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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1983
Page
3
An Israeli patrol was ambushed in Nabatieh Lebanon with grenades in a crowded market killing one soldier and wounding four. Four Nabatieh residents were wounded in the ensuing firefight as Israeli forces raided houses seeking attackers. No group claimed responsibility.
U.S. Judge Irving Kaufman chairman of the President's Commission on Organized Crime will not sign a White House prepared pledge to abide by Justice Department ethics standards. He objects to a federal judge being asked to sign the pledge, though he does not oppose the pledge's substance. The 19 member commission, formed by President Reagan last July, seeks to investigate organized crime and assess federal anti crime efforts.
In Boonville Indiana a civil jury awarded 5000 dollars in damages to the Kohm family for the wrongful death of 11 year old Kathy Kohm. The shooter was not charged criminally. Stanton Gash was named as a suspect but police could not press charges.
President Reagan defended his veto of a bill tying U S military aid to Salvadoran human rights progress. He warned El Salvador cannot combat leftist guerrillas and right wing death squads simultaneously while noting possible leftist infiltration of San Salvador. Democrats plan to reintroduce the measure in January as Bush prepares a December trip to El Salvador to condemn rights abuses.
A 20-year-old dormitory assistant at the University of Massachusetts was arrested after a fire in a student's desk led police to her dorm. Yvette J. Henry, a chemistry major from Philadelphia, faces two counts of burning the personal property of another. Authorities say the case centers on a fire in a desk area. they are not releasing whether she is tied to other fires across dorms.
In Augusta Mark Blackburn, who won custody of his son after his wife bore an illegitimate racially mixed daughter, is sued for divorce by his second wife Nell. Nell alleges abandonment threats of physical harm and mental cruelty. Blackburn previously won custody by proving a better home life than his former wife Kathleen.
Guards from the International Guards Union of America Local 3 voted to return to work at the Y-12 plant and Oak Ridge National Laboratory beginning the 10 p.m. shift Sunday. They accept a 6 percent pay raise from Union Carbide Corp after a two-week strike.
Bangladesh political figures in hiding plan a mass protest for December 20 against Lt Gen Ershad's martial law regime. They halted agitation for an Islamic Conference meeting, after a clash left four dead and hundreds injured.
A militant printers union suspended illegal picketing outside a northwest England newspaper plant after clashes with police. The National Graphical Union faced fines for contempt of court and a possible fresh confrontation with authorities as tensions eased for now.
Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger told the Atlantic Institute in Paris that negotiations with the Soviet Union on Europe’s medium range missiles were “better than ever” and could resume in months. He said the Soviets would return once they see NATO deployment cannot be blocked.
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