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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1983
Page
6
Rep. Harold Washington won Chicago's mayoral race with 51.5 percent of the 1.3 million votes, defeating Bernard Epton who held 48.2 percent. A large black turnout and Hispanic support helped Washington. final results based on 2,793 of 2,914 precincts.
CETA officials won an extra 157,969 in federal funds, raising the Summer Youth Employment total to 399,802. The program will serve about 500 economically disadvantaged and handicapped youths ages 14 to 21, up from about 200, with jobs beginning after school and ending before school resumes.
The Reagan administration proposed boosting the U S Soviet hot line with a high speed system capable of relaying photos and charts and creating separate lines for military commands and embassies to reduce nuclear war risk. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger outlined the plan at a Pentagon briefing as Congress nears a nuclear freeze vote and a Senate decision looms on Kenneth Adelman as arms control director.
Iowa Senate backs a hybrid utility regulation bill 41-7 before returning to the House for review. The measure includes new and altered provisions, with a central feature the creation of a separate consumer advocate to be filled by the Commerce Commission counsel until April 1985.
A brief line notes a bridegroom who sacrificed freedom in the search for happiness. The fragment hints at a humorous or witty reflection on marriage and liberty. No further context is provided.
Two Williamsburg business owners urged the Iowa DOT to open a shorter detour around Highway 149 reconstruction. They argued a proposed temporary access road would be inadequate and lengthen their route by about nine miles. The commission said it would decide at its next meeting on April 26.
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