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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1983
Page
2
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher announced a general election for June 9 to maximize Conservative mandate. She cited national interest and rising public support as reasons, while Labour leader Michael Foot criticized the move as premature and warned of a tougher leftist platform.
President Francois Mitterrand urged a return to fixed US allied currency rates as he compared the crisis to postwar rebuilding. He warned France may skip the Williamsburg OECD summit if it fails and pressed for a new Bretton Woods framework. Shultz projected growth and urged allies to limit Soviet bloc trade impact.
Parliament may face questions on Thursday as Lech Walesa and labor leaders press for immediate union plurality under law, freeing imprisoned dissidents, and rehiring workers fired for union activity. The letter targets banned branch and autonomous unions once rival to Solidarity.
A newly discovered comet named Iras Araki Alcock will skim 3.1 to 3.5 million miles from Earth tonight and be visible in the northern sky near the Big Dipper. Discovered April 25 by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite, it moves at 27 miles per second with a 15000 mile tail, observable with naked eye or binoculars if skies are clear. It is the closest approach since 1770 when Comet Lexell passed by.
Vatican officials say the Galileo research panel nears completion and its likely exoneration of the Italian scientist. Pope John Paul II told scientists the Church has grown in understanding of authority and the Galileo affair.
Six year old Charles Boyd climbed into his mother’s car and drove about five miles toward Interstate 85 before it left the road and stopped. A passerby saw him after he jumped out and led the boy to Garlock Industries in Gastonia where his father works.
Stern magazine asks prosecutors to file fraud charges against Heidemann the top investigative reporter who claimed to find Hitler diaries. editors and editors resignations follow as government tests deem documents obvious fakes. His wife denies any wrongdoing and says evidence was verified. The Sunday Times returns payment while authorities pursue the case.
Yuri Andropov, identified publicly as chairman of the National Defense Council, may be consolidating Kremlin power. Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov, writing in Pravda, calls him both party leader and head of the council, a body believed to control Soviet military policy. It is unclear how long he held the post once held by Leonid Brezhnev.
Seoul signed an accord with Beijing to return the hijacked Chinese jetliner and its passengers and crew to China. Six hijackers are not to be returned. Departure was set for this afternoon after earlier paperwork delays amid the first openly acknowledged China South Korea talks.
Guerrillas seized the fortified Cinquera in Cabanas and overran four posts amid a day-long siege. Radio Venceremos claims 60+ soldiers killed or wounded while Tejutepeque reports 400 reinforcements prepared to retake Cinquera.
U S traffic fatalities fell 10 percent last year to 46 300, the lowest per mile death rate in history, with analysts citing a mix of factors including reduced drinking and tougher anti DUI efforts amid a weak economy.
In Inland California a dune buggy breakdown stopped a scrap metal visit as Marine Corps jets conducted bombing runs over a practice range. Jimmy Earl Watkins aged 35 died and his father Hance Buddy Watkins aged 58 was seriously wounded with shrapnel and possible foot loss, authorities said.
The EPA announced a large decrease in polychlorinated biphenyls in U S residents. The share with high PCB levels fell from 9.7 percent in 1977 to 1 percent in 1981, signaling progress after months of criticism of agency failures.
Don Clay, acting administrator at the EPA, praises progress showing environmental regulations reducing chemical compounds in the environment, describing the development as dramatic proof of regulatory impact.
The United States expelled Afghan second secretary Masjedi Hewadmal after Afghanistan expelled U S diplomat Peter Graham for perverting Afghan youth by using pornographic literature to purchase rugs. The Afghan envoy was given 48 hours to depart.
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