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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1988
Page
3
Rafael Caro Quintero, linked to the 1985 killing of a U S narcotics agent, received a 34 year sentence for crimes including illegal import of army weapons, marijuana cultivation, criminal association, and kidnapping of field workers, as per Judge Vicente Salazar Vera.
In Tokyo, the ailing emperor endured ongoing internal bleeding and underwent two additional blood transfusions. Doctors said the intestinal hemorrhage had not stopped as he watched television serials and exchanged brief words with Crown Prince Akihito.
France's Health Ministry authorized prescription and sale of RU 486 known as RA 486, limited to specialized medical centers under current abortion law. Health Minister Claude Evin announced the decision after a government drug advisory panel recommended authorization.
A woman was raped in a stairwell of a Chicago area commuter train station during evening rush hour as bystanders passed by. Police arrested a man already awaiting trial for a February attack on another woman. six people were present and witnesses said the two may have known each other.
Cinnamon Brown, 18, who confessed to killing Linda Marie Brown in 1985, now says her father David Arnold Brown 36 and his sister in law Patricia Ann Bailey 20 plotted the crime for insurance. Prosecutors say four life policies worth over 1 million prompted the slaying. Linda Brown died after being shot while sleeping in Garden Grove.
Navy petty officer Michael Combe was found guilty of negligent homicide and conspiracy to commit battery by a five officer court martial panel in the Pensacola drowning of recruit Lee Mirecki. He received 90 days in the brig, reduction in rank to petty officer third class, and a reprimand.
The House passed the AIDS Federal Policy Act 367 to 13, expanding testing and counseling while safeguarding test confidentiality and speeding research. It creates a 400 million dollar per year grant program for voluntary testing aimed at high risk groups, with conditions for state and facility funding.
In Beirut the political crisis deepens with two rival governments claiming power as a new era of uncertainty begins after Parliament fails to elect a president. The U S Embassy evacuates 17 personnel while Christian and Muslim officers contest control from East and West Beirut.
In a 1966 to 1984 California death study, researchers found Jews near Passover show a decline in deaths just before the holiday and a rise afterward among cancer and heart or brain vascular patients. David Phillips notes some can hang on until important events, delaying death by about a week.
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