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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1982
Page
2
In Tripoli Lebanon fighting between rival Moslem militias left several dead and many wounded. Police and civic leaders urged more police as cease-fire efforts faltered. Across Chouf mountains clashes between Christians and Druse added to the toll.
San Jose police chief says the cyanide poisoning of Susan Bowen from Anacin-3 is being treated as attempted murder. The investigation targets friends and drug store workers, with her husband to undergo a lie detector test. Bowen, 30, was hospitalized after an apparent stroke and cyanide was found in capsules and in her system.
About 50 000 demonstrators gathered in Managua’s Plaza de la Revolucion blaming the United States for the deaths of 84 children and nine women in a Mi-8 helicopter crash. Officials say a full cause remains undetermined though early evidence points to an accident.
WAUWATOSA Wisconsin AP students warned a day ahead that chewing tobacco would be banned at Wauwatosa East and West high schools alongside cigarettes alcohol and hard drugs. Superintendent Maurice Sullivan cited messy habits as a growing trend with juice and tobacco spatter on floors walls restrooms and water coolers. Board member Margaret Farris tied the habit to Brewers manager Harvey Kuenn who spurned behavior in the dugout.
Question and answer style briefing outlines new federal gasoline and diesel taxes rising 5 to 9 cents per gallon, new heavy-truck fees, and exemptions for bus operators. It details effective dates, cost impacts for drivers and trucking firms, weight and mileage rules, distribution formulas, and expected annual revenue around 5.5 billion dollars for highway and transit uses.
Atlantic City New Jersey AP reports a massive early Friday blaze destroyed the four story main building of the Steel Pier, a landmark hosting acts from Sousa to the Beatles. Fire officials warn embers and shifting winds threaten nearby structures as arson is suspected and one man is held for questioning. Built in 1898 the 2215 foot pier was the first with steel and concrete understructure and remains under heavy smoke with pockets of fire.
Jurors in the Teamsters president Roy L. Williams bribery conspiracy trial asked for seven written transcripts of FBI wiretap conversations that underpin the government case. Judge Prentice Marshall denied a request to give jurors copies of final instructions and the indictment to take to their hotel rooms.
More than 1000 protesters marched through Oroville California in a peaceful demonstration sparked by the slaying of 17 year old Joe Hoover a local police informant who was found shot eight times in a marsh west of the city. Police noted the crowd was loud but orderly and denounced racists and Nazis. The rally culminated at a junior high school.
A fog bound crash near Savannah killed at least four people as dense weather spread across Georgia and the Northeast. The week of storms raised Mississippi and Alabama rainfall totals, while the Midwest faced freezing floods and a rising national death toll. Four victims were identified, with a possible fifth, as searchers combed the wreckage of a twin-engine Cessna 421 near Savannah Municipal Airport.
Fragmentary weather log reports yesterday low of 47 and today 71 with 4.8 inches to date. Tomorrow morning forecast at 7:28 and 4:30 p.m. observation times appear garbled.
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