Weather and births provide brief local notices
Weather notes report highs in the 50s and 60s with overnight lows in the 30s to 40s and a 13 mph NNW wind at 10 am. Extended forecast calls for mostly cloudy skies Wednesday through Friday with rain chances Friday. Birth notices list Mercy April 9 two newborns, Atkins and Mount Vernon, and Independence and St. Cloud births with parent names and addresses. several local addresses appear. Incident and service calls logged with times and locations across Sunday, including first aid, resuscitation, electrical issues, and under investigation requests.
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Mets
Miam
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Sioux Falls
Thresher captain believes he could have saved ship
Cmdr Raymond McCoole, who would have been the 130th crewman aboard the USS Thresher on its 1963 deep water test, says a leak and reactor shutdown doomed the submarine. He served on the Navy inquiry board and suggests diverting steam to the emergency engine might have prevented the fatal dive.
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Kittery
Maine
Thresher
Cmdr
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Navy
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
McCoole
Boston
Derry
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Carter to attend Bonn economic summit with world leaders
President Carter will attend a July 16 17 economic summit in Bonn with leaders from Canada France West Germany Italy Japan and Great Britain. The White House says the meeting will review the world economy and spur national and international efforts for healthier growth. Greenspan warns of recession and inflation if federal spending continues to rise and urges rapid restraint before Carters speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors.
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Washington
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Bonn
Canada
France
West Germany
Italy
Japan
Great Britain
White House
Helmut Schmidt
Alan Greenspan
Warning on drinking Laetrile linked to death
A Kaiser Permanente study in JAMA warns cancer patients that Laetrile can cause sudden cyanide poisoning and death. It cites a 17 year old girl who died after four weeks of liquid Laetrile treatment obtained at a Tijuana clinic.
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Chicago
UPI
Journal of the American Medical Association
Kaiser-Permanente Medical Center
Los Angeles
JAMA
Tijuana
Mexico
Postal Service Launches Consumer Protection Week
The Postal Service starts Consumer Protection Week to warn the public about mail order schemes and phony cures. UPI reports broad efforts to alert consumers about fraudulent real estate deals and other scams that defraud about one billion dollars yearly.
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Washington
Brown cites alternative NATO strategies to stop Soviet tank attack
Defense Secretary Harold Brown says neutron warhead is not the sole method to halt a Soviet tank advance in Europe. In a TV interview he notes other options and comments on President Carter's Friday delay of weapon production.
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Washington
Harold Brown
NATO
Europe
Brown
Carter
Nader Issues 90 Page Manual to Improve Newspapers
Ralph Nader releases a 90 page guide written with David Bollier to help readers evaluate newspaper coverage and internal policies. The manual urges consumer action and is available from the Disability Rights Center in Washington for institutions ten dollars and five dollars for individuals.
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Washington
Ralph Nader
Nader
David Bollier
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Disability Rights Center
Washington, D.C
Body of Baron Bracht Found After Kidnapping
The body of 63 year old Baron Charles Victor Bracht was recovered from a garbage dump in Oelegem near Antwerp. Police say he likely died about a month earlier after the March 7 kidnapping. An autopsy was set to determine murder or illness as the cause. Relatives note the baron had a heart condition and a caller directed authorities to the scene.
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Antwerp
Belgium
Charles Victor Bracht
Oelegem
Julien van Hoeylandt
Bracht
Theodore
Beirut clashes extend deadly sectarian violence in Lebanon
Christians and Moslems fought in southeast Beirut in a three hour battle that left four dead and nine wounded. The fighting marked the worst in eight months as Lebanon's civil conflict lingers amid fragile calm in the south where UN peacekeepers, Palestinians, and Israeli forces show signs of a pullback.
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Beirut
Lebanon
U.N
Israel
Rumors of Sea Raid Trigger Mass Coastal Hunt
Police and army units launched a large man hunt along the Mediterranean coast south of Tel Aviv after rumors of guerrillas landing from the sea and hijacking a car. No raiders were found by early today, as officials set up roadblocks and used helicopters to scour the area.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Mediterranean
Philippine military charges against hundreds of demonstrators
The military filed illegal assembly, incitement, and sedition charges against hundreds of protesters arrested in Manila. The action targets those accused of organized street demonstrations and calls for broader political change.
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Manila
Philippines
Philippine march protests alleged fraud after elections
President Ferdinand Marcos told a Cabinet meeting that charges of fraud are in line with a tougher policy since the elections. He ordered the release of six Roman Catholic nuns arrested during the march. Police estimated 553 arrests, while the military put the figure at 577. The march mourned "the death of freedom and democracy" in the Philippines.
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Ferdinand Marcos
Philippine Constabulary
Freedom and Democracy
Philippines
U S and Mexico cooperation reduces heroin supply
President Carter’s health adviser Dr Peter Bourne says joint efforts cut cross border heroin trafficking to seven year lows in the United States and the decline in trafficking correlates with about a 40 percent drop in heroin related deaths.
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Washington
UPI
U.S
United States
Carter
Peter Bourne
Transkei Declares Break With South Africa
Transkei, the black tribal enclave, has broken diplomatic relations with white-ruled South Africa, announced by Ambassador D H Potgieter after a Sunday Transkei Parliament session. South Africa said it had been notified. no immediate comment was issued. Transkei was the first homeland to gain independence under separate development policy.
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Umtata
Transkei
South Africa
D.H. Potgieter
Swedish doctors abort twin to save healthy brother
In Lund Sweden two doctors aborted one fetus to save the remaining fraternal twin. Tests on amniotic fluid showed the aborted fetus would have suffered a disease causing mental retardation. The normally developed twin was born early this year and is reported in good condition.
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Stockholm
Sweden
UPI
Anders Aberg
Felix Mitelman
Lund’s Hospital
Aberg
$2 Million Cash Robbery Tied to Rock Address
Golden Beach Florida police say two men Ralph Marr and John Paleo face armed robbery charges after a $2 million cash haul from the Ocean Boulevard home linked to Eric Clapton’s rock fame. The suspects fled, were chased by a Golden Beach officer, and jailed in Dade County with pistols and bags of cash recovered.
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Golden Beach
Fla
UPI
William Cobb
Ocean Blvd
Eric Clapton
Dade County Metro
Edward Hartman
Cobb
Ralph Marr
Richmond Hill
N.Y
John Paleo
Dade County
Hartman
Ocean Boulevard
George Smith
Broward County
IRS Audits Target Colorado Tax Strike Movement
The IRS Colorado office audits tax resisters individually amid a battle with the Denver based National Tax Strike Movement. Officials report more than 20 Colorado criminal cases and a 90 percent conviction rate, while movement leaders dispute federal authority and claim income tax illegality.
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API
Internal Revenue Service
Colorado
IRS
Gerald Marrs
Marrs
Larry Mott
National Tax Strike Association
Congress
United States and Soviet Union to start hunter killer satellite talks
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance announced in Washington that the United States and the Soviet Union will begin next month negotiations to ban hunter killer satellites and to limit sales of non nuclear arms. He also plans a Moscow trip this month to push a treaty on long range bombers and missiles. The remarks frame a stronger U S push on arms control with the Soviets. ON THIS DATE in 1606 Sir Walter Raleigh sold his stake in Jamestown Virginia.
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Washington
United States
Soviet Union
Cyrus Vance
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Vance
Moscow
U.S
Somali Leader Blames Soviets for Coup Attempt
Radio Somalia said the Soviet Union and Cuba backed a failed coup against President Mohammed Siad Barre by army officers and enlisted men. Barre announced loyal troops crushed the rebellion, pledged trials under Somali law, and urged vigilance against colonial agents. Western diplomats noted gunfire near Mogadishu and possible casualties.
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Nairobs
Kenya
Somalia
Soviet Union
Cuba
Mohammed Siad Barre
Ethiopia
Siad Barre
Ogaden
Mogadishu
Gazette Company Daily Cedar Rapids Publication Details
Established in 1883 by the Gazette Company and published daily and Sunday at 500 Third Ave SE Cedar Rapids Iowa 52406. Second class postage paid at Cedar Rapids. Subscription rates by carrier 115 per week By Mail After noon Editions and Sunday 7 issues 5174 weeks 56.00 52 weeks Other states and U S territories 80.00 52 weeks No mail subscriptions accepted in areas having Gazette carrier service The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all the local news printed in this newspaper as well as all AP news dispatches.
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