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The intersection of Routes 4 and l7 in Paramus is one of New Jersey's busiest, and soon it is going to get busier. Already clustered around it are the Garden State Plaza shopping mall and several office buildings, among them Paramus Plazas I and II, both built by Boroughs Development Corporation.
UNION CITY Because of his recent conviction on Federal bribery and conspiracy charges, William V. Musto has been stripped of his public positions as Mayor of this Hudson County municipality and State Senator from the 33d Legislative District. At least that is what everyone thinks. Events of recent weeks have shown that ''stripped'' may be too strong a word. At best, Mr. Musto has been forced to take one step backward from the limelight and public exercise of his two offices. He appears to have lost none of his political strength.
When people ask John Klein what he does at his home at 194-15 73d Avenue in Flushing, Queens, he tells them he farms. ''Then they laugh,'' he says, but it is true.
The Justice Department today approved the New York State Legislature's plans to reapportion Congressional, State Senate and Assembly districts in Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx. The department said the new lines, unlike those it rejected 14 days ago, did not discriminate against black and Hispanic voters. The approval of the plan allows the state's primary elections, rescheduled once because of the rejection last month, to go ahead on Sept. 23, according to legislative leaders. To overcome one of the major objections of the department, the legislative leaders created a second Congressional district in Brooklyn considered likely to elect a black Representative.
Fourth of July fireworks in Connecticut will be only slightly less glorious this year. The State Fire Marshal's office reports that 60 towns applied for fireworks permits this year, despite the cost of the displays, which can run as high as $10,000, plus a $1 million bond that must be posted with the State Insurance Commissioner. ''The numbers of permits were down by just a few from last year,'' said a spokesman from the records department. ''Ever since the regulations went into effect in 1954,'' said Sgt. John Guerin of the Fire Marshal's office, ''fireworks must be shot off by a licensed shooter, and additional Federal regulations limit their manufacture to 50 milligrams of explosives.''
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 30, 1982, covering July 4, 1982.
Asia
Paul McCartney
Willie Nelson
The Human League
Toto
1982Vladimir Boisa, Georgian basketball player[†]
Vladimir Boisa or Vladimer Boisa is a Georgian former professional basketball player. Since 2013 he is the vice-president of Georgian Basketball Federation.
1982Vladimir Gusev, Russian cyclist[†]
Vladimir Nikolayevich Gusev is a Russian former professional road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2004 and 2015 for the Team CSC, Discovery Channel, Astana, Team Katusha and Skydive Dubai–Al Ahli teams.
1982Jeff Lima, New Zealand rugby league player[†]
Jeff Lima is a former professional rugby league footballer who last played for the Canberra Raiders in the NRL. A New Zealand international representative prop, he previously played for the Wests Tigers, Melbourne Storm, South Sydney Rabbitohs, Wigan Warriors and the Catalans Dragons in the Super League, as well as France's Elite One Championship for the Saint-Gaudens Bears.
1982Michael "The Situation" Sorrentino, American model, author and television personality[†]
Michael Paul Sorrentino, also known as The Situation, is an American television personality. He appeared on all six seasons of the MTV reality show Jersey Shore from 2009 through 2012, and has since returned to the franchise with Jersey Shore: Family Vacation.
1982Three Iranian diplomats and a journalist are kidnapped in Lebanon by Phalange forces, and their fate remains unknown.[†]
Three Iranian diplomats as well as a reporter for Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) were abducted in Lebanon on 4 July 1982. None of them have been seen since. The missing individuals are Ahmad Motevaselian, military attaché for Iran's embassy in Beirut; Seyed Mohsen Mousavi, chargé d'affaires at the embassy; Taghi Rastegar Moghadam, an embassy employee; and Kazem Akhavan, IRNA photojournalist. Motevaselian was also an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) member in command of an Iranian expeditionary force in Lebanon.
1982Space Shuttle program: Columbia lands at Edwards Air Force Base at the end of the program's final test flight, STS-4. President Ronald Reagan declares the Space Shuttle to be operational.[†]
The Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished routine transportation for Earth-to-orbit crew and cargo from 1981 to 2011. Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS), taken from a 1969 plan for a system of reusable spacecraft where it was the only item funded for development, as a proposed nuclear shuttle in the plan was cancelled in 1972. It flew 135 missions and carried 355 astronauts from 16 countries, many on multiple trips.
In 1982, the world population was approximately 4,612,673,421 people[†]