19 Oct 1981
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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1981
Page
1
Stronger than usual winds continue tonight from the southwest at 15 to 25 mph easing overnight. Partly cloudy skies with a mid-30s low. Tomorrow looks sunnier with 10 to 20 mph winds described as breezy, and a 20 percent chance of rain.
In Washington legal argument over whether documents written by John W Hinckley Jr were illegally taken from his cell at the Federal Correctional Institution in Butner North Carolina on July 24 and 27 Judge Barrington D Parker allowed partial disclosure of the papers contents while New York reports LaGuardia Airport traffic snarled for over two hours as striking air traffic controllers staged a stall in on airport roadways.
The winning number in New York's daily numbers game was 858 announced last night. A side line mentions inflation influences prices such as a $5.50 lunch offering plain or toasted.
The Nobel Prize in physics went to Kai Siegbahn Nicolaas Bloembergen and Arthur Schawlow for laser spectroscopy and high-resolution electron spectroscopy. In chemistry Roald Hoffmann and Kenichi Fukui shared the prize. Harvard and Stanford figures featured, with American dominance noted. Hoffmann hailed from Cornell with a Polish birthplace background.
White House officials and Senate leaders trimmed a proposed 13 billion dollar 1982 budget cut plan to 5 to 6 billion in new cuts and 7 to 8 billion in new revenues. They would focus cuts on discretionary and military spending, while excise taxes on cigarettes and liquor may rise. President Reagan acknowledged a slight recession when asked by a reporter before flying to meet France's Mitterrand.
President Reagan and France’s leader marked the Yorktown victory that ended the Revolutionary War. Reagan called the United States a beacon of freedom, saying the surrender affirmed self determination and warned tyrannies that freedom will prevail. The commemoration concluded six years of Bicentennial events across the nation.
Warsaw reports signaled by official Polish media on Wojciech Jaruzelski becoming Communist Party chief and prime minister while Solidarity warns coercive tactics will trigger conflict. Jaruzelski vows not to retreat as Solidarity calls halt to wildcat strikes amid food shortages. Soviet President Khrushchev—sorry, Brezhnev—congratulatory note framed as backing a rally at a pivotal historical moment.
Andreas Papandreou and the Panhellenic Socialist Movement win a strong majority in Greece promising to quit NATO close American bases and hold a referendum on continuing membership in the European Common Market. Premier George Rallis concedes defeat as vote totals show a radical shift in pro Western policy. Papandreou says a cabinet could be sworn quickly and pledges to implement the program amid security considerations.
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