Cedar Rapids Church Leader Talks Role in Society
A black clergyman discusses the church's role in American society in a feature on page 4. The piece highlights faith and community impact within the era.
04 Apr 1978
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1978
Page
1
A black clergyman discusses the church's role in American society in a feature on page 4. The piece highlights faith and community impact within the era.
The excerpt notes financial trends abroad and local items such as a 50th anniversary, a shower, and upcoming features on arthritis, self discipline, and a big Olympic wrestler. Weather outlook and brief mentions fill the rest of the page.
A reflective line on nature’s fragility and the wish for sturdier creation. It laments natural limits and imagines a world built from unbreakable materials.
House Budget Committee Chairman Robert Giaimo proposes a $7.5 billion partial rollback of Social Security taxes for 1979 funded by a smaller federal income tax cut. The plan trims the health insurance tax rate and lowers the wage base from $22,900 to $18,900, reducing the maximum employee tax from $1,403.77 to $1,153.84, as part of a broader $19.4 billion tax cut.
Mark Hamill congratulates his co star C-3PO during a presentation at the Los Angeles Music Center on Monday night. The ceremony honored the film's sound achievements and related coverage and photo are on page 10.
Deputy Minister Andre Holland accuses President Carter of abandoning white minority interests to win Nigerian oil support. He questions Carter human rights pledges and links U S policy to Moscow influence while Rhodesia pursues an internal majority rule. Washington and London propose mediators to Salisbury as talks on a new power transition conference begin.
A House Senate conference panel adopted an emergency farm bill with flexible parity raising target prices for 1978 crops. The plan, backed by strikers, may push retail food costs 2 3 percent and costs to taxpayers range 1.2 to 2.5 billion dollars.
A Cypriot court found two Palestinians guilty of premeditated murder in the Feb 18 killing of Youssef el Sebaei, editor of Al Ahram. They were sentenced to death by hanging, with execution set for June 1, while appeals are planned. The case follows a 24 hour hostage drama aboard a Cypriot airliner and a deadly gun battle at Larnaca Airport.
Korean rice dealer Tongsun Park testified before the House Ethics Committee that he had no knowledge of a Korean language document naming campaign contributions for lawmakers. He said O'Neill never requested funds and Park did not give any money to the speaker. An English translation of the report was released during questioning.
Allied Glass Products sought to lease a 15,000 square foot building on urban renewal land near its Cedar Rapids site for Job Services of Iowa. The Iowa Natural Resources Council ruled the parcel lies in the Cedar River floodway, prohibiting any construction that would impede flood flow, marking a first under federal flood insurance regulations.
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