U.S. dismisses Nicaraguan proposals as deficient
The Reagan administration criticized Nicaragua’s plans to halt outside aid to guerrillas as deficient and said it will not hold direct talks with the Sandinista government. Washington urged Contadora as the proper venue and warned negotiations could take a long time.
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Washington
Reagan
Nicaragua
Central America
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Contadora Group of
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Venezuela
Colombia
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United States
Langhorne Motley
Miguel D’escoto
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Hotel bookings block Geneva reconciliation conference talks
In Beirut eight Lebanese and Syrian rivals reach agreement to hold the national reconciliation conference in Geneva. Hotel rooms are fully booked due to a telecom conference, delaying acceptance of a site as rival factions push for a November 1 date. Fighting continues in southern Lebanon with various flare ups.
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Israel
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Protests Block Front Gate at Wiley Barracks in West Germany
About 700 anti-missile demonstrators picketed the front gate of Wiley Barracks while 1,000 German police stood by. Protesters did not close two other gates. in Bonn riot police cleared hundreds outside two ministries as anti-nuclear protests target NATO deployment set to begin in December.
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Bonn
Manfred Woerner
NATO
U.S
Europe
Iran claims capture of key garrison towns in Iraqi Kurdistan
Iran says it seized Penjwin and Garmak in the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan as part of a new offensive, reporting 3500 Iraqi casualties. Iraq says it routed the Iranians with furious fighting and claims over 1500 Iranian deaths, while independent verification is blocked.
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Cyprus
Iran
Penjwin
Garmak
Iraqi Kurdistan
Iraq
Walesa Turned Away From Shipyard Return
Lech Walesa, 40, labor leader and Lenin Shipyard figure, was denied entry after a five week sick leave. A yard clinic doctor ordered a medical check and prohibited return until October 28, as secretary Bozena Rybicka said.
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Poland
Lech Walesa
Lenin
Bozena Rybicka
Walesa
Oklahoma rescue teams battle 7 foot floodwaters in Guthrie
Guthrie Oklahoma faces 7 foot floodwaters as Cottonwood Creek nears ten feet over flood stage. State and local responders evacuate hundreds while rescuers use ropes and large boats to reach stranded residents amid remnants of Hurricane Tico. Five deaths reported in Oklahoma with spillover rains reaching Missouri and Kansas. Gov. Nigh declares state of emergency to mobilize National Guard and relief crews.
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Dan Ward
Oklahoma
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Missouri
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Cimarron
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National Guard
Jim Morton
Oklahoma Lake Patrol
Heat Wave Drives Air Conditioning Costs to 9.5 Billion
Government reports 1983 US summer costs for cooling at 9.5 billion, about 710 million above normal as 84 million households spent 112 dollars each on AC. Separate story notes a boy named David with severe combined immune deficiency in a sterile bubble. transplant at Texas Children’s Hospital by Baylor College of Medicine doctors with three months to gauge success.
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Washington
Weather Assessment and Information Services Center
David
Baylor College of Medicine
Texas Children's Hospital
Reagan apologizes to King widow over remarks on communism
President Reagan told Mrs. King he was sorry for remarks about whether Martin Luther King Jr was a communist sympathizer. He said the public image of King often differs from reality and said he would sign the King holiday bill despite earlier reservations.
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Washington
Reagan
Martin Luther King Jr
King
Senate
New Hampshire
Meldrim Thomson
Thomson
Klein
Air Force One
FBI
Pipe smoker deplaned stranded after Fargo stop incident
Walter Meserve 46 from North Berwick Maine refused to extinguish a pipe aboard Northwest Flight 78 from Seattle to Washington DC and was deplaned at Fargo Hector Airport. Other carriers refused to board him, forcing a Greyhound trip to Minneapolis. Northwest refunded $318.
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Northwest Airlines
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Walter Meserve
North Berwick
Maine
Northwest
Seattle
Washington, D.C
Boston
Brent Bashfield
Rocky Mountains
Meserve
Baskfield
Hector
Matt Gonring
Frontier Airlines
Republic Airlines
Greyhound
James Kapitan
Clark promises review of Watt policies in meeting
Interior Secretary designate William Clark met with environmental leaders and pledged a review of James Watt's policies and management team. He also promised regular future briefings, contrasting Watt's two-year tenure.
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Washington
William Clark
James Watt
Clark
Watt
Surgery on bubble boy in Houston advances leap toward normal life
A 12 year old boy who has spent his life in a sterile plastic bubble received a bone marrow transplant early Friday. Doctors hope the procedure will enable him to leave the bubble and live a more normal life.
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Houston
The Gazette History and Subscription Rates
The Gazette established 1883 by The Gazette Company publishes daily and Sunday at Cedar Rapids Iowa. Subscriptions offered by carrier and mail with weekly and yearly pricing. mail service limited by carrier availability.
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THE
Gazette
Gazette Company
Third Avenue SE
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
U.S
Associated Press
Ex-lab officials convicted in Chicago drug testing case
Three former Industrial Bio-Test Laboratories officials were found guilty of falsifying safety test results on drugs and chemicals from the 1970s. Moreno Keplinger, Paul Wright, and James Plank faced a trial that concluded with the verdict unsealed Friday.
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Chicago
Bio-Test Laboratories
Moreno Keplinger
Paul Wright
James Plank
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