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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1981
Page
4
Norway protested to the U S embassy in Oslo while Soviet Tass called the plan inhuman and barbaric. Western allies split between deference and comment as Europe weighs NATO and arms talks amid demonstrations and political responses.
In Belfast violence erupts after the death of IRA hunger striker Tom McEl Wee at the Maze prison. Youths throw gasoline bombs at security forces as two people die and another is killed by a plastic bullet. Patrick Sheehan, 25, faces hunger strike as 55 inmates threaten protest.
About 600 Democrats attended a Kennedy re election fundraiser at the Kennedy family compound in Hyannisport mass. Rose Kennedy presided as Edward Kennedy urged campaign support promising to return to the Senate. The event featured a Dixieland band and watered clams in the rain.
The Saudi eight point peace proposal drew a tepid Israeli rejection and varied reactions across the region. Egyptian President Sadat called it nothing new while Syrian Prime Minister al Kasm praised it as what Arabs want though unlikely to succeed under Reagan. The plan envisions a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza and Israeli security, with PLO involvement unclear.
Washington AP reports that by December 31, 1980, 714 prisoners were on death row across 30 states, 136 more than a year earlier. Blacks made up about two in five inmates, eight were women, with Florida, Georgia, and Texas housing 153, 139, and 80 inmates respectively, constituting 52 percent of all death sentences. The South held 76 percent of the national total.
The Reagan administration will produce and stockpile neutron warheads in the United States and has no plans to deploy them abroad for now. Officials say the move reverses Carter’s ban on production by altering the policy to assemble rather than merely manufacture, with Meese describing the stance as a display of resolve to strengthen defense and deter aggression.
A fertile female Mediterranean fruit fly found in Santa Cruz County prompts California crews to expand survey efforts across three quarantined counties. In Florida authorities prepare a dawn helicopter pesticide strike on a Tampa neighborhood after three dead fruit flies were located last week, the first Florida sighting in 18 years.
The first United Nations conference on unconventional energy sources opens in Nairobi Kenya with 4 000 to 5 000 delegates from 154 countries. Prime ministers Pierre Trudeau Indira Gandhi Thorbjorn Falldin and Edward Seaga attend alongside U N Secretary General Kurt Waldheim as the event explores renewable energy amid fears of oil shortages.
Kuwait’s Dr Abdul Rahman al Awaddi says 13 nation OPEC ministers will convene August 19 in Geneva to unify prices and curb the world supply glut. Saudi Arabia, producing about 40 percent of OPEC output, will attend, with African members seeking relief from overproduction estimated at 2.5 million barrels daily.
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