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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1988
Page
3
Tom T. Hall delivered a moving eulogy for Billy Carter in Plains Georgia. About 500 mourners attended the funeral of the Plains resident who gained national attention as the brother of the nation’s 39th president. Carter died Sunday and was noted for his down home wit and beer drinking at his Plains service station.
Five Discovery astronauts arrived at Cape Canaveral and NASA began the countdown Monday for liftoff at 8 59 a m CDT Thursday marking the first shuttle flight since the Challenger disaster.
The Supreme Court refused to block a Flint, Michigan woman from obtaining an abortion her estranged husband tried to bar. The justices let stand Michigan rulings affirming her constitutional right to terminate the pregnancy despite his objections.
The Communist Party Central Committee recommended Mieczyslaw Rakowski, veteran editor and Politburo member, to succeed Prime Minister Zbigniew Messner. Messner and his 19 minister government resigned September 19 amid severe economic criticism.
Yuri Churbanov, Brezhnev's son-in-law and former first deputy interior minister, testifies at a military tribunal in Moscow. He admits keeping a 150000 ruble bribe to avoid awkward return, says Uzbek official Umarov delivered the money as a gift from Sharaf Rashidov. He also claims officials misled him about using ministry resources for a country house cellar.
After a televised clash, analysts call the debate a tie that helps Dukakis as he trails Bush in national polling. Gallup found 42 percent Dukakis winner, 41 percent Bush, 12 percent tied, with 5 percent undecided.
In his seventh and farewell U.N. speech Reagan urged a global ban on chemical and gas warfare and praised Soviet reforms as a path to peace. He backed a new international conference to uphold the 1925 Geneva protocol and noted progress in reducing nuclear arsenals.
Opening statements in the Randy Kraft murder case detail homosexual violence necrophilia and mutilation. Prosecutors say Kraft, a former Long Beach computer programmer, killed 16 young males between 1972 and 1983 and dumped bodies from a moving car. They seek death if guilty and link him to 21 other slayings across Southern California Oregon and Michigan.
Sicilian judge Antonio Saetta, 66, president of a Palermo appeals court, and his son Stefano, 35, described as 100 percent invalid, were killed when gunmen opened fire on their car on a highway to Palermo. Investigators suspect possible motives but have not ruled out broader mafia intimidation.
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