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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1983
Page
10
Nation and White House weigh the fallout after Interior Secretary James Watt called an advisory panel "a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple" in a remark described as not funny. The incident threatens Watt's role in the Reagan administration amid broad public reaction.
Two unidentified student demonstrators are aided by peers after injuries during rioting in front of the presidential palace in Manila. President Ferdinand Marcos warned he may be compelled to institute martial law to quell the unrest.
World American Forces backed the Lebanese army for the first time as a Navy cruiser and destroyer fired dozens of five inch shells near Souk el Gharb while French jets hit anti government batteries east of Beirut.
A rural Iowa farm tragedy left Linda Kratzfield Emerson dead and her husband badly wounded as authorities investigate a questionable death. Wisconsin prison escapees Leonard Specht and Mark Bell hijacked a Monona couple for 24 hours before surrendering as police pursued across rural Iowa.
Metro Ozark Airlines will discontinue its Cedar Rapids to Chicago flights by mid November due to low passenger counts. Britt Airways plans to start four daily non stop Chicago flights November 15, expanding options for travelers.
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