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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1983
Page
4
In New Delhi Indira Gandhi spends six hours with affected residents in Assam after a deadly massacre of Bengali immigrants. Opposition charges Hitler-like tactics as Parliament debates the controversial election amid a bloodbath. Gandhi vows rehabilitation and upholds the vote.
Marshal Ye Jianying 85, the nominal head of state, has quit amid age and health concerns after Deng Xiaoping pressed for renewal. Comrade Hu Yaobang relayed the decision, noting Ye’s long career and ill health as the motive. The move signals Deng’s push to refresh upper government ranks.
The AFL-CIO urged a $46 billion program to create 1.8 million jobs in fiscal 1984 while backing modest defense spending increases. President Lane Kirkland warned against sacrificing social programs and urged a defense budget near $231 billion, not Reagan’s $239 billion proposal.
Guerrillas urged the Red Cross to evacuate American reporter Michael Luhan and Swedish colleagues Jens Rydstrom and Tom Thulin from the Guazapa Volcano area. Rydstrom said they were detained and alive, while an army spokesman reported 21 soldiers killed in a separate ambush and later freed.
In Algiers the PLO political committee rejected outright rejection of President Reagan's Middle East plan. Arafat steered language to avoid a flat refusal while signaling room for future negotiations and possible confederation with Jordan after Palestinian statehood is established.
In Santa Ana California three sheriff’s deputies and nineteen inmates were injured in a weekend riot at an overcrowded Orange County Jail cellblock. Capt. George King said Saturday’s fighting escalated on Sunday after a television set was removed for repairs. He cited severe overcrowding with 61 inmates in a block designed for 48, marking the jail’s third violent outburst in seven months following last August’s bedding fire.
Retired Lt. Col. James Bo Gritz says in a Los Angeles Times letter that he has identified 12 CIA-DIA generated targets in Laos that could hold U S prisoners of war. He claims to have found some POW IDs while agencies deny or withhold comment on his allegations.
In Seattle a pre arraignment hearing denied bail for two men linked to a gambling-club massacre that killed 13 in China town. A third suspect remains at large as police pursue him.
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