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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1982
Page
2
Aug 22, 1982 edition shows diary mystery from Monroe with analysis at A4. Schultz outlines strategy on A4 and housing rules criticized on A6. News Analyses discuss New Right missed chance on A3 and weakening U.S. ties with Taiwan on A5.
Interior Secretary James Watt denied state permission to widen U S 27 to four lanes inside the Chickamauga Chattanooga National Military Park. Park Superintendent Ann Belkov calls Watt a champion of the park, citing historic resources and wildlife safety.
A pocket of gas exploded at the Daicei Chemical Industries plant near Osaka, killing four workers and injuring 63 others, with 10 seriously. Police evacuated about 2,000 people from a one mile radius as a fire raged in a tank for over six hours. No immediate danger of another explosion was reported.
President Ferdinand Marcos was admitted to Manila's Veterans Memorial Hospital with a cold, chills, fever, and cough as a precautionary measure. Spokesman Adrian Cris tobal said it is not serious and he is resting comfortably. The 64-year-old leader plans a trip to the United States next month.
In April twenty two contestants began a Riverside Bicycle Club challenge to avoid driving. Finalists include Dwight Davis Paul Madore and Oliver Miller with about $1000 in prizes and a $400 bicycle for the winner. Rules bar driving or riding in a car owned by self or family and ban relatives drivers. Davis nearly violates rules by testing a neighbor's car before being stopped by his wife and child.
Milwaukee TV meteorologist Joe Witte, who warned against using phones in storms for a decade, was jolted by lightning while calling from his East Side home at 11:45 p.m. Thursday. He felt a tingling in his ear and arm as his line was struck, power to his home briefly went out, and he admitted he ignored his own advice while tracking the storm.
A 37 page Energy Department inspector general report finds the department forgave 755 million dollars in unwarranted enrichment price relief to utilities since 1979. The study warns higher future rates may flow to consumers unless Congress acts, while no specific utilities are named.
About 400 Palestinian guerrillas aboard the Limassol registered freighter Sol Georgious reached the Cypriot port of Larnaca at dawn to be ferried by bus to the airport for jet evacuation to Jordan and Iraq. A number of wounded would stay in Cyprus for treatment as the exodus progresses with one ship expected daily for up to a week.
Reports said Israeli forces were 16 to 17 miles from Damascus while U.S. envoy Philip Habib prepared talks to remove Israeli and Syrian troops from Lebanon. President Reagan, briefed en route to California, noted progress as Beirut houses filled with displaced civilians and casualties topped five thousand amid renewed ceasefires. Residents praised Habib as evacuations proceeded with Lebanese troops to assume port control after initial delays.
The piece notes the shift to heavier mobilization with armored personnel carriers, tanks, and aircraft. It highlights higher firepower and weapon lethality increasing consumption and replacement needs. A general emphasizes that professionals focus on logistics and sustainability, not just tactics, as decisive in war.
Seymour was arrested for disorderly conduct after staging a campaign disruption at a local event. He asked authorities to call police and distributed more campaign literature, then faced a September 2 court appearance in Guilderland Town Court. He plans to seek dismissal on constitutional grounds and pursue appeals if denied.
Thunderstorms lashed northwestern Minnesota with 90 mph winds, downing power lines and roofs. In California firefighters fought a mounting brush fire on Mount San Jacinto after lightning. A cool Canadian air mass drove a record low in Michigan, while skies cleared in the northern Rockies and Ohio Valley. Sunset and sunrise times, yesterday's temps, and humidity are listed.
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