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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1986
Page
9
A Wednesday Iowa Supreme Court ruling could require a different blood alcohol level test if the original device malfunctions. Other items note Iowa Supreme Court actions on prompt notice to sue local governments and a university bid for a $25.1 million laser lab.
Gov. Terry Branstad spent an hour as a guest DJ on KRNT in Des Moines sharing lighthearted childhood memories from a farm in north central Iowa. He recalled sixth grade Mohawk hair, a leisure suit past, and meeting wife Chris on a blind Drake homecoming date.
Deputy Interior Minister Luis Carrion said American captive Eugene Hasenfus identified Luis Posada Carriles as the Cuban- American CIA employee behind the 1976 bombing that killed 73 aboard a Cuban airliner. Carrion noted Posada Carriles fled Venezuela and remains at large as Nicaragua seeks information from allied governments.
Two men, Brian Shipley and Jeffrey Longfellow, pleaded innocent to first degree murder in Linn County Court over the death of 62 year old Clem Blood. Trial date set for January 12. each held on $115,000 bond. Blood allegedly was robbed of about $300 on September 22, beaten, and dumped along Ely Road SW.
In a sharpened gubernatorial feud over a proposed bond program, Democrat Lowell Junkins released a six page memo from Prudential-Bache arguing the plan is legal and viable. Branstad aides dismissed the analysis as biased and warned of general fund risk while Junkins contends the ad campaign misrepresents the plan and cites examples from Illinois Michigan and New Mexico to show revenue bonds exist.
Charles Larson, 51, longtime Iowa attorney and parole board chair, took office on an interim basis as U S attorney in the Northern District of Iowa. Grassley recommended a permanent nomination for Larson, who awaits Senate confirmation after a background check delayed by years in Saudi Arabia.
The Cedar Gazette established in 1883 by The Gazette Company prints daily and Sunday editions at 500 rd Avenue SE Cedar Rapids Iowa. Subscriptions include Morning Editions and Sunday nine issues weekly rates listed and mail postage paid locally.
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