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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1983
Page
5
Democratic politicians from across northwest Iowa urged peace issues including a nuclear freeze during campaign stops on Saturday. The report notes reaction from multiple party figures as they advocate nonproliferation and arms control.
Census Bureau reports more than a third of rural American homes built in 1970 80 as rapid growth reversed long term trends. Upside down birthday cake misfires for Gov Wallace shows Mississippi replica. Gazette forecaster Scoop Longshot picks Nebraska to start 1983 season strong.
Moscow reports that the USSR will dock up to 25 percent of managers’ pay bonuses for missed targets and shoddy goods. A new factory certification system from 1985 classifies products as top or first class with price adjustments for quality. The self accounting scheme and bonuses seek to boost efficiency, discipline, and innovation across industrial and agricultural sectors.
A close-up inspection of circus animals will be possible at 6 p.m. today in downtown Cedar Rapids. The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus animals will be unloaded at the Fourth Street tracks and C Avenue NE, led up to Seventh Street, then turned onto Second and Third Streets to their storage areas. Circus clowns will visit St. Luke's Hospital at 1 p.m. Wednesday to cheer patients. The circus performs five shows at the Five Seasons Center Tuesday through Thursday.
Capes Canaveral prepares for a moonlit Challenger launch with a flaw free countdown. The crew includes Guion Bluford the first Black astronaut and Richard Truly. mission aims include diabetes drug research and a weightless drug production experiment.
U S special envoy Richard Stone arrived in Tegucigalpa on Sunday for a Central American tour intended to support the Contadora process. He planned onward travel to El Salvador and would meet officials from all nine nations, while declining to discuss specific meetings or a potential encounter with Nicaraguan Democratic Force leaders.
Army patrols with field artillery clash with leftist rebels on Guazapa volcano slopes near San Salvador. Rebels ambushed a military convoy, destroying two of five armored cars and killing 30 soldiers. five government troops died and one wounded. Rebels claim 89 troops wounded in the week. Local officials report 98 killed in the past week.
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