Snow Flurries Spotted in Eastern Iowa During October
October snow disrupted some Eastern Iowans as a fast-moving upper level system cooled temperatures. The National Weather Service in Des Moines predicts warming to the 60s and 70s by weekend, with no reported accidents. Snowpack was brief, aided by ground temperatures around 40 degrees, and visible briefly in Washington, West Union, and Oelwein.
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Dave Gosch
Min Hock
Des Moines
Hahn
Washington
Washington County
Reagan presses SDI firmness after Reykjavik collapse
President Reagan, in a nationally televised address, pledged no concessions on the Strategic Defense Initiative amid a collapsed Reykjavik summit with Mikhail Gorbachev. He urged readiness to advance talks in Geneva while stressing SDI as nonnegotiable.
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Washington
Reagan
United States
Iceland
Mikhail Gorbachev
Gorbachev
Reykjavik
John Poindexter
U.S
Geneva
SDS
Experts analyze Soviets concern over Star Wars
Washington observers outline why Moscow opposes the Strategic Defense Initiative and seeks a decade of laboratory testing. Council on Foreign Relations official Alton Frye cautions that no single explanation fits the Soviet stance amid Reykjavik fallout.
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Alton Frye
Washington
Council On Foreign Relations
Frye
U.S
Tauke and Tabor clash over SDI strategy in debate
In a Cedar Rapids debate, incumbent Tom Tauke and challenger Eric Tabor spar over Reagan era SDI. Tauke backs research at 3.1 billion while Tabor calls SDI a fantasy and urges verifiable arms control. Both avoid predicting future talks and emphasize defense policy.
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Reagan
Tom Tauke
Dubuque
Eric Tabor
Baldwin
Tabor
Tauke
Cedar Rapids- Marion League of Women Voters
KCRG
Iceland
SDI
Congress
Eric
Today's Chuckle Political Plaid Pokes at Evasiveness
A humorous line about politicians avoiding direct answers, suggesting they favor evasive topics like plaid when asked for a favorite color. The quip frames politicians as slippery and evasive in a light, satirical tone.
Italian American biologist and American biochemist share Nobel Prize
Rita Levi-Montalcini of Rome and Stanley Cohen of Vanderbilt University win the 1986 Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering cell growth regulators that govern development from conception to aging. The pair share 290000 dollars. Levi-Montalcini 77 and Cohen 63. They previously collaborated at Washington University in St. Louis where she was a professor and he was her assistant.
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Rita Levi-Montalcini
National Council of Scientific Research
Rome
Stanley Cohen
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Nashville
Tenn
Nobel Assembly
Stockholm
Karolinska Institute
Nobel Committee
Levi-Montalcini
Cohen
Washington University
St. Louis
Fred Volkmann
Nobel & Tockholm
Sweden
Superintendent urges Cedar Rapids board to keep Polk open
Interim Superintendent Newell Lash asked the Cedar Rapids Community school board to delay Polk Elementary closure to allow reorganization cost estimates to be reviewed. He cited rising modification costs from 409000 to 852000 and concerns over minority integration levels near 35 percent at Johnson if Polk closes.
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Kurt Rogahn
Polk
Newell Lash
Cedar Rapids
Johnson
Franklin
Lash
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