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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1978
Page
2
Shiite militants attack a Pepsi Cola plant and Bahai homes in southern Iran. Death toll climbs to 65 with reports of more casualties elsewhere. Khomaini calls for national mourning and urges noncooperation with the shah.
AP reports suits against the government over swine flu inoculations must be filed by Saturday. Since last month plaintiffs claim $1 billion with HEW and total claims exceed $3.5 billion from about 3,300 people. Lettuce prices rise to $2 a head as harvests impact markets. Officials warn budworm control failures may lift consumer prices.
Los Angeles reports pesticide resistant bud worms may chomp through half the winter crop outlook. Officials warn growers to monitor fields closely as infestation risk rises during cooler months.
Prime Minister James Callaghan won a 10 vote margin in a confidence motion as Conservative opponents failed to topple his minority Labor government. Scottish and Welsh nationalists and Ulster Unionists supported the government to avoid mandatory winter elections.
Port Authority police say fingerprints on a black getaway van and several good leads push investigators to catch the five men who robbed Kennedy airport of seven million dollars in cash. Local and federal detectives cooperate in the largest cash robbery in U.S. history.
The 13 nation OPEC group opens its annual winter pricing meeting in Abu Dhabi and plans a 5 to 10 percent base price increase for crude oil. The move aims to restore oil revenue lost to inflation and may add half a cent to one cent per gallon at U S gas pumps.
A freight train struck a truck carrying liquid ammonia along state highway 3127 near Boutte Louisiana. Three people died from exposure and 25 were injured while 300 residents evacuated. Firefighters using gas masks cooled fumes and authorities reopened U.S. Highway 90 by midmorning.
In Turin two police officers on patrol near the New Prison were slain by submachine gunfire as an urban guerrilla squad struck. A bank president Franco Pilla was wounded in Mulise del Piave near Venice, with two masked gunmen fleeing by car. The group claimed responsibility in a local newspaper.
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