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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Sep 12, 1985

Page

3

Botha offers blacks in white South Africa citizenship

President Botha announced blacks in nominally independent homelands can have their South African citizenship restored, while vowing to chart a unilateral path on reform. He would grant dual citizenship to many blacks inside homelands as protests and sanctions loom.

Botha South Africa Pieter W. Botha United States Washington Senate Reagan Chamber Iowa Tom Harkin Charles Grassley Cape Town Nelson Mandela African National Congress Mandela Pretoria Party Sheena Duncan Black Sash Movement Azanian People’s Organization Pampili Ndloko

White House drafts trade plan to head off protectionism

The Reagan administration works with Republican leaders on new trade legislation to curb rising protectionist bills in Congress. Officials talk of a $300 million Treasury subsidy for export credits to counter France subsidies and push for freer trade negotiations.

Washington White House Capitol Hill Reagan Congress Sen John Heinz Pennsylvania Heinz Treasury Department France Veterans Administration House Veterans Arena Bob Edgar D-Pa House Veterans Affairs Committee

Abduction Stove: Duarte's Daughter Stolen in San Salvador

San Salvador security forces recovered a stolen red van used in the abduction of President Jose Napoleon Duarte's daughter and a second woman, Ana Cecilia Velleda, 23. No clues to victims' whereabouts or suspects emerged despite a massive search.

San Salvador el Salvador Jose Napoleon Duarte Julio Adolfo Rey Prednes Duran Ana Cecilia Velleda Duarte Birmingham London Margaret Thatcher Douglas Hurd Handsworth

Hitler's last soldier surrenders in United States

Georg Gaertner once of Rommel's Afrika Korps, living as Dennis Whiles near Denver, gave himself up to the INS in San Pedro. He fled New Mexico in 1945 after escaping Camp Deming and becomes the FBI's longest outstanding fugitive, awaiting possible citizenship talks.

Los Angeles Georg Gaertner Erwin Rommel Afrika Korps New Mexico Gaertner Denver Dennis Whiles Hitler America U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service United States U.S INS Western Harold Ezell San Pedro Ezell Camp Deming Schweidnitz FBI INS Ronald Oldenburg Hawaii Michael John Biber Biber

House trims transportation bill but rejects deep Amtrak cuts

The House reduced about 1 billion from a 10.1 billion transportation appropriation while shelving major subsidies cuts for Amtrak and mass transit after a day of amendments. Final action on the measure was postponed to today amid debate.

Washington House Amtrak Mass

Kidnap Attempt Foiled Near Green Line in Beirut

Lebanese troops stopped an attempted kidnapping of Portuguese ambassador Luis Gonzaga Ferreira and his wife in South Lebanon near the Green Line. Gunmen fired as the car passed the East West Beirut boundary. chauffeur seized, assailants fled under fire. The couple returned safely to Hazmiyeh.

Beirut Lebanon Luis Gonzaga Ferreira Israel Maria Ferreira 6Th Brigade East Beirut Hazmiyeh Christian East Beirut Antonius Eitel Syrian National Socialist Party Hatzbaya

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