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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1982
Page
5
U S government data show March personal income up 0.4 percent to 2.52 trillion annually as consumption falls 0.2 percent to 1.95 trillion. Savings jump 16.2 percent to 121.8 billion, signaling slower recession while economists warn continued cutbacks could delay any recovery.
Washington President Reagan pledges to go the extra mile for a bipartisan 1983 budget deal, but negotiators fail to yield. House Speaker O'Neill says no real give from the administration and plans to meet with Democratic leaders to craft their own plan if needed.
The U N Command in Korea says North Korean forces started a four hour firefight in the DMZ. South Korea reports North Koreans fired on defectors, with four dead or severely wounded about 600 yards north of the demarcation line at dawn.
Authorities identify a prime suspect in the rooftop murders of three CBS employees but say he is not the man held in Kentucky. Donald Nash of Keansburg New Jersey also known as Donald Bowers is linked to a van at the scene. Prosecutors and detectives travel to Kentucky to question Nash who agreed to return to New York to face a taxicab license forgery charge.
In Magherafelt a car packed with explosives killed one man and seriously injured another. Police linked the blasts to riots after an 11 year old boy’s death from a plastic bullet. Police said two plastic bullets were fired in Londonderry to disperse rock throwing youths injuring an officer.
Former Iranian Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh confessed on Tehran television he took money linked to a supposed assassination attempt on Ayatollah Khomeini. An exile source quoted him saying he was ashamed and asking to be freed or executed, amid reports of a payout by a Shariatmadari ally to buy a Tehran house for a rocket attack.
Down and out 31 year old Scott Thorud slept in a tree house in Theodore Wirth Park to survive a brutal winter. He pleaded guilty to staying in the park after hours and received a suspended 10 day sentence. Police noted he kept warm with a sleeping bag clothing and an improvised tent and warned against living in trees in parks.
United States vetoed a Security Council resolution condemning Israel for the Easter attack at Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick opposed the measure noting it implied Israeli responsibility. Israel blamed an individual, Alan Harry Goodman, an American-born Israeli reservist. Ultra nationalistists in Yamit prepared weapons as troops moved to evacuate Sinai settlements.
The Supreme Court ruled that a dock workers union may face monetary damages from businesses harmed by its 1980 15 month Soviet cargo boycott. Justice Powell wrote the action was an illegal secondary boycott though its aims were understandable. The decision also covered Medicare hearings adequacy and supplemental insurance reimbursement limits.
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