories. It cites past voting patterns where 23 states with 202 electoral votes backed Republicans, suggesting a built in advantage in tight races. Polls show Bush leading Dukakis by three points within sampling error.
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Senate tax bill adds rights for taxpayers and cuts
The Senate approved a mixed tax package 87 to 1 to fix errors in the 1986 overhaul and extend expiring breaks. The plan trims 2.7 billion in some cases and raises it in others, and introduces a taxpayer bill of rights to inform and protect those facing IRS action. Negotiations begin with a House version, favored by the Reagan administration.
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