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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1983
Page
2
The National Abortion Federation reports 1982 saw 33 incidents of violence against abortion clinics including six fires and a doctor's kidnapping. Uta Landy, executive director, calls the period a climate of terrorism raising patient safety concerns. The count is the highest shown by the federation to date.
The Great Plains coal gasification plant in Beulah North Dakota projects a $773 million loss in the first decade. The facility, backed by a $2.02 billion federal loan guarantee, may need more government aid to continue, with sponsors blaming lower oil prices for the grim forecast.
The storm left 13 deaths in Louisiana Mississippi and Florida with 27 000 evacuated in Louisiana 7 000 in Mississippi. Flood crests near 22 feet at Slidell and 36.2 feet at St Louis with towns like Hattiesburg hit hard. Snow fell in Minnesota and Wisconsin while California saw a major landslide near Placerville.
Kilauea volcano paused on Saturday but lava from the eruption kept flowing through a hillside subdivision destroying several homes. Authorities warned the eruption may not be over and about 150 residents were evacuated as an 18 foot high lava wall loomed toward their homes on the slopes.
G Gordon Liddy writes to The Washington Post defending the Beach Boys against Interior Secretary James Watt's plan to bar them from the capital's Fourth of July celebration. Liddy says he risks his reputation in opposing Watt's stance.
Washington sources say the United States plans a Honduran base to train Salvadoran troops. About 100 U.S. advisers would staff the base, with operations expected in six weeks to two months. One official called the matter highly sensitive and said it was being played very close to the vest.
El Tiempo reports an American landowner Katherine Woodrurse and her valet were abducted by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia from her eastern Colombia ranch. It marks the second U.S. citizen kidnapping in a month as the army launches an intensive hunt.
A damaged tank truck leaked 4,000 gallons of heating oil on a major highway in Cheverly Maryland. The spill stretched about three miles and threatened the water supply. Maryland State Police closed two eastbound lanes of Highway 50 for over eight hours amid steady rain.
Guerrillas blocked eastern El Salvador and burned vehicles to avenge the death of Melida Anaya Montes known as Commander Ana Maria who was stabbed to death in Managua. They blamed the CIA and imperialists and vowed retaliation.
Sergei Khodorovich, 42, administrator of a Solzhenitsyn founded fund aiding political prisoners in the USSR, was reportedly arrested by the KGB after a two hour Moscow apartment search. No charges were announced. the fund began in 1974 with family money after Solzhenitsyn's expulsion.
Former Vice President Walter Mondale led six Democratic presidential candidates in a Massachusetts straw poll with 29.3 percent of 3 830 delegates, while a write in for the jobs issue attracted 25.6 percent. Cranston placed second, Glenn third, with Hart Hollings and Askew further back.
President Navon and other leaders opened Holocaust Day observances in Jerusalem at Yad Vashem. A 24 hour mourning period follows with a nationwide minute of silence and store closures. The theme marks the 40th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising begun April 19 1943, in which about 65 000 Jews perished.
The Gazette announces an expanded obituary section now placed on the last left-hand page of the first section, page 14A, with obituaries paired with Vital Statistics and listed daily in the front page index, to give readers national and world news prominence.
At least 13 bullets hit the Soviet consulate building in Marseille early Saturday with no injuries. Police report 13 impact points after being alerted by Soviet Consul Oleg Avramenko. Tass described it as a bandit attack amid a government expulsion of 47 Soviet diplomats last week.
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