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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1990
Page
3
A 47-year-old heart transplant patient with type O blood died after a computer listing error labeled his blood type as A, causing a donor heart from an A-type to be transplanted. Abbot Northwestern Hospital formed a committee to investigate the death.
The State Department denounced Burma's military for human rights abuses amid raids on Buddhist monasteries in Mandalay. Twenty monks were arrested at one site and authorities surrounded eleven monasteries in a crackdown on dissent. Chicago report notes CPR by medics saves many elderly heart attack victims and should not be abandoned for age.
Democrats prepare to push a deficit reduction package on the House floor, including a 7.5 percent surtax on millionaires. Senate and House leaders met with President Bush as talks risk a budget collapse and potential government funding lapse after midnight. The plan also seeks higher gas taxes and cuts to Medicare while Republicans oppose the millionaire tax.
Encyclopaedia Britannica editors drop four titles including Tom Jones and Tristram Shandy from the Great Books of the Western World to add 60 new authors and 20th century works. The revised 60-volume set adds Hemingway Fitzgerald ONeill and four women authors, while preserving classics.
Researchers report a rise in severe group A streptococcal infections affecting both children and adults. A study of 128 cases in Tucson area hospitals from 1985 to 1990 found six toxic shock like cases in 1988 1990 with one death, tied to a specific bacterial toxin.
Chicago doctors report a non surgical balloon catheter technique to clear blocked fallopian tubes. The method resembles angioplasty and may help about 10 percent of the roughly one million infertile women, according to Dr. Ilan Tur Kaspa and colleagues.
Washington report says Senate and House intelligence conferees agreed to reduce covert support to Afghan anti government forces by over 10 percent. Aid was set at 250 million dollars, with 30 million cut from prior year and half held in reserve pending further congressional approval. The changes are part of the classified Intelligence Authorization Act for 1991 reported with a public 75 page review.
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