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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1981
Page
3
The first four American Vietnam War veterans to visit Vietnam since the war ended returned home Friday and said the conflict is finally over for them. The group spoke after their trip, marking a symbolic closure and renewed U.S. ties with Vietnam.
Opinions note the federal excise tax idea on natural gas would seem consistent but not reasonable. A Poland broadcast project by Radio Free Europe aims to send private messages during martial law.
Wildlife artist Tom Walker of Council Bluffs won the 1982 habitat stamp competition last summer and also painted the 1982-83 duck stamp. Debbie Allen vibrant on Fame on the new weekly hour show. Henry Fonda, 76, stars with Myrna Loy in Summer Solstice. Channel Comment notes.
Cal Tech students laid plans for a New Year prank targeting Rose Bowl spectators and players. Officials state the scheme was unearthed before execution, ending the stunt prior to game day.
The piece profiles workers who remain on duty Christmas Day including Cris Armbrecht a 7-Eleven clerk, Bill Klein a fireman at the Sixth Street IE power plant, and Bob Clang a Rockwell Collins security guard. Each cites reasons for working such as pay, family timing, and longstanding shifts.
An international security firm sketches the typical computer criminal as a 35 year old male, employed three years, in the top 40 percent income bracket, living with his wife and two children in a respectable neighborhood. The profile notes the criminal can come from any corporate level.
A decade ago three New Orleans firefighters died when a wall and balcony collapsed. The narrative also notes a Burns International Security Services profile on corporate losses from computer crime, estimated at $100 million annually.
North Charleston, S.C. A UPI report details Air Force First Lt. Thomas Tiller's six days in an open raft before rescue off the South Carolina coast. He feasted on a Christmas duck dinner in a Navy hospital after being saved by a fishing boat Odyssey. Search continues for 1st Lt. Michael A. Mattson, F-4E Phantom jet pilot missing since Dec. 18. authorities say both were ejected from the jet. Col. Peter T. Kempf notes both are relatively inexperienced officers.
About 650 Haitian refugees at a Dade County immigration detention center refused a Christmas dinner amid a second day hunger strike. INS said most detainees refused meals, drank water, and officials considered dehydration concerns while Christmas Eve food was donated to charity. Archbishop McCarthy called the action a humane response to harsh conditions.
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