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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1982
Page
1
LaVonne Carlson and Donald W. Lewis became engaged June 9 and married June 12. Lewis died Wednesday after a short illness from terminal cancer. Services are today. They dated over two years and planned marriage but delayed until last week.
U S government figures show personal income up 0.7 percent in May to 2.548 trillion as spending climbs 1.3 percent the biggest rise since August. Disposable income increases slow to 0.2 percent while the savings rate edges down to 5.2 percent.
Pulitzer Prize winning author John Cheever died of cancer at his Ossining residence at age 70. The writer known as the Chekhov of the suburbs published widely in The New Yorker and won the 1979 Pulitzer for The Stories of John Cheever and the 1958 National Book Award for The Wapshot Chronicle.
The PLO vows to contest the passing amid Beirut bombardment as Israeli forces seal off West Beirut. Salah Khalef says the guerrillas will resist from camps, rejecting Habib’s surrender offer while fighting continues in Beirut’s suburbs and southern hills.
Up to 70 officers including a SWAT team ringed a Cincinnati discount store for six hours to free nine hostages. A gunman was captured outside at 7:45 a.m. after overpowing by police. two gunmen reportedly escaped through a door not covered. Negotiations and appeals continued as responders cut through 16 inches of wall to free hostages.
President Reagan refuses to ease sanctions on the Soviet Union and extends the export ban to foreign subsidiaries and licensees of U.S. companies. The move targets pipelines and related equipment, with no cost estimates available. Major firms like General Electric and Caterpillar remain barred from pipeline components.
Weather brief for Marion reports a calm day with light breezes and no precipitation. The page also includes a light humor item titled Today’s Chuckle noting a bachelor’s quip about never being married.
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