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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1982
Page
1
Police battled youths in Gdansk over the weekend in the first major outbreak of violent protest since martial law began. Eight police and six civilians injured, 205 detained for summary trials as authorities crack down and communications are cut off.
Eastern Iowa spared as the fourth major weekend storm hits the Midwest. Up to two feet of snow fell in Illinois Indiana Michigan and Missouri with 19 inches in St Louis and 22 in Greenville Ill. Temps plummeted to record lows in Detroit Lakes Minn. Authorities closed universities in Indiana and declared snow emergencies as plows worked to clear highways.
Government troops killed 19 civilians in a pre dawn raid in a San Salvador suburb according to witnesses and morgue officials. An army communiqué said 20 leftist guerrillas were killed in the capital area during the same operation. morgue records and residents report a broader death toll and civilian casualties including minors.
Betty and Jack Kuhn sue dog owners alleging their 11 year old poodle Gigi was killed by dogs roaming the rural southwest Cedar Rapids neighborhood. Associate Judge Lynne Brady heard the case last week and will rule within two weeks.
An Alpine avalanche in Salzburg, Austria, sweeps down Sunday killing 11 West German teenage skiers and one teacher. One additional skier is feared buried as rescuers halt search amid dangerous wet snow conditions.
The Reagan administration proposes ending guaranteed student loans for graduate and professional students in the next fiscal year. About 650,000 students used these loans last year, with total value between 1.8 and 2.3 billion dollars. The plan, a cost-saving measure, would affect law medicine business and arts and sciences graduate programs pending congressional approval.
The note discusses public complaints about the weather while arguing that regulation would generate even more uproar than forecasting. It frames weather as a policy issue and hints at government influence.
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