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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1981
Page
3
President Reagan denounces the Soviet Union as offering nothing to the global poor while defending aid to the needy amid opposition. Senate committee rejects AWACS sale to Saudi Arabia 9-8, but Reagan predicts passage on the floor.
Victor Navasky spoke at Cornell College and decried Heritage Foundation as echoing McCarthyism. Mercy Hospital must hand seven male employees’ files to the Civil Rights Commission amid a sex discrimination suit. A Cedar Rapids woman is hospitalized after a kidnapping. ex-boyfriend charged with kidnapping and assault. Hawkeyes vs Michigan clash eyed. Bortz Tippett face tough line. Aegis loses to Waterloo Columbus 21–0. Life Investors fights AGO takeover. stock market gains after losses. House votes to end peanut price supports and block sugar supports.
Census Bureau data show state governments spent 1010.43 per resident, up 10.5 percent from 1979. Alaska led with 4826.92 per resident, while Florida posted 719.21. Total expenditures rose to 257.8 billion, with education and welfare the major costs and taxes providing most revenues.
In Detroit, 38 year old Carolina Ortiz was sentenced to two to four years in prison after pleading guilty to child cruelty for deliberately starving her 3 year old daughter Rafaela to near death. Rafaela weighed 15 pounds when found. she was placed in a foster home along with five other children.
Amin lauds Saudi protection while bitter that Islamic nations have not aided his bid to regain power. He claims rebel support grows in Uganda and says he seeks arms from Muslim states. he notes his followers use spears and knives as they clash with Obote loyalists.
Bernard R. Condron 35 year old Tama police chief died Thursday after becoming ill at home. He had served as Tama chief since late July, previously led Stockton Illinois police. An autopsy was ordered. services pending at Harrison's Funeral Home Tama. Survivors include his wife and several children. Condron had been in the National Guard and earlier Genoa police patrolman.
In Poland the government agreed to a temporary freeze on food prices to avert a likely nationwide strike by Solidarity. The deal follows six hours of crisis talks led by Grzegorz Palka with Finance Minister Marian Krzak, while Solidarity demands for a watchdog council, export controls, and distribution reforms remain unresolved.
About two decades ago police in East Berlin used tear gas against a West Berlin crowd during a tense protest. Filmed footage circulated showing baton clashes and chanting as officers dispersed demonstrators.
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