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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1988
Page
3
Congress approved a health package funding AIDS programs and research up to 800 million dollars annually. Provisions to safeguard confidentiality for those tested were dropped after conservative opposition led by Senator Jesse Helms.
A New Orleans report cites a study finding Accutane causes 40 percent miscarriage and 25 percent severe birth defects when taken early in pregnancy. The comparison notes thalidomide’s historic birth defect epidemic in Europe before withdrawal.
In Beijing Deng Xiaoping suggested a possible summit with the USSR to end a near 30 year estrangement, a Finnish foreign minister reported after a meeting with Mauno Koivisto. Three other items referenced include warrants for four soldiers over a 1989 massacre in San Francisco El Salvador and a U.S. funded aid airlift to southern Sudan delivering food and medical supplies.
Rome shifts to open voting in the lower house ending a 140 year tradition of secret ballots on major matters. Lawmakers must now cast public votes on the national budget and other financial issues, affecting public finances and government stability.
Police and federal agents rounded up more than 400 suspected members of Jamaican posses in a sweep across 20 states, concentrating arrests in Houston, Miami and New York. ATF reported 219 arrests by Thursday afternoon as officials tied the gangs to over 1,400 drug related murders since January 1985.
Archbishop Ballestrero announced carbon-14 tests from US Britain and Switzerland place the Shroud of Turin between 1260 and 1390, about 700 years old. He urged no doubt on the church faith in the image while noting the mystery of the figure's origin remains and rejecting charges of a fake.
Jefferson New Hampshire police charged Lawrence Coulter Jr. a 19 year old volunteer firefighter with setting a fire in Dalton on Oct 3 or 4. He is also a suspect in other fires in Jefferson. This followed the arrest a day earlier of a former Jefferson volunteer firefighter.
Britain’s Law Lords lifted injunctions stopping Guardian Observer and Sunday Times from publishing extracts from Peter Wright’s Spycatcher memoirs. The five judges ruled the government failed to prevent publication and upheld press freedom, while Wright was found guilty of breaching his secrecy oath.
A Florida judge upheld attorney-client privilege shielding a lawyer from naming the client in the March 9 1986 fatal hit and run that killed 28 year old Mark Baltes. The parents of Baltes plan an appeal within 30 days as the case hinges on disclosure of the driver's identity.
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