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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1983
Page
6
An opinion piece discusses new medical tests capable of detecting trace amounts of steroids, promising stronger deterrence for athletes. It notes potential impact on U S competitors at Pan American and Olympic levels and frames the issue within sports ethics and fairness.
The Police stay atop Dick Clark's ranking with Every Breath You Take leading for seven weeks. The page notes the group's enduring chart dominance across audiences and regions.
Two Cedar Rapids Community school board aspirants vow to keep McKinley Junior High School open while two others offer qualified responses to questions from the hosting forum. The piece notes local political division outlined at the Cedar Rapids event.
Jerry Lewis returns for a 2 1/2 hour Muscular Dystrophy Association telethon after heart surgery last year. He aims to deliver a stronger performance not seen in the prior 17 broadcasts.
A cattlemen official from southern Iowa warns the drought stricken beef cow calf sector may not survive without federal help. He cites drought, high feed costs and low livestock prices as the triple hit. Asa Black at the University of Iowa faces denial of tenure and a 1985 contract expiry after a promotion decision in the anatomy department.
Johnson County Clerk of Court Mary Conklin agreed to work with a firm from Cedar Rapids for microfilming court documents after considering bypassing the supervisors selection. The Board of Supervisors had chosen a Hiawatha firm, and Conklin said she would ask the county attorney if she could ignore that choice. East Iowa page 10C.
Walid Jumblatt threatens to attack the Marines unless they stay neutral as the Lebanese army pushes Druse and Amal forces from West Beirut. President Reagan orders 2000 more Marines to Lebanese waters amid a dawn escalation with 94 dead and 413 wounded overall.
Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir won Herut Party nomination to become Prime Minister, defeating Deputy Premier David Levy 436 to 302 in a secret ballot. Begin’s resignation strains coalition as Shamir must form a broad alliance to retain a Likud majority in the Knesset.
A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld copyright protection for all computer programs, strengthening shields for major computer and software manufacturers. The decision could curb cheap imitators of popular PCs and programs and limit consumer access to low priced copies.
Houston astronauts extended the Challenger shuttle's 50 foot robotic arm for five hours on Thursday. The arm grasped a 7,460 pound barbell shaped device, the heaviest object tested to date with the arm during the simulated space maneuver.
The Environmental Protection Agency expanded its priority cleanup list by 133 sites, bringing the total to 546 of the nation s worst dumps. Officials warned the final inventory could top 1 000 before completion.
A Harvard expert says HTLV the Human T Cell Leukemia Virus is the leading candidate for causing AIDS. A multi university and CDC study notes many AIDS victims show HTLV exposure while hemophiliacs show higher rates, supporting infectious agent theory and viral involvement in T helper cell destruction.
Sen Henry Scoop Jackson of Washington dies at 71 after a massive heart attack. He was pronounced dead on arrival at Providence Hospital in Everett. A former presidential candidate and longtime ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, he reached his 11,000th roll call vote earlier this July.
Jimmy Lee Gray, 34, was executed in the gas chamber at Parchman Mississippi for suffocating and sexually abusing 3 year old Deressa Jean Scales. The Supreme Court declined to halt the sentence as he awaited death in the stainless steel chamber.
An engineering student and member of the Popular Liberation Forces told reporters he executed Lt Cmdr Albert A Schautelberger, deputy chief of U.S. military advisers in El Salvador. Police identified the suspect as Daniel Alvarado Rivera, 23, a member of the FPL, active since 1979. In Geneva, Yasser Arafat arrived to address the UN Conference on Palestine, flying from Tunis.
Anthony Quinn returns to the role in a Broadway musical production of Zorba set to begin next month. The show reunites him with director Michael Cacoyannis and co stars Lila Kedrova who Oscar winner for The film. The premiere is scheduled for Oct 16. The narrative notes a separate Indiana segment on French ambassador Bernard Vernier Pallier attending 200th anniversary Treaty of Paris events.
Connie and Roger Smith watched Gavin Trevor Kirstin and Meredith begin kindergarten at Crowell Elementary School in Turlock California. The five year olds born November 3 1977 joined two classes split between the same morning session after a Tuesday familiarization.
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