29 Jul 1983
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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1983
Page
1
A medical feature reports efforts to ease public anxiety about treatment and illness, detailing new approaches and patient education initiatives aimed at improving trust in care facilities.
National Weather Service forecasters at Hancock Airport predict a 70 percent chance of showers tonight with low 65 to 70 degrees and light southwest winds. Tomorrow highs near 90 with a 50 percent shower or thunderstorm chance as a hot muggy day follows. Temperatures continue with scattered showers Sunday and Monday and a 60 to 80 degree range on Tuesday.
British actor David Niven died in a Swiss hospital at age 73 after a yearlong deteriorating neuro muscular disorder. Publicist Jane Sylvester stated the exact cause is unknown but linked to his long illness.
President Reagan dismisses claims of bigotry as totally false and says he is courting Black voters as the election year approaches, insisting the charge frustrates him. The remark comes as political strategy heats up in Washington.
Albany officials report last night’s daily numbers game winner as 199 with Win Four 3490. The dated press snippet confirms the winning figures for the state lottery drawing.
A literature class ends in a dry joke when a student volunteers the single word dead to describe Edgar Allan Poe. The remark triggers a light moment for the group as the professor guides the discussion back to themes in Poe's work.
FBI operation Paperhanger shut down obscenity dealers from California to New York and Missouri to North Carolina. Crystal Photo Labs and Spectra Photo of North Syracuse were named as the nation’s largest adult film processors. Fifteen others were arrested, including a Oswego priest Rev. John F. Harrold, 37, charged with conspiracy and mailing obscenity, who served in Rome, Binghamton and Oswego and is under federal supervision with a supervised setting in the Southwest.
Jurors found Anthony Petrov guilty of conspiring to mail pornography and 10 counts of mailing child pornography. Petrov to appeal. Supervisors McGann Pinnell acquitted. Jurors described material as shocking and said Petrov bore final responsibility.
Democrats win House passage of a bill to force President Reagan to halt CIA sponsored aid to Nicaraguan rebels. The narrow 228-195 vote drew 18 Republicans with 210 Democrats, while 50 Democrats and 145 Republicans opposed. The measure now goes to the Senate as concerns grow over U.S. military presence in Central America.
In Colombia, a mass mudslide buried at least 130 workers at a bus stop outside a hydroelectric dam project 91 miles east of Bogota. Rescue teams in heavy rain recovered 15 bodies as fear rose that the toll could reach 150 with many workers still missing.
In Wayne County hamlet North Rose at 11 a.m. Ruth Young returned to her South Main Street home after a 750 person evacuation ended. She smelled no odor and sat on her porch, recounting the moment a warehouse fire at General Cold Storage touched off an explosion sending a black toxic smoke cloud over the town.
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