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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1985
Page
4
Shiite militiamen and Palestinian fighters battled for control of Beirut camps amid house to house fighting. Dozens lay dead and police reported about 201 killed and 1,165 wounded since the conflict began.
Red Cross officials say dozens of dead remain uncounted as Palestinian guerrillas fight encircled by Shiite militiamen and Lebanese army in Beirut. In Sabra Chatila and Bourj el Barajneh camps, gunmen fire from improvised fortifications while civilians mourn victims of a car bombing in East Beirut. Authorities report 37 killed in Sin el Fil blast with 21 missing.
A Rhode Island judge ruled that testimony from Claus von Bulow's former mistress Alexandra Isles cannot be admitted at his retrial. The ruling found the prosecution failed to locate Isles, last in Europe and unwilling to testify again, despite her pivotal 1979 claim of a divorce deadline linked to the wife's comas.
Thomas Patrick Cavanagh, a Northrop engineer at Pico Rivera California, was sentenced to two life terms served concurrently after pleading remorse for attempting to sell stealth bomber secrets to the Soviets. He contacted the Soviet consulate in San Francisco and the Soviet Embassy in Washington to peddle document details.
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