House votes to cite Lavelle for contempt over EPA subpoenas
The House unanimously, 413 to 0, reasons former EPA official Rita Lavelle for contempt after she refused to testify about alleged mismanagement of the Superfund program. The case moves to the Justice Department for possible indictment. Lavelle argues for quick resolution as Ruckelshaus is sworn in to lead EPA amid acid rain and enforcement push.
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House
Environmental Protection Agency
Rita Lavelle
Congress
Lavelle
EPA
Reagan
Justice Department
William Ruckelshaus
Hope Turns 80 at Lakeside Party with Ford Supervising
Veteran comedian Bob Hope blows out candles at a surprise party for his 80th birthday at Lakeside Country Club Los Angeles. Former President Gerald Ford supervises the event as guests wish him well. May 29 marks the milestone.
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Bob Hope
Gerald Ford
Lakeside Country Club
Los Angeles
Hope
Head of police boosters charged with drug dealing
Lois Szukala 51 led a booster group named Ladies Assisting Cops Enthusiastically and was charged with selling PCP to undercover officers posing as high school students. She was arrested at her El Sereno home on April 29, faces a May 31 arraignment, and remains jailed on 15 000 bail.
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LOS Angeles
Ladies Assisting Cops
Lois Szukala
Police Department
Szukala
el Sereno
Robert Taylor
Lincoln High School
Taylor
LACE
Clayton Mayes
Northeast
Dick Stevens
Syria Rejects Habib as Beirut Seeks Lebanese Pullout
U S envoy Philip Habib was rebuffed by Syria after a Beirut meeting with President Amin Gemayel. Damascus said it had nothing to discuss and would not negotiate with Lebanon on the Syrian and Palestinian pullout, risking continued division of Lebanon into Israeli and Syrian occupied zones. Sudan's Nimeiri joined Egypt and Saudi Arabia in backing the Israeli-Lebanese accord.
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Gazette Wire
U.S
Philip Habib
Syria
Beirut
Habib
Amin Gemayel
Damascus
Lebanon
Israel
United States
Gaafar Nimeiri
Egypt
Saudi Arabia
AIDS linked to heterosexual contact study hints broader transmission
Six of seven female partners of men with AIDS show signs of infection, suggesting heterosexual transmission alongside homosexual spread. Montefiore Medical Center researchers publish in the New England Journal of Medicine, noting AIDS threatens the general population beyond prior high risk groups.
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Boston
Journal of the American Medical Association
Neal H. Steigbigel
United States
Montefiore Medical Center
New York
New England Journal of Medicine
Morris Plan offers 5000 to 15000 loan with 90 day deferment
Break from payments with Morris Plan lending from five thousand to fifteen thousand dollars and no payments due for ninety days. Consolidate total monthly payments into one and delay the first payment for ninety days. Call Ken or John at 3630261 for details.
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Morris Plan
Ken
John
Congress drug probe finds leads not pursued on Capitol Hill
Special House investigator Joseph Califano concludes in a 48 page report that 1980 investigations found substantial leads about drug use and trafficking only among low level employees and three Capitol Police officers, with no Congress members or staff implicated. The probe covered only that specific inquiry.
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Congressional
Capitol Hill
House
Joseph Califano
Capitol
Congress
Literacy test upheld keeps Florida diplomas withheld
A federal appeals court in Atlanta on Wednesday upheld Florida's functional literacy test. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied a stay in a 2-1 decision, allowing the state to withhold diplomas from about 1,300 high school seniors who failed the exam.
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Atlanta
Florida
11Th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Spock Criticizes Fingerprinting for Children
Benjamin Spock told reporters that fingerprinting children will not reduce kidnapping and may harm children by creating unnecessary fears. He cited evidence but declined to disclose details of the proof.
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New York
Benjamin Spock
Spock
Racial law upheld in Louisiana on race blood rule
A Louisiana law defining someone as black if they have 1/32nd Negro blood was upheld by Magistrate Frederick Ellis. Susie Guillory Phipps, asserting she is white, had sought a declaration of unconstitutionality and a white classification. Her birth certificate remains black though her skin is white. her lawyer said an appeal would follow.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Susie Guillory Phipps
Frederick Ellis
Phipps
Brian Begue
Bieber to head UAW
Owen Bieber was elected president of the United Auto Workers, replacing retiring Douglas Fraser who leaves the $73,000-a-year post after six years. The vote ends the Old Guard era that had governed since Walter Reuther.
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Dallas
United Auto Workers
Owen Bieber
Walter Reuther
Bieber
Douglas Fraser
Fraser
The Gazette of Cedar Rapids Press Details
The Gazette established 1883 by The Gazette Company publishes daily and Sunday at 500 Third Avenue SE Cedar Rapids Iowa 52406. Subscriptions vary by carrier mail and territorial locations with weekly and yearly rates listed. The Associated Press retains exclusive republication rights for local news and AP dispatches.
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Gazette
Gazette Company
Third Avenue SE
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
U.S
Associated Press
Debt limit hike OK'd to nearly $1.4 trillion
The House silently approved President Reagan's request to raise the national debt limit by about 100 billion dollars to almost 1.4 trillion. The measure, passed by voice vote, moves to the Senate for action.
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Washington
House
Reagan
Senate
Thatcher lines up 1983 campaign on economic measures
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher outlined a re election platform calling for curbs on labor unions denationalization of state industries and Britain hosting U S cruise missiles. She pledged to abolish the Greater London Council and other metropolitan authorities and curb tax powers of Labour city councils.
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Labor
Margaret Thatcher
Britain
U.S
Greater London
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