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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1983
Page
15
A preliminary autopsy found former Perry mayor Duane Lewiston died of natural causes. The 54 year old was found near the Raccoon River after friends searched for him when he did not return from a fishing trip.
President Reagan endorses a build down of long range weapons at congressional urging and names Woolsey to the delegation. Rowny to open Geneva talks as the United States and Soviet Union negotiate missile limits and possible deployment changes in Europe.
Wind NW at 5 mph at 10 p m. Sunset 6 42 p m sunrise 7 09 a m Thursday. Year ago high 74 low 52 with .04 precip. Record high 89 in 1963 and low 28 in 1935. Extended forecast little or no rain Friday to Sunday. Highs 63 to 73 lows in 40s. National extremes: low 23 at Alamosa Colorado, high 100 at Waco Texas.
Storms scattered from the mid Mississippi to Ohio Valleys with hail in Missouri and 70 mph gusts near Patton and Mount Vernon. Record highs set in Waco Boston Dallas Fort Smith with widespread showers across the nation east of the Mississippi and mostly fair western weather.
President Kennedy announced a Cuba embargo in 1962 restricting United States trade except for certain foods and medicines. In 1966 the Soviet Luna IX moon probe landed and sent back photographs.
The plan credits deregulation and increased energy efficiency for lower prices and reduced dependence on foreign oil. It cites the Strategic Petroleum Reserve with 360 million barrels stored in Louisiana salt formations and backs natural gas decontrol and coal and oil leasing on federally owned lands. It also supports weatherization and low income aid while opposing broad appliance efficiency mandates.
Forrest W. Seymour, Pulitzer Prize winning editorial page editor of The Des Moines Register, died in Hyannis Massachusetts from heart disease complications at age seventy eight. Born in Arlington Washington he joined the paper in 1926 and rose to editorial pages chief before leaving in 1953 to join the Worcester Telegram associate editor post.
Soviet sources suggest that failure of interceptors to gain visual contact with KAL 007 may have led Far East command to decide the aircraft was on an espionage mission and should be shot down. They imply high level involvement, while Marshal Ogarkov’s briefing asserts missiles could have downed it without fighters.
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