Perot Delivers Gifts Negotiations Face Delays in Hanoi
In Vientiane and Bangkok, H. Ross Perot's representatives met a North Vietnamese official at the Hanoi embassy to seek permission to fly two planes to Hanoi with Christmas gifts for about 1400 U.S. prisoners. No progress was reported as talks continue with cautious optimism.
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Laos
Texas
H. Ross Perot
Hanoi
U.S
Tom Meurer
Perot
Meurer
Red Cross
Bangkok
Vacations in rural Eastern Iowa visit farms and towns
Culver outlines a tourist itinerary for rural Eastern Iowa. Visitors join church dinners, 4-H meetings, and a safe barn, then tour a general Store, a creamery, and a rural electrification cooperative. They spend a day in a major city to see farm products processing, and attend a college campus cultural event for a full rural life picture.
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Culver
Iowa
Soviet Marshal Grechko Visits Afghanistan on Official Trip
Soviet Defense Minister Marshal Andrei Grechko flew to Afghanistan on an official visit, Tass news agency reported, marking a high level military diplomacy engagement amid ongoing Afghan affairs.
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Moscow
Andrei Grechko
Afghanistan
Tass
Iowa Man Charged With Bilking Elderly Victims
Gerald H. Timmer of Waterloo Iowa was jailed in Warrensburg Missouri on fraud and deceit charges linked to a scheme bilking elderly persons through fraudulent insurance. Police found records for non valid insurers in his auto and the records show he collected about 16000 in the last three months from seniors across Illinois Iowa Wisconsin Missouri and Kansas.
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Crestwood
Iowan
Warrensburg
Gerald H. Timmer
Waterloo
Iowa
Timmer
Oakbrook
Ill
Davenport
Black Hawk County
Illinois
Wisconsin
Missouri
Kansas
Iowan Professor’s Recording Honored by Saturday Review
University of Iowa professor James Dixon conducts the London Royal Philharmonic Orchestra on a new recording featuring two piano concertos by Wuorinen and Weber. The work earned a spot on Saturday Review’s year end list. Dixon plans a January follow up with three American works. Sixteen sentences.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
James Dixon
London Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Saturday Review Magazine
Composers Recording Inc
Dixon
Charles Wuorinen
Columbia University
New York
New England Conservatory of Music
Wuorinen
U. of S. Symphony Orchestra
U. of S. Center For New Music
Ben Weber
Saturday Review
Irving Kolodin
The
Royal Philharmonic
U. of I
Thomas J. Anderson
Nashville, Tenn
U. of I. Symphony Orchestra
Lady the lioness takes five hour walk near Castle Rock
A 170 pound lioness named Lady roamed a field for five hours before being found by her owner, Michael Jurich, near his Castle Rock home. The animal reportedly escaped after breaking her cage door during a wind storm Sunday night. Jurich had purchased her from a Denver dealer five months earlier.
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Castle Rock
Colo
Lady
Michael Jurich
Jurich
Denver
Man reflects on penitentiary life and reform hopes
Harold, released from Waupun after serving time, credits his wife Audrey and community support for his rehabilitation. He criticizes prison conditions, calls rehabilitation programs ineffective, and urges society to provide opportunities to prevent future turmoil and crime. He worked as a hospital janitor during his imprisonment and plans to build a new life with his daughter Urania.
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Audrey
Harold
St. Joseph’s Mercy Hospital
Waverly
Waupun
Werzburg
No Shining Nose Seminar Ends Without a Real Bid
In 1969 the University of Iowa calendar spoof claimed a Biochemistry Seminar on bioluminescence in the proboscis of Rangifer tarandus with a fictitious S Claus from U N P. Prof. Barker debunked the joke noting reindeers do not glow noses and such seminars run only in alternate years.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
Department of Biochemistry
S. Claus
Robert Barker
Biochemistry
University of Northern Pole
Barker
U. of S
Teen Dance at Recreation Center Saturday
A teen dance will run Saturday from 8 30 p m to midnight at the Recreation Center with the group Pages performing.
Help Wanted Ads Offer Local Buy Sell Trade Line
Want ads invite readers to contact 569-1234 to buy sell or trade items and services. No further details provided.
Gov Ray Christmas Message Emphasizes Peace and Charity
Governor Robert Ray’s holiday address urges love for God and neighbor, giving to the less fortunate, and the universal Christmas message of joy. He cites Bethlehem’s nativity as the source of goodwill shared across beliefs, nations, and ages.
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Gov. Ray
Des Moines
Gov
Robert Ray
University of Iowa Doctor Named Head of Stroke Facilities Panel
Dr. Adolph L. Sachs, neurology chair at the University of Iowa, was appointed general chairman of a new national Joint Committee for Stroke Facilities. The panel will set guidelines for stroke care across prevention, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation, and training. The program is funded by a contract to the American Neurological Association from HEW’s Regional Medical Programs Service. Sachs has led both the American Neurological Association and the American Academy of Neurology, among 23 participating groups.
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Iowa City
Adolph L. Sachs
Department of
University of Iowa
American Neurological Assn
Regional Medical Programs Service
U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
Sachs
American Academy of Neurology
Wartburg students become Paul Quinn College exchange trio
Three Wartburg College students Annette Jesse Pamela Bitter and James Melvin have been accepted as the first exchange students to Paul Quinn College in Waco Texas. They will start classes Feb 1 and study through the second semester. Paul Quinn with about 550 students is the oldest liberal arts college for
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Celwein Coed
Wartburg College
Paul Quinn College
Waco
Texas
Annette Jesse
Ocelwein
Pamela Bitter
el Cajon
Calif
James Melvin
Independence
Paul Quinn
Texas AME founded in 1872 linked to AME church
A historic Texas African Methodist Episcopal congregation traces its roots to 1872 and maintains affiliation with the AME church hierarchy.
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Texas
African Methodist Episcopal Church
Gift for Governor Moore raises eyebrows in West Virginia
A West Virginia state executive branch employee bought Gov Arch Moore a television set with three 14 inch screens to watch three channels at once prompting scrutiny and questions about gift etiquette and official allowances.
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Charleston
W. Va
UPI
Executive Branch
West Virginia
Arch Moore
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