Prison guard trainees endure 11 hour hostage ordeal
Gary Grisham and seven other Iowa State Penitentiary trainees were held hostage for 11 hours after a prison riot began at Fort Madison. He had just joined the guard staff with a $6.32 hourly wage and said he would not return to the job after escaping the ordeal.
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Gary Grisham
Iowa State Penitentiary
Fort Madison
Grisham
Lomax
Ill
John Wittich
Building 51
Iowa
J.I. Case
Burlington
the Gazette
Betty
Amy
Angela
Officials nearly stormed Iowa State Penitentiary in hostages case
Des Moines reports state officials were poised to assault Fort Madison prison as an 11 hour stalemate neared end when five hostages were freed by trusted inmate allies. Michael Reagen noted the operation halted by the inmate intervention and not by negotiation.
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Des Moines
Iowa State
Fort Madison
Hal Farrier
Michael Reagen
Social Services
Reagen
Holiday patrol to expand for Labor Day in Iowa
Iowa State Patrol will add 32 troopers for Labor Day weekend with federal funding to “buy back” a dozen officers. An extra 20 troopers will focus on interstate speed enforcement, using seven aircraft and two motorcycle troopers. The agency aims at interstate and primary highways amid a history of about 12 Labor Day deaths in 20 years.
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DES Moines
UPI
Iowa State Patrol
al Chrystal
Chrystal
Abortion rate defies fund out
CDC reports 95 percent of low income women who might rely on Medicaid obtained abortions despite federal funding denial. State and private programs funded safe legal abortions. only 1 percent resorted to illegal operations. Dr. Willard Cates notes findings in JAMA.
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Washington
Center For Disease Control
Willard Cates
CDC
Journal of the American Medical Association
U N Moves to Bar South Africa from General Assembly
African nations vote to exclude South Africa from the UN General Assembly amid charges over South West Africa Namibia. The credentials committee recommended rejecting the South African delegation, while the U S opposed the move. The action does not strip UN membership but bars participation in proceedings.
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Sion
Mohammed Bedjaoui
Bedjaoui
J. Adriaan Eksteen
Eksteen
South Africa
South-West Africa
Namibia
Dominican Republic
United States
Britain
von Wechmar
Singapore
U.N
South- West Africa People’s Organization
Robert Rosenstock
Assembly
David Steward
R.F. “Pik
Botha
Kurt Waldheim
United Nations
Plans to build corn alcohol plant dropped
Lisbon officials announced the $25 million corn alcohol plant project was dropped after farmers showed little interest in five year contracts to grow 4 million bushels annually. Mayor Peter Greiner cited poor public presentation and noted potential employment losses of 50 plus and a $25 million tax base loss for the city.
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Lisbon
Peter Greiner
Producers’ Cooperative
Greiner
Gorman Robinson
Mechanicsville
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U.N. General Assembly
Pretoria
Baron Ruediger von Wechmar
West Germany
Angola
Security Council
Tommy Koch
al Swegle
Abby
Marion
Ces
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