Argentina and Britain show cautious shift toward peace talks
The two nations paused fighting over the Falklands and UN Secretary General Perez de Cuellar reported a positive Argentine response to his peace plan. A cease-fire and UN administration were cited as core elements, with Britain awaiting a constructive reply while Argentina backed UN mediation and called for an immediate cease-fire.
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Gazette
Britain
Argentina
Falkland Islands
South Atlantic
United Nations
Javier Perez de Cuellar
U.S
Perez de Cuellar
U.N
Sheffield
United States
Nicholas Henderson
Falklands
Senate panel clears surprise budget plan
The Senate Budget Committee backed a Reagan supported plan to cut deficits by 188 billion over three years on a party line 11 to 9 vote. It would freeze non defense spending for three years, raise taxes, and seek 40 billion in Social Security savings. Deficits would be 105 billion in 1983, 70 billion in 1984, and 42 billion in 1985.
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Gazette Wire Services
Washington
Senate Budget Committee
Reagan
Senate
Pete V. Domenici
R-N.m
Domenici
White House
Budget Committee
Unemployed Jesup man held in infant son's killing
Jesup man Michael Craney 29 is jailed in Waterloo on a $1 million bond facing first degree murder in the slashing death of his 22 day old son Matthew Robert Craney. Craney appeared before a Buchanan County magistrate with a preliminary hearing set for May 14.
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Gazette
Jesup
Black Hawk County
Waterloo
Michael Cecil Craney
Buchanan
Frank Sauer
Buchanan County
Independence
Buchanan County District Court
Steven Ristvedt
Craney
Sauer
Ristvedt
Black Hawk
Kimberly
Matthew Robert Craney
Young St
Airport panel plans revised terminal work for Cedar Rapids
Clare Rice leads an Airport Commission re evaluation of the terminal project after bids and rates rose. Architect Ed Sauer presents two cut down schemes A and B with a potential mixed scheme C by the commission.
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Cedar Rapids
Clare Rice
Airport Commission
Ralph Burke & Associates
Commission
Ed Sauer
Sauer
Rice
Lost ring found in Marion shop worth six figures
Marilyn Meyer of Marilyn’s Closet in Marion found a $3,600 diamond dinner ring amid used clothing while sorting consignments. The owner, a Cedar Rapids woman who had misplaced the ring for over a year, retrieved it from an insurance claim. The finder recalled the moment as unforgettable and hoped similar luck won’t recur.
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Tom Fruehling
Azette Marion Bureau
Marilyn Meyer
Marilyn
Marion
Cedar Rapids
Kathy Hughes
Sessions truancy trial awaits state verdict
In Decorah Iowa the truancy case against Robert and Linda Sessions pauses as the Iowa Department of Public Instruction is asked to decide if the Sessions home program meets state requirements. The DPI will rule on whether time with a certified teacher satisfies the law and if the home program equals public schooling.
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Northeast
Iowa
Decorah
Robert
Linda Sessions
Iowa Department of Public Instruction
Erik
Sarah
DPI
Dennis Larson
Winneshiek County
Wayne Burns
Duane Rohovit
Wayne Jennings
St. Paul, Minn
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