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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1982
Page
1
WARSAW Poland UP I reports military pressure yielding calm in Nowa Huta near Lenin Steel Mill amid warnings of protests at Bogdan Wlosik funeral. Police ring the town while Krakow suburb and Warsaw factories report no strikes or walkouts.
Part-time teachers at Nassau Community College and county officials announce a tentative three year contract ending an eight day strike. 700 adjuncts are represented by the Adjunct Faculty Association. A ratification vote is scheduled this afternoon at the Continuing Education Center. Classes to resume after approval.
Labor leaders and AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland appealed to rank-and-file workers arriving at plant gates to vote in mass numbers on November 2. They urged a get-out-the-vote effort to protest President Reagan's policies blamed for 10.1 percent unemployment. Kirkland met blue-collar workers at the Koppers Co piston plant in Baltimore and dismissed optimistic official unemployment signals.
A state Transportation Department worker found the decomposed body of a white male in a U-turn area on Interstate 87 in Warren County. The body was sent to Albany Medical Center Hospital for an autopsy. Police treat the case as a homicide with no identity clues and note the area is off-limits to motorists.
Morgan Hill park rangers led about 60 nature lovers on a Coe State Park trek to spot tarantula burrows as fall brings mild interest in brown hairy spiders. A few spiders were displayed in the ranger headquarters terrarium, and officials noted their venom is not toxic to humans.
In Florence Arizona Robert Vickers was again sentenced to death for first degree murder. During the proceedings he fixated on courtroom clerk Gina McVicker, asking the judge when she would send a picture. Earlier trials saw him fall for another clerk nicknamed Legs.
Illinois Attorney General Tyrone Fahner heads a task force labeling James W. Lewis and his wife Leann as prime suspects in seven Chicago area Tylenol cyanide deaths. Investigators study a security photo near a victim, while Fahner notes Lewis’s many aliases and prior charges. FBI analyzes fingerprints to compare with those found on poisoned capsules.
Dudley officials voted to ban trick or treating citing Chicago area Tylenol poisonings and tampering cases. Selectman Anthony DiDonato led the measure, backed by Donald Cristina, who said the move may be advisory but would curb risk. A village Halloween party will be held in a school hall as an alternative.
Forecast calls for fair skies tonight with lows around 45 to 50. Tomorrow turns cloudy and windy with a mid 60s high. Widespread rain and snow sweep the nation with light snow across the north central states and upper Plains, showers in the Southeast, thunder showers in the Great Lakes region, and mixed precipitation from Texas to the Ohio Valley. Additional rain and snow are forecast in the Northwest and Pacific Coast regions, with generally fair conditions elsewhere. Air quality is listed as good with an Air Pollution Index of 28 and humidity near 73 percent yesterday and 78 percent today.
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