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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1983
Page
6
Frank Sinatra files a 10 million lawsuit against Sinatras' nightclub claiming misappropriation of his name and deceptive advertising. The club features male strippers and female impersonators and allegedly rides on Sinatra's exclusive Golden Nugget performance contract.
A suit accuses a nightclub opened Aug 5 of using Duane Dennis and Paul Sinatra without consent to gain publicity. Plaintiffs seek removal of the club name and bar owners barred from implying any connection to Frank Sinatra. Pope John Paul salutes 19 peace marchers in St. Peter's Square. The group from Seattle traced a Bethlehem trek aiming to urge a nuclear arms freeze. In Maine, sculptor Peter Toth announces Bar Harbor as the next stop on his trail of whispering giants, planning a 30 foot oak monument to American Indians along Route 3.
Chicago firefighter Robert Russell received the maximum 10 year sentence after a bench trial for hiring an arsonist to burn a South Side two story building owned by Russell. Prosecutors said seven children lived there and Russell, traumatized by a childhood blaze, claimed no psychiatric issue influenced him.
Secretary general Javier Perez de Cuellar wins two agreements with South Africa on Namibia independence and interim U.N. military force. He tours the border area near Angola at Etosha Game Reserve and plans next stops in border settlements and Luanda.
Environmentalist Scott Nearing died at his Harborside Maine home three weeks after his 100th birthday. The pacifist author of Living the Good Life influenced the back to the land movement of the 1960s and 70s and died in his living room overlooking Penobscot Bay.
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