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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1988
Page
5
A chlorine gas leak from Grow Group Inc. forced a lengthy evacuation east of Los Angeles, affecting up to 27,000 people. The cloud, about a half mile long, prompted hospitalizations and sheltering as authorities controlled the chemical reaction and allowed returns with health clearance.
A 16-year-old Princeton, Kentucky youth known as Little Rambo told police he wanted to kill somebody and fled to Tennessee where he killed Carolyn Kilpatrick, 41. He confessed, faces capital murder charges, and is being evaluated for trial competency at a Nashville mental health center. Kilpatrick was shot four times with a high powered rifle behind her home. Swatzell, described as well behaved, worked at Hardee's.
Singapore voters reelect Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and his People’s Action Party to an eighth straight win. PAP captured 80 seats in an 81 member parliament, totaling 64.6 percent of votes as Lee, 64, prepares for a transition to successor Goh Chok Tong. Lee won his constituency easily over independent challenger M G Guru with 14,043 votes to 3,167.
CAPE CANAVERAL Florida AP a secret new spy satellite reached a preliminary orbit but failed to achieve a stationary 22 300 mile high path due to upper stage failure leaving the craft in a highly elliptical orbit from about 100 to 22 300 miles. The mission was doomed and salvage unlikely.
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