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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1982
Page
2
December 13, 1982 reports show a crowded assault on a suspect drawing attention to a bogged down Congress and a rising local movement nicknamed city farmers. Other briefs note bridges in trouble and Cleveland look ahead.
Secretary of State George P. Shultz met Pope John Paul II in Vatican City to discuss news that Poland will ease martial law by year’s end. He then met Italian Premier Fanfani on a busy European tour to talk U S missiles in Italy and Western Europe and planned talks with Egyptian President Mubarak on Lebanon negotiations. In Vienna Bulgaria charged the CIA helped finance and plan Mehmet Ali Agca’s papal assassination attempt, amid Italian arrests of Bulgarian agents. A Grandfield Oklahoma crash left 23 month old Levi Y McDonel dead after a cargo door blew open midflight. The boy fell from a plane taking off from Grandfield Airport while passengers were restrained. The uncle pilot Cleatus McDonel and other relatives aboard were uninjured.
In Chariton Iowa a former stray dog Blue was awarded a silver medal a collar six months of dog food and a 500 savings bond after saving Harold Webb from entanglement in a post hole drill on his farm on November 7 1981. Webb recovered telling how Blue urged him to seek help as his clothing tightened around his neck. Betty Webb assisted in the rescue.
Delavan Darien High School principal Russell Draeger objects to Welch’s Sparkling Red and White Grape Juice being marketed for team celebrations. He fired off letters to athletic boards and officials claiming the foil topped bottles imitate real alcohol and encourage youth abuse. Welch’s says about 25 letters have arrived, mostly from Wisconsin, with the program in place for seven years.
Frigid weather piled up snow from North Carolina to Maine and shut roads and airports. The weekend storm caused power outages and at least eight deaths on icy roads in Ohio Virginia and Tennessee. Schools closed or delayed across Maryland Delaware and nearby districts while temperatures plunged to record lows from New York to Florida. Nantucket stranded tourists and outer banks ferries halted as crews mobilized snow removal and salt. Red Cross shelters opened in Richmond amid outages. Salvation Army provided meals via National Guard aid.
President Reagan signals near abandonment of the dense pack basing concept for the MX missile as he seeks Senate approval to buy the first five Peacekeeper weapons. White House and Pentagon seek a compromise with Senate Republicans while House members oppose dense pack and study alternatives. If the Senate approves procurement, the bill returns to the House for another vote.
Scattered snow lingered in the Northeast as bitter cold spread along the East Coast with low accumulation. Rain spread across the West valleys and coastal fog blanketed central and southern California. Temperatures ranged from 8 below in Limestone Maine to 69 in Key West Florida with fair conditions elsewhere.
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