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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1981
Page
12
Reagan warned editors at the White House that a nuclear war limited to Europe could occur, drawing sharp European criticism. Brezhnev condemned any superpower conflict as dangerous madness and Reagan rejected claims of planned limited war.
Poland's Jaruzelski replaces Kanin as Communist Party leader amid strikes over shortages and arrests of Solidarity activists. Violent clashes erupt in Katowice and Wroclaw as unions call a one hour national strike. Simultaneously, global leaders at a North-South summit seek cooperation, while Greece votes to shift away from NATO and Europe. A bombing in Antwerp wounds 99 and kills two. Nobel prizes awarded to Schawlow Bloombergen Hoff man Fukui.
A Pottawattamie County jury found James Michael T Bone Taylor guilty of first degree murder in the July 12 shooting deaths of two Waterloo police officers. Taylor, 29, faces a mandatory life sentence under Iowa law.
Two Mount Vernon boys aged 12 and 13 died last Sunday after running in front of a westbound freight as witnesses said they waited for an eastbound train to pass. The tragedy occurred near Mount Vernon with damage totaling $16,500 reported at a Marion site later.
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