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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1988
Page
3
Israeli warplanes bombed Palestinian guerrilla bases at Sidon and Beirut killing at least six, including a senior PLO commander. A family of six and three others were missing feared dead under rubble in Mieh Mieh refugee camp near Sidon. Police report 41 wounded, nearly all at Mieh Mieh.
Ship survivors numbering over 140 reached small islands after Dona Marilyn sank in Typhoon Ruby seas near Manila. Officials reported 32 bodies found. crews continue search and rescue with hope for more survivors. Bernardo Cabigan, manager of the owner company, said operations were ongoing.
Paris based Roussel Uclaf bows to opposition in France and abroad and postpones the marketing of RU-486 the widely acclaimed abortion pill. The drug developed for medical abortion was authorized in France and China and used experimentally in about 100 French hospitals as a substitute for suction or dilation and curettage.
Partial returns from nationwide municipal elections show the National Party leading in Pretoria and winning a majority on Johannesburg City Council despite a strong Conservative campaign promising a tougher apartheid regime. Gazette wire service report.
Two Marine Corps helicopters crashed during a night training exercise in Gila Bend Arizona killing all 10 aboard. Lt Mary Baldwin could not confirm the crash cause or any midair collision. In Washington President Reagan said he would not sign a whistleblower bill citing constitutional issues and potential disruption of federal discipline.
President Reagan plans to recommend tearing down the nearly complete Moscow embassy office building and erecting a new one on the same site with heavy security. The project could cost up to 300 million dollars and take five years, with at least 22 million already spent on the current structure thought to be compromised by eavesdropping devices.
Washington AP reports the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists urges women with prior Caesareans to aim for normal birth in subsequent pregnancies. The guidelines recommend support for attempting vaginal delivery even after two or more C-sections, citing rising rates and medical necessity in past cases.
In Ulster two police officers were shot and wounded in an ambush near Belfast while a separate car bomb killed a post office manager outside the city’s main sorting office. No group claimed responsibility. the attacks occurred about 70 miles apart within minutes.
Mass murderer John Wayne Gacy writes to Illinois GOP leaders criticizing leaflets that claim he would have qualified for weekend passes if his murders occurred in Massachusetts. The letter, dated Oct. 21, asks Republicans to run on truth and not scare tactics referencing Willie Horton and Dukakis era furloughs.
New York AP reports Batman sidekick Robin dies in DC Comics Batman No. 428 as part of A Death in the Family. Readers voted by phone to decide Robin’s fate, with 5,343 choosing death and 5,271 for mercy. The doomed Robin is Jason Todd, not Dick Grayson, who became Nightwing.
In Roseville California doctors operating on Virginia Argue to remove a cancerous ovarian tumor found a small diamond believed to have fallen into her reproductive tract during a 52 years ago Caesarean. Surgeon Dr Harold Burton noted the surprise and Argue plans to mount the stone for a necklace while her husband Rollo tells their daughter Sharron the tale.
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