Bezanson expected to surrender most assets in MorAmerica deal
Cedar Rapids businessman Peter Bezanson likely to turn over 95 to 97 percent of his assets to MorAmerica Financial Corp as part of an nearing settlement. Judge Melloy set a 30 day deadline for written arguments if no agreement is reached while creditors seek to sue Bezanson for 17 to 20 million in debt and access to depositor lists for potential litigation.
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Cedar Rapids
Peter Bezanson
MorAmerica Financial Corp
Michael Melloy
Bezanson
MorAmerica
Morris Plan Co
Iowa
Melloy
James Hall
Iowa Supreme Court
Linn District Court
Morris Plan
State Appeals Board
Michael Helms
Des Moines
Lasansky presents 230 works to Cedar Rapids Art Museum
Internationally renowned print maker Mauricio Lasansky and his wife Emilia donate more than 230 artworks to the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. The gift includes 84 finished prints 71 experimental works and 13 drawings from 1935 to 1986 and supports a 5 000 square foot Lasansky Gallery funded by anonymous donors as part of a $6 5 million renovation plan.
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Dee Ann Rexroat
Mauricio Lasansky
Grant Wood
Marvin Cone
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art
University of Iowa
Emilia
Lasansky
Lasanskys
Stamats
Carnegie
Joseph Czestochowski
Art
Czestochowski
Nobel Peace Prize to Holocaust author Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and author, was named the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize laureate by the Norwegian Nobel Committee. The citation praised his leadership against violence and hatred and his memory work for all oppressed peoples. Wiesel, 58, has long chronicled Jewish suffering and the dangers of forgetting.
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Slo
Norway
Elie Wiesel
Nobel Committee
Wiesel
Jo Benkow
Benkow
Nobel
Crap-shooter’s heaven paradise and a pair of dice
A light humor item notes a gambler’s fond wish for luck and luck with dice. The brief framing uses playful religious imagery to underscore chance and luck in a gambling context.
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Heaven
Paradise
Gorbachev says US aims to bleed USSR financially
In a 65 minute national broadcast Gorbachev accused the United States of lacking political will for arms control and pursuing a costly space era arms race. He blamed Reagan for inflexibility over SDI and called on Americans to abandon old positions as Reykjavik showed the path forward remains unresolved.
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Moscow
Mikhail Gorbachev
United States
Soviet Union
Iceland
Reagan
Gorbachev
Strategic Defense Initiative
Reykjavik
SDI
Reagan cites historic gains from Reykjavik summit
President Reagan framed Reykjavik as a watershed with historic gains for arms control talks in Geneva while preserving his firm stance on the Star Wars space defense program. He told reporters the summit breakdown would not derail future negotiations.
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Washington
Reagan
Reykjavik
Iceland
Geneva
Shultz
Wet fall corn sprouting in husks hits harvest mix
Farmers report heavy rains and warm temperatures causing early maturing hybrids to sprout kernels in the husks. Elevators refuse to store sprouting corn due to spoilage risk, with a few processors accepting it for processing in Cedar Rapids. Experts urge combining promptly and drying to 13 percent moisture for storage.
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Jim Wilkin
Wilkin Elevators
Lisbon
London
Pye
Wilkin
Cedar
Creswell
Linn County
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New York
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U.S
Gazette Wire Services
White House
George Shultz
Donald Regan
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