21 Dec 1978
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1978
Page
1
In Cedar Rapids the Life Investors president states that a recent move is not a takeover. The article references other city and state items including a century-old Cedar Rapids mansion dining prospect and comments from senators Dick Clark and Roger Jepsen on China news.
Digest presents scattered notes from pages covering a long mystery about missing gold, a primer on eye care professions, a reflection on Mary and Joseph as timeless and real figures, historical origins in Turkey, a film review praising an orangutan, a band named The Sound of Country, and a retrospective on the 1978 Hall of Fame Bowl with Iowa State coach Earle Bruce.
Sherry Zahrt, aged 10, is honored for valor with her 13 year old brother Keith likely the proudest presence at the ceremony. The notes hint at civic questions about bureaucratic control, and Jerry Elsen plans a humorous piece about "an accident waiting to happen." Snow chances rise late tonight into Friday with lows in the 20s and highs in the 30s. TV infancy remark suggests frequent channel changes. Copyright.
A woman claiming three sticks of dynamite hijacked TWA Flight 541 with 87 aboard near St. Louis and demanded the release of Garrett Brock Trapnell. The DC 9 diverted to Marion Illinois where FBI negotiators spoke with her. authorities noted Trapnell’s prior hijacking and Marion prison escape history.
Guerrillas fired Katyusha rockets into Kiryat Shmona wounding seven and shaking the border town. Israeli artillery replied as five children were treated for shock after a building was hit. The attack followed Israeli air strikes on Palestinian camps and sparked cross-border retaliation fears.
Cornell College art students in Mount Vernon under Professor Neville Aston practice raku firing outdoors in winter. The yanami yunomi pots are cooled rapidly to create unique textures, some pieces moved from the kiln to a snowbank. Margie Harger of Lisbon assists, packing a pot in sawdust for slower cooling.
Two young hijackers forced Indira Gandhi release demand aboard a jet with 130 hostages. Toys revealed as pistols and a cricket ball. most passengers escaped via rear exit as negotiations continued. The hijackers surrendered near Lucknow after remaining six crew members kept hostage.
New acoustical evidence cited by House panels suggests four shots were fired at President Kennedy in Dallas in 1963, including one from the grassy knoll, challenging the Warren Commission finding of a single shooter and implying possible conspiracy. The claims, from Rep. Harold Sawyer and others, cite analysis of a police radio tape and note a 95 percent chance of four shots.
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