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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1988
Page
3
Andrei Sakharov, the Soviet dissident physicist, announced that the Kremlin has approved his first foreign trip to the United States next month. The travel ban's lifting marks another liberalization by President Mikhail Gorbachev amid changes in Soviet policy.
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir charges Jordan's King Hussein with meddling in Israel's election by backing Shimon Peres peace plan. Elections are set for November 1. Hussein spoke on ABC Nightline, while Foreign Ministry spokesman Alon Liel says the appearance aimed to show Peres has a partner in peace.
President Augusto Pinochet dismissed nine of his sixteen ministers including interior minister Sergio Fernandez after voters rejected his bid for a new term. The shake-up came in a surprise 15 minute pre swearing in announcement despite opposition calls for change.
A National Sporting Goods Association survey shows only about 20 percent of U.S. adults get a meaningful amount of exercise at least twice weekly while 45 percent do not participate in any fitness activity. The finding highlights a broad gap in nationwide activity levels reported from Chicago.
A National Institutes of Health advisory committee in Bethesda, Maryland, voted 13 to 3 that using tissue from intentionally aborted fetuses for medical research is acceptable, reaffirming prior straw votes as the panel moved from concept to written wording.
The 6,300 ton Jupiter carrying 475 British students and staff sank off Piraeus after colliding with the Italian freighter Adige. Two Greek seamen were killed and a 14 year old girl is missing. 64 aboard were hospitalized. The Adige captain faces manslaughter charges. The voyage was organized by Schools Abroad of Havering, Essex.
Thousands flee as Hurricane Joan advances with 125 mph winds toward Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Shelters fill along a 250 mile coastline arc while 52,000 evacuate and at least 26 are confirmed dead in earlier Colombia and Venezuela damage. A 15 foot mudslide blocks the Pan American Highway in Panama.
Dozens of volunteers in Barrow use chain saws and poles to carve breathing holes in thick Arctic ice as a Skycrane helicopter drops a concrete hammer to expand a path for three young California gray whales stranded about 100 yards offshore. Biologists say progress hinges on guiding the whales from hole to hole toward open water four miles away.
Israeli warplanes and helicopters hit training bases and ammo dumps near Sidon and Mashgara, killing 15 and wounding 35. In Beirut Shiite kidnappers threaten retaliation for the strikes, with typewritten statements signed by Islamic Jihad demanding punishment for captives.
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