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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1981
Page
3
Joseph Helmich Jr., ex Army Signal Corpsman, pleaded guilty to conspiring to sell secret information to the Soviet Union. U.S. District Judge Susan Black sentenced him Friday to life in prison, stating he should serve the remainder of his natural life.
Egyptian security forces rounded up hundreds of suspected Islamist militants after an order from President Mubarak to thwart possible violence following Anwar Sadat’s assassination. Sources refusing identification said the crackdown targeted potential security threats nationwide.
In a Sapporo area mine, methane gas seeped into a deep shaft trapping 93 workers. Officials reported 42 bodies found and 51 missing as rescue efforts resumed after nightfall. 77 miners were rescued and 9 hospitalized with unknown conditions.
Nobel laureate James Tobin said Reaganomics would bring considerable pain to the poor, deepen inequality, and trap the U.S. in stagnation while industrial production fell 0.8 percent in September. Tobin spoke at NYU after being named 1981 Nobel Prize winner in Economic Science. He warned the plan would worsen inflation and employment despite tax cuts. Analysts doubted recovery, with Data Resources Inc. predicting a recession.
Iowa Travel Agents Association meets in Amana to discuss the University of Iowa plan to allow Beam Travel Center of Ithaca New York to open a campus branch. Critics say the move shifts funds from private agents. university officials insist it cuts costs and improves service with no university cost.
Twenty years ago the Cedar Rapids Board of Education finalized the acquisition of the land required for construction of two new junior high schools.
United Airlines will raise most coach fares in the transcontinental and mid continent markets including Cedar Rapids from November 1. Trans World Airlines and American Airlines will match the transcontinental increase. Pan American has no immediate plan to raise fares. United cites irrational pricing after recent cuts.
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