16 Sep 1987
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1987
Page
1
National Science Foundation designates two new Industry University Cooperative Research Centers with the University of Iowa among the recipients. The centers aim to boost collaboration between academia and industry, accelerating innovation in science and technology.
A light humor item jokes that a plastic surgeon accepts credit cards as payment, highlighting a witty take on modern medical bills and consumer ease.
Robert Bork opens televised Senate Judiciary confirmation with a claim he is neither liberal nor conservative and questions the 1973 abortion ruling. He faces praise and criticism while wife Mary Ellen sits beside Potter Stewart’s widow as the hearing room recalls Watergate and Iran Contra scrutiny.
President Reagan and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze voiced optimism about a future nuclear arms treaty as they wrapped day one of talks at the White House. Shultz called the discussions off to a good start with progress noted on abolishing intermediate range missiles.
Two former Mount Pleasant council members sue Police Chief Jerry Richenberger for negligence claiming he failed to protect them during the December 10 shooting rampage. The suit seeking unspecified damages ties to the same incident that led to Ralph Davis's murder conviction and life sentence for Mayor Edd King’s death.
The Garst family recalls Nikita Khrushchev's 1959 visit to their farm on September 23, 1959. Roswell and Elizabeth Garst, with their son David and granddaughter Liz, describe hopes to thaw Cold War tensions and teach Soviet leaders to feed their people with high tech farming.
In Burbank Pope John Paul II urged leaders of the film TV and music industries to avoid obscene depictions of sex and violence and to use influence to defend human dignity He warned against becoming lost in fantasy while stressing the value of leisure family and true success He praised guests including Bob Hope Shirley MacLaine Charlton Heston and Patty Duke and noted directors such as Peter Bogdanovich
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