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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1982
Page
1
Dick Powers, blinded by a shotgun blast on March 2, 1974, laments a system he believes favored the shooter who received only two years probation. He recalls losing his sight, job, and marriage while seeking answers to why justice felt so incomplete.
Israeli gunboats and artillery hit Palestinian positions in West Beirut as talks on evacuation details faltered. Palestinian militants reinforced besieged districts while Israel eased a water blockade but kept electricity and food cut, leaving many residents without power or water.
Pentagon sources say the Army asks for 1984 budget funds to develop a neutron round for the 155mm howitzer in Western Europe. Enhanced radiation weapons would halt Soviet armor with less surface fallout than standard nuclear rounds, amid ongoing debate in Europe.
Victor Power relocates to Arizona to start a journalism department and teach at a college. Cindy Clymer marks 18 summers at the Marion Legion pool, saying she isn’t tired of the place. Helen Moliman views divorce as a new start. Dr. Perry Bond, 104, remains a lifelong learner at the University of Iowa. Jim Smith tests a mixed cuisine concept in Cedar Rapids.
A humorous column recounts how a wife bought a metric scale to monitor her weight, but the metric system leaves her unsure of her exact pounds and kilos. The anecdote highlights the comic confusion over unfamiliar units.
In Managua Nicaragua and Honduras push toward conflict with leftist Sandinist government accusing Honduras of harboring exile forces. Honduras says it has entered a prewar state and will deploy 1000 troops with a US training base. Costa Rica expels three Nicaraguan diplomats over an alleged bombing, escalating regional hostilities.
A three year old Cedar Rapids girl Angelique Ohlhauser died after a car backing from 1511 10th Ave SW struck her near St Luke's Hospital late Saturday. Police say driver Robert Ohlhauser 20 uncle to the child could not see her before the impact and returned to find her in the driveway. She died at St Luke's Hospital after Area Ambulance transported her from the scene.
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