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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1982
Page
1
Mosher reported the general fund tax receipts rose 9.2 percent for the year with corporate income tax up 14.7 percent and personal income tax up 8.8 percent. Yet sales tax receipts remained weak a sign the state economy is recovering slower than the nation. He cautioned improvements depend on lower interest rates and federal tax changes.
Authorities said the hijacker kept hostages for at least one month and perhaps two. Before freeing them he secured assurances from Sri Lanka officials that only taxes on his fortune were sought and no prosecution. Narco police, while ordered not to arrest him, contacted Interpol about drug smuggling charges in Austria and Pakistan.
The hijacker Hatter Ekanayake threatened to blow up a jet unless his wife Anna Aldro vandi from Italy granted a divorce and custody of their son Frey. The vest was fake and the wife and child were in a separate hotel room. Meyer urged a second degree sexual abuse verdict if applicable, with a 25 year maximum.
The June unemployment rate remained 9.5 percent, with 10.4 million jobless and 900,000 more out of work in raw figures. Adult males and Black teenage unemployment hit postwar highs while factory and white collar joblessness also rose, and 1.5 million discouraged workers were counted.
The chair hung five feet above the ground as Walters descended safely from a weather balloon. The flyer recalled dreaming of skyward travel since age thirteen and thanked God for the experience, vowing not to attempt it again.
Gov Robert Ray appointed Sue Ellen Jensen principal of Sigourney Community School District and Michael W Mahaffey Poweshiek County Attorney to a new Child Abuse Prevention Program Advisory Council. Terms run at the governor's pleasure. The council was created by the Legislature this year. Marriage license fees were raised by five dollars to fund prevention programs.
New Zealand scientists report France exploded a 20 kiloton nuclear device at Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific. Dr. Warwick Smith of the DSIR Seismological Observatory says the detonation occurred Thursday morning and was recorded by seismographs in Rarotonga, about 2 000 miles away. Further details were not immediately available.
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