North Korea says Yank seeks asylum after crossing DMZ
North Korea claims an American soldier crossed the DMZ and asked for political asylum. The UN command in Seoul says the report may be correct, identifying Pvt. Joseph T. White of St. Louis, Missouri. The case marks a rare 17 year lapse since a U.S. defection to North Korea.
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Seoul
South Korea
North Korea
Tokyo
Pvt
Joseph T. White
White
U.S
U.N. Command
St. Louis
Korea
Begin Says PLO Beaten as Syria Tu rns to Leave Lebanon
Israeli Prime Minister Begin declares Syria will pull its troops from Lebanon and that the PLO is a beaten organization unable to stop its retreat from Tripoli and the Bekaa. He notes a first week of Palestinian dispersal with 600 guerrillas sailing to Syria and 1,100 arriving in Tunisia. Begin, in a NYT interview, says Reagan insulted him yet the US Israeli accord in Lebanon remains intact and predicts progress toward a date for mutual Syrian and Israeli disengagement.
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Gazette Wire
Jerusalem
Menachem Begin
Syria
Lebanon
Palestine Liberation Organization
Tripoli
Bekaa Valley
PLO
Yasser Arafat
West Beirut
Bourguiba
Israel
Begin
New York Times
Reagan
United States
Three Cedar Rapids area accidents kill one and injure four
An elderly Cedar Rapids man died on arrival at St Luke's after a two car crash on the northeast side at 27th Street and Prairie Drive NE. Joanie Novotny was treated and released. A motorcycle crash injured Geoffrey Dieter in the same vicinity, with his wife Jennifer Dieter treated and released. An accident in Johnson County killed two people.
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Cedar Rapids
Johnson County
St. Luke’s Hospital
Godfrey O. Dvorak
Oakland Road
Dvorak
Joanie L. Novotny
34Th St
27Th Street
Prairie Drive
Novotny
St. Luke’s
Geoffrey
Jennifer Dieter
Jennifer
Angie McNitt Seeks Growth Help For Severe Stunting
Cedar Rapids girl Angie McNitt 6 shows signs of age and ability limitations from a lack of growth hormone. Doctor Robert Thompson at University of Iowa Hospitals oversees treatment. Angie is 30 inches tall and 23 pounds, with no growth since age 3. Page 5A.
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Angie
William and
Charlie Anne McNitt
27Th St. Drive SE
Robert Thompson
University of Iowa Hospitals
Notable Iowa official to resign from state post
Gerry Rankin, chief fiscal officer for the Iowa General Assembly since 1966, will quit effective November 1. Other items note Timothy Rudd’s Marine service stories from Manchester, Marion gas station owner Harry Hazewinkel expanding product lines, Cedar Rapids tour entrepreneur Marlene Miller, and Ellen Burstyn becoming the first woman president of the Actors Equity Association.
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Gerry Rankin
Iowa General Assembly
Timothy Rudd
Manchester
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
U.S
Harry Hazewinkel
Marion
Ellen Burstyn
Hollywood
Actors’ Equity Association
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IDOT
Fivina High
Yank
Mideast
Bennett
Vern McKeag
Geneseo
Ill
Dan Catour
Orion, Ill
Cedar County
Mary Burke Gazette
Angela McNitt
Amy
Marlene Miller
Junior League
Iowa City
West Branch
Amana
Linn Court
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