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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1983
Page
2
A Friday night tornado tore through Springfield Missouri, killing one, injuring 17, and demolishing at least 100 buildings. The path sliced through a cul-de-sac causing rubble on one side, as a shopping center roof lifted, warehouses were leveled, and a church was destroyed.
About 2,000 Vietnamese marched through downtown blocks on a Saturday show of support for anti communist resistance in Vietnam. The rally was part of a three day conference by the National Support Movement for the Resistance in Vietnam based in Annandale Virginia.
The State Department suggested Fidel Castro and Cuba's Communist leadership were involved in plans to use narcotics smuggling to finance Cuba and undermine U.S. society. James H. Michel testified that a 1979 Presidium proposal aimed to use Cuba as a narcotics bridge to the United States.
In Santa Monica California a 19 year old, John Edwards Dudash, shot himself during a game of Russian roulette with four other youths at Village Parkway condominiums. He is in very critical condition at Santa Monica Hospital Medical Center. Police say the gun discharged while he held it.
Police seize at least 12 people including five aides to Lech Walesa and tow cars in Warsaw to deter May Day protests led by Solidarity. Walesa plans to attend events in Gdansk despite arrests and police harassment, with church services and shipyard ties noted. Authorities vow a firm response as patrols and riot units mobilize around Warsaw and Gdansk neighborhoods.
Autopsy determined Waldo H. Dubberstein shot himself in the head with a perforating shotgun wound, a death linked to personal safety concerns. Federal prosecutors say he faced charges for selling secret Middle East information to Libyan agents for 32 000 dollars and meeting Libyan officers in Tripoli.
Anti Sandinista guerrillas killed 12 people in northern Jinotega province, including 36 year old German doctor Georg Pflaum working with Nicaragua’s Health Ministry. Victims also included two nurses, four Sandinista youth members, a land reform official and several peasants.
Former Chicago police chief Richard J. Brzeczek says the person or persons who killed seven people by cyanide laced Extra Strength Tylenol likely will never be caught. The remark came in a published interview as Brzeczek left his post. Mayor Jane Byrne had overseen his term ending amid Harold Washington's swearing in.
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