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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1978
Page
12
A Rio de Janeiro fireman saved a 16 year old girl who was perched on a fifth floor ledge while hundreds watched from below. It marked the second rescue of this kind in a year for St. Sebastiano Feliz da Silva Filho.
In minus 100 degree wind chills, Canadian scientists and troops retrieved a 200 roentgen radioactive piece from Cosmos 954’s crash site over McLeod Bay Eight on Great Slave Lake. The fragment was sealed in a 300-pound lead container and flown to Yellowknife then Edmonton for analysis.
Hard line Arab leaders adjourned their Algeria summit with no plan to derail Sadat's peace talks with Israel. They criticized Sadat as following an American Zionist plan while seeking an action front with a joint military command and arms program.
President Anwar Sadat greeted President Carter at the White House as they began secret Middle East peace negotiations at Camp David in Maryland.
FBI findings show Nesline advised two Carter associates, Nathan Landow and Smith Bagley, on an Atlantic City casino venture tied to Resorts International. No arrests yet as agents continue filing through seized papers from Nesline's Bethesda apartment.
In Managua troops and National Guardsmen battled Sandinista guerrillas in the downtown area on the eve of municipal elections. Witnesses reported gunfire, police searches, and arrests while helicopters patrolled and rebels claimed 40 guardsmen killed near Rivas. In Matagalpa authorities intensified crackdowns with mass arrests after protests linked to the Chamorro assassination sparked a nationwide strike.
Michael E. Bowers, 19, of 2555 24th Ave SE, was charged with accessory after the fact in connection with a burglary reported at the Western Sizzlin Steak House, 5070 Lindale Rd NE, on January 23.
Authorities arrest a former babysitter Paule Lewis 23 her half brother Dominique 19 and Cecil Wiggins 24 in New York city over the kidnapping of Calvin Klein's 11 year old daughter Marci Klein. FBI says $100000 ransom paid and nearly all recovered. They face first degree kidnapping charges.
Fashion designer Calvin Klein and his daughter Marci, 11, were freed after she had been held for nine hours in New York. Klein paid $100,000 in ransom to secure her release from kidnappers.
Vietnam formally protested the U.S. order to expel its U.N. ambassador and asked Secretary General Kurt Waldheim to intervene. Hanoi issued two statements condemning the expulsion as evidence the Carter administration is not sincere about normalizing relations.
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