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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1983
Page
3
In a one year arrangement starting July 1 pending review the city votes to transfer administration of a disabled housing complex to Systems Unlimited of Iowa City. Metro-Iowa coverage on page 16A notes the move awaiting further assessment.
Marjory Mecklenburg leads the Adolescent Family Life Program a controversial $13.5 million federal effort to curb teen sex. The piece notes popular culture offering seductive images as the main challenge to teens on health page 10.
A health note explains osteoporosis as a condition that accelerates bone loss in women over 60, often described as the disease of little old ladies. It details its prevalence, affecting about one in four women in this age group, and highlights its progressive nature.
Promoters offered millions to the Eagles to reunite but failed. The event still staged a notable coup with David Bowie performing his first U.S. appearance in over five years, reported in entertainment on page 3D.
President Reagan will issue a statement urging Iran to halt the executions of prominent Bahais, calling the persecution alarming and dismaying. The move follows congressional resolutions pressing the issue, with Bahai officials noting hundreds of past executions and worldwide religious intolerance.
Yankees owner George M. Steinbrenner allowed his ship building company to assist federal investigators in a 1970s national security matter involving ship surveillance and potential hostile intelligence agents posing as businessmen. Officials said details remain sensitive and unclear, with the FBI and other agencies coordinating. Steinbrenner chairs American Ship Building Co., which operates yards in Ohio Illinois and Tampa Florida and used repair docks in Tampa as part of the inquiry. He reportedly surfaced this involvement in a defrauding lawsuit over oil gas and coal securities.
London AP report says Kenneth Clark, the aristocratic British art historian and creator of the Civilisation TV series, died peacefully after a short illness at Hythe Nursing Home near his Kent home. A former National Gallery director and adviser to King George VI, Clark was born July 13, 1903 and leaves wife Nolwen and three children.
An 84-year-old woman and her 86-year-old sister survived a firebombing blamed on an acquaintance of a youth already convicted of breaking windows at their home last December. The sisters, residents of Detroit’s northwest side since 1980 and 1938 respectively, face fear and displacement as investigators seek clues. The youth was placed in a county youth home pending transfer to a boys' training school near Ann Arbor.
The United States and Britain vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution that would extend trade sanctions against Rhodesia to cover South Africa and Portuguese territories in Africa, blocking the measure.
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