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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1978
Page
2
Extended forecast shows a chance of rain Saturday with clear weather Sunday and Monday. Temperatures highs mid 50s to mid 60s and lows mid 30s to mid 40s. Winds NW at 17 mph with gusts to 23 mph. Sun times and year over year precipitation noted. Birth notices record Mercy and St. Luke's births with multiple families and addresses. Meager emergency calls list incidents including a megal burning and ambulance assist with timings.
Robert Ball former Social Security commissioner for 11 years until 1972 cautioned Congress against undoing recent tax increases. He said the 1977 amendments greatly improved financing and benefits and warned that rolling back taxes could hurt the system’s stability for decades. He noted high income workers misjudge future pensions and urged not to legislate this year.
The Trib, New York’s newly launched paper, shuts down after publisher Leonard Saffir cannot provide a 23000 dollar certified check for the printing bill. staffers hoped a strike at rival papers would boost readership.
House Budget Committee backs 115.6 billion defense outlay for the year starting Oct 1. The Senate panel approves 116.6 billion after debate. President Carter had proposed 117.8 billion as the defense budget. Differences arise mainly from accounting and estimates.
A federal judge sentenced three former Houston police to one year in prison and five years probation for civil rights violations in the drowning death of prisoner Joe Campos Torres. The Justice Department says it has filed papers urging ten-year terms for each defendant. The House Ethics Committee plans more hearings next week in its South Korea influence-buying probe, with Special Counsel Leon Jaworski indicating current lawmakers could testify. A former aide testified she gave $10,000 in cash from Tongsun Park for Nick Galifianakis 1972 Senate campaign from her home dresser. Conflicting testimony questioned whether a middleman received $5,000 from Park for Rep. John Breaux.
About 350 wounded veterans protesting CIA bugging of Park office blocked by 250 riot police near the U S Embassy after a rally at the veterans welfare building. Leaders promise to deliver a protest letter to Ambassador Sneider. veterans dispersed peacefully. Brezhnev, 71, remains in command in Moscow with health issues but is seen as able to attend a U S Soviet summit.
UPI reports that Leonid Brezhnev remains in fair health despite medical issues including irregular heartbeats. The update notes no immediate danger and describes ongoing supervision by doctors.
Ziegler recalls Nixon apologizing after grabbing him by the shoulders and pushing journalists aside at the New Orleans VFW convention on August 20 1973. He described the incident witnessed by staff and cameras and said Nixon later apologized aboard Air Force One.
Italian police raided a beach villa near Naples during the Aldo Moro kidnapping hunt and arrested four leftist suspects. The villa held arms ammunition and leftist literature as investigators probe links to the Red Brigades.
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Defense Secretary Harold Brown urged Congress to end the three year embargo on arms to Turkey to bolster NATO defenses in the Mediterranean and rebuild trust with Ankara. They stressed the move does not alter U S policy on the Cyprus dispute and cited Turkey's weakened military posture under the embargo as a risk to NATO's southeastern flank.
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