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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1983
Page
2
Diplomatic sources report Libya moving toward full mobilization as leaves are canceled, students and teachers ordered to report to barracks, and the government requisitions four wheel drive vehicles. Recruitment of southern Libyan youths near Chad accelerates.
The Reagan administration allocates 15 million in emergency military aid to Chad from a 75 million fund to counter Libyan backed insurgents. The package, announced by the State Department, supplements 10 million approved earlier in July and aims to help Chad defend itself.
A 16 year old girl, Diane Rose Wulf of Evergreen Township near New Albany, was abducted at gunpoint from her rural home Monday and released early today. She is in stable condition at Towanda Memorial Hospital after treatment by Dr. John Gross. Authorities describe the suspect as 28, 5 foot 6, 200 pounds with dark hair and a mustache, last seen in the New Albany area.
A blast in Queens destroyed the Diagenis Night club and the Briteway laundry and damaged a nearby post office. No injuries were reported as police evacuated and used a crane to examine scorched rubble from the gas-fed fire that followed at 12:50 a.m. The cause remains unknown and the post office was condemned while mail damage was being assessed.
A diamond merchant, abducted in Manhattan’s diamond district, was forced into a car by a lone gunman and robbed of $500,000 in diamonds. He was later found unharmed near a gasoline station in Queens, the police said.
In Fair Haven Vermont Suzanne Bunker 22 learns her birth certificate lists her as a boy causing a delay to obtain a marriage license to wed Shane Plummer 26. She faces probate court to fix the error after being told same sex marriages are not allowed in Vermont.
In Chattanooga Tennessee Chantek a 60 pound orangutan trained in sign language escaped his University of Tennessee Chattanooga trailer for about an hour Thursday night. He signaled bad while subdued after guards lured him back with gum and cheeseburger tokens.
The Caldwell group reanalyzes Smoky test data showing no significant rise in overall cancer or mortality from 1937 to 1979 among about 3000 participants. The earlier 1957 leukemia signal may be due to chance or nonradiation factors, challenging push for compensation from atomic veterans.
A DC-8 with 254 passengers returned to Miami after an overnight hijack to Havana by a Cuban refugee who soaked in flammable liquid and flashed a lighter. A former Pompano Beach officer restrained him. Cuban authorities took him into custody. Two rear tires were replaced and the jet aired out after a eight hour cleanup in Havana. The incident marked the ninth domestic hijacking to Cuba since May 1 and the third involving Capitol flight 236 from San Juan to Miami.
In New York 16,500 striking Consolidated Edison workers voted to continue the seven week strike. Local 12 members rejected a three year tentative contract by 205 votes, despite a proposed wage raise of about 20 percent and improved benefits.union ads misfired while Staten Island mail-ballot results awaited.
Partly cloudy tonight with a mid 60s low and sunny periods, high near 85 tomorrow. Today heavy rain drenched the East from the Great Lakes to the Virginias, triggering local flood warnings in parts of northwestern Pennsylvania. Scattered storms stretched from Florida along the Gulf and into southern Texas, and across parts of Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, and the Dakotas. Route 62 in Warren County Pennsylvania flooded after midnight. Temperatures at 3 am EDT ranged from 53 to 96 across the nation, with 8 p.m. humidity at 90 percent and 8 a.m. today at 100 percent. Air quality moderate. pollution index 5. Weather data broadcast 14 hours daily on National Oceanic channels.
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