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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1977
Page
1
Fire chief says a detector purchased ten days earlier and still boxed might have saved six Buck Creek victims if installed. The blaze remains under investigation for its cause as investigators seek answers.
Giant wildfires continue to burn across California for two weeks with about 10,000 firefighters fighting the blazes. Authorities report no clear victory in sight as crews press onward against the advancing smoke and flames.
A former prisoner in Uganda claims President Idi Amin routinely orders mass executions and torture of inmates. He recalls Amin dancing after inspecting the graves of massacred soldiers, a vivid account linked to the regime's brutality.
Heavy rain lingered across the region with Cedar Rapids airport reporting 0.18 inches in 24 hours and 0.37 inches from 6 a.m. to noon Tuesday. Fort Dodge led the state with 2.65 inches. Sigourney 1.15 and Oelwein 0.45. Cedar Rapids totals neared four inches in five days as storms threatened more severe weather. Car dealers reported scattered hail damage to 700 vehicles at Bob Zimmerman Ford. owner Bob Zimmerman cautioned the damage may be less than feared.
New York Brooklyn District Attorney Eugene Gold released figures on 176 indicted of 1,004 arrested for the July 13-14 looting. He found only 8.5 percent on welfare and that 48 percent had full-time jobs. The data include a $372-a-week meat-cutter among defendants, a sailor from the USS Kansas, eight city or federal workers, and 11 percent students. Racial breakdown showed 73 percent black, 23 percent panics, 4 percent white. Only 12 of 145 looted stores were groceries. others included furniture, appliances, pharmacies, and jewelry. Gold argues looters were thieves, not driven by hunger or poverty.
Treasury Secretary Blumenthal urged the Senate finance committee to extend the crude oil windfall tax beyond 1981 and make rebates permanent. He advocated per capita credits to return net receipts, arguing the measure stabilizes policy and preserves consumer purchasing power amid energy concerns.
Tennessee prison warden Stoney Lane says he was deceived into allowing lie detector tests connected to Playboy magazine’s copyright story claiming James Earl Ray acted alone in the King assassination. Ray’s attorney calls the tests inaccurate while Playboy contends Ray lied about knowledge of others.
Congressional staff say a foreign operations agency has strong suspicions that up to 134 pounds of bomb-grade uranium could have been diverted, possibly to Israel, from a Pennsylvania plant in the 1960s. ERDA officials dispute the allegation, noting no diversion evidence and a 1965 investigation found no such theft.
Des Moines reports state conservation commission faces a possible court action to stop the mourning dove hunting season set to begin September 3. George Crossley of the Iowa Ornithologist Union and supporters plan to seek a lawyer’s guidance while noting funding challenges.
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance met in Jerusalem with Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and Prime Minister Menahem Begin to discuss shifts in U.S. policy toward including the Palestine Liberation Organization in Geneva peace talks. Israeli officials insisted they will not sit with the PLO under any conditions.
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