12 Feb 1978
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1978
Page
1
In Eastern Iowa, a city meter maid in Anamosa faces broad discontent as she issues a high number of parking tickets. The note appears in a section titled Winter sports and Politics, with other regional items listed, including a revival of vocational agriculture in Central City.
The Family Focus section mentions an unusual course titled Love, of Course taught by a marriage counselor from Amana. It notes a timetable for wedding planning and references pages 1D 6D 13D and 14D for related features.
The Midwest faces a major rail restructuring as bankruptcies and potential mergers threaten service. Officials say private solutions are needed to curb redundancy across Iowa where 7000 miles of track include 4000 miles of branch lines feeding grain markets.
President Carter told Energy Secretary James Schlesinger to plan emergency coal transport to regions critically short of fuel for electric power. He warned further cutbacks may occur despite a possible settlement and said hardships will continue for weeks after the strike ends. States most affected include Ohio Tennessee Indiana and Pennsylvania with stockpiles down to two days as of February 4.
In Austria Anwar Sadat met Israeli opposition leader Shimon Peres and called their talks a new step toward peace. He then went to Romania to rally support, with fog delaying his jet to Constanta and causing a postponed welcome. He planned talks with Nicolae Ceausescu before heading to Paris.
A Pacific Western Airlines Boeing 737 overshot a Cranbrook runway in a snowstorm and disintegrated, killing 40 of 47 passengers and crew. Six survivors, including a flight attendant, escaped from the tail section and were hospitalized. a survivor described rescuing a crying girl amid the wreckage. The plane carried low grade radioactive material being shipped for medical use, but officials said it posed no danger.
In a formal Pravda policy statement the Soviet Union says it will not yield to American opponents of detente demanding major changes to the still developing U S Soviet strategic arms limit treaty. The lengthy commentary covers technical SALT issues and is the most detailed Soviet response since last year.
Ethiopian troops backed by air strikes push along the rail line from Melo toward Adigela in a bid to retake the Addis Ababa Djibouti railway and drive Somali forces from the Ogaden region, according to Western sources.
A winter storm watch is in effect for today and tonight with heavy snow possible. Temperatures will reach the upper 20s with tonight’s lows near 20. Skies stay cloudy and colder with a chance of snow on Monday.
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