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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1984
Page
3
A Whitefish school bus carrying about 30 wrestlers and staff crashed into an empty fuel tanker in a snowstorm on Highway 2. Nine people died, 19 were injured, including the truck driver. The bus was returning from a wrestling meet in Browning. The NTSB will investigate.
A twin engine Cessna 310 returning to Lincoln Park Airport after engine trouble clipped a tree and the roof, crashing in a Pequannock front yard. All four aboard were killed. no one in the house was injured. The victims were the male pilot and three female passengers.
U S Senator Carl Levin says he will testify if needed after pursuing a Detroit man eight miles in an aide’s car following the theft of his mother’s Ford. Police will seek a warrant for unlawfully driving away a motor vehicle.
Marine Sgt. John D. McKeel, once held in Iran, leaves hospital after a nervous breakdown and plans an honorable discharge at month's end. He returns to Balch Springs with his wife and 11 month old son, seeking work in helicopter maintenance, security, or plumbing with his father. If needed he can rejoin at the same rank.
Shana Alexander argues that courts discriminate against women as the legal system was built by men. She spoke at the Boston Business and Professional Women's Club noting condescension and bias toward women in male dominated courts.
The 67 year old ferry Karrabee began taking on water after finishing third in the 1984 Great Ferry Race in Sydney. It returned to Circular Quay with over 300 passengers before listing and sinking in 30 feet of water. Police divers searched the hull but all evacuated safely.
King Hassan II ordered the suspension of planned increases in basic foodstuffs following bloody riots in northern Morocco. Diplomats cite hundreds of deaths as troops and police fired on crowds. officials deny casualty tallies and expel foreign reporters amid a government clampdown.
A brutal cold front drives record lows across New England and the Midwest with temperatures plunging to as low as 40 below zero in Chester Massachusetts and Guilford Maine. Dulles Airport hits an 18 below record as twenty plus states report subzero readings. Caribou Maine and Old Forge New York endure extreme cold with long standing records. Vermont towns report chilly starts to winter carnivals and ski areas face weather related revenue dips.
Secretary of State George Shultz warned on ABC's This Week that terrorism is rising globally and could be used as a weapon of war by states. He suggested a pre emptive strike might be considered to stop a kamikaze type attack while confirming renewed talks with the Soviet Union on arms and troop reductions in central Europe with a March 16 Vienna meeting.
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