Cedar Rapids schools face mixed desegregation progress
Desegregation at Tyler Elementary is ahead by a year while another Cedar Rapids area school nears violation of state minority enrollment guidelines.
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1977
Page
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Alfalfa Crops Could Match Corn and Soybean Earnings
Linn County Dairymen heard that alfalfa crops can generate as much money as corn or soybeans. The Farm Datebook with major countywide farm events is on page 13. The Iowa house debated water reserves but did not pass a moratorium on irrigation permits. Story on page 13.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Iowa
New State Appeals Court
Jones County
Linn County
Gazette
Iowa House
Women and men must work together says Betty Friedan
Betty Friedan told a Cornell audience that women must not abandon marriage or view sex as enemy. She argued men are essential to progress and that equality requires collaboration between the sexes.
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Betty Friedan
Cornell
Amazon
Rights Panel Backs City-Suburb Busing
The US Civil Rights Commission urges desegregation by busing city inner areas to suburbs. It faults government housing policy for perpetuating racial ghettos and calls Congress to fund voluntary metropolitan desegregation and HEW to enforce equal educational opportunity laws.
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Washington
Civil Rights Commission
Bipartisan Commission
Commission
Supreme Court
Congress
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Deficient Iowa Bridge Rail Linked to Bus Tragedy
U S report faults a Neola Iowa bridge guardrail as deficient and unsafe though repaired with the same rail type. N ts show 34 600 federally listed deficient bridges and July 1978 funding gaps. Senator Culver urges higher annual bridge funds and county allocations amid ongoing repairs.
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Washington
Iowa
National Transportation Safety Board
Neola
Iowa Department of Transportation
U.S. Department of Transportation
John C. Culver
Senate
Culver
Roots cited in Cincinnati hostage case
The lawyer for 42 year old Jesse Coulter says the Roots miniseries fueled his client’s 20 year rage to recover a son by taking eight people hostage at Catherine Booth home for unwed mothers in Cincinnati. Coulter and ex wife Rita Gibran were arraigned with bonds set at 1 million each after undercover detective tricked them into surrender.
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Cincinnati
Jesse Coulter
Eugene Smith
Catherine Booth
Coulter
Smith
Jesse
Chicken George
Rita Gibran
Vance pledges enduring U S support to Israel security
U S Secretary of State Cyrus Vance began a six nation Middle East mission in Israel pledging ongoing U S backing for Israel’s survival and security. He aims to press for peace talks with Arabs, discuss Palestinian state questions, arms reductions, and revival of the Geneva talks before year’s end.
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Allon
Israel
Vance
Yitzhak Rabin
Palestine Liberation Organization
Egypt
Lebanon
Jordan
Saudi Arabia
Syria
Washington
Carter
U.S
Weapons Costs Jump to 1976 High in Pentagon Report
The Pentagon reported a nearly 18.5 billion rise in the price of 45 major weapons systems from late September to late December 1976, bringing total development and production costs to 197.6 billion. Increases include F-16 fighters and Trident submarines, with cuts in an additional carrier and A-7E planes. The totals may shift as Carter reviews the Ford budget and programs face annual review.
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Washington
U.S
Pentagon
Defense Department
Carter Administration
Congress
Jewish Supervisor Targeted in Bus Rampage by Nazi-Sympathizer
Norman Bing, a supervisor at a New Rochelle moving firm, hid as Fred Cowan, an army-trained marksman who shouted for Bing, hunted him after Cowan was suspended for refusing to move a refrigerator. Police and federal agents held off Cowan for 10 hours before he killed five people and then shot himself. Bing, 31, said Cowan targeted him for being Jewish and Cowan had shown anti Jewish hostility through others. Cowan was due to return to work.
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New Rochelle
N.Y
Fred Cowan
Norman Bing
Bing
Cowan
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