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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1986
Page
4
Tokyo reports Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone apologized for remarks many considered racist. He said his words offended Americans and expressed heartfelt apology. Critics urged a boycott as Diet debates pressured restitution amid strained U S Japanese trade ties.
Detroit Mayor Coleman Young called a WXYT billboard showing a gun firing toward a toll of 367 a disgrace and sensationalist. Station officials say the sign aims to raise awareness and may change. the billboard lists 366 handgun deaths in the metro area this year.
A group of white men, aided by rope ladders, attacked Middledrift Prison in Ciskei freeing Lt. Gen. Charles Sebe while wounding a black guard. Separately a Devonshire Hotel blast in Johannesburg injured three people. Sebe, jailed since 1983, fled with the attackers. his son Maj. Gen. Kwane Sebe was later kidnapped near a casino in Bisho.
Officials concluded the 1984 Wilberg Mine blaze was started by an air compressor that was inadvertently turned on with a disconnected heat sensor. MSHA investigator Herschel Potter said the sensor and on off switch were rendered inoperable and the unit had run for at least 48 hours before the fire, possibly started accidentally when a nearby breaker was thrown.
Robert E. Lee, 31, appeared in Monroe Superior Court on a preliminary murder charge in the death of Ellen Sears Marks. Authorities say a handwritten instruction list found years earlier tied to the case, with plans for abducting and disposing of a body.
Fashion designer Calvin Klein, 43, wed his assistant Kelly Rector in Rome City Hall on Friday. It was Klein second marriage and Rector’s first.
Frank Sinatra’s first Spain concert attracted only about 8,000 paid attendees at the Real Madrid stadium, with organizers posting heavy losses after paying him around 1 million dollars. Sinatra reportedly bought 16,000 tickets to distribute to soldiers and police, and many seats were filled by free admissions. Elizabeth Taylor hospitalized after tooth extraction with infection and pain. Viewers baffled by an all new voices episode of Late Night with David Letterman drawing about 250 calls locally.
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