16 Feb 1979
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1979
Page
1
The University of Iowa Hawkeyes take a commanding position atop the Big Ten basketball race, edging ahead of Ohio State as the season tightens. Page 1B.
A Grammy night summary notes Robin Barry and Maurice Gibb lead the Bee Gees to top awards while Billy Joel wins for Just the Way You Are and Barry Manilow earns a coveted prize. Other items previewed on pages 5A 4A and 4B include Linn County independence program, fire marshal letter on courthouse safety, Cedar Rapids OSHA fines, and a tax plan claim by state Democrats.
Firefighters demand a 4 percent raise while the city insists the session is not wage negotiations. Reads like a stalemate on Page 4A as both sides press for shifts in talks.
Saturday feature asks Cedar Rapid residents for the toughest word to spell and notes the library answer desk handles about 86 000 questions yearly. Also reports a Marion man’s fish story about Iowa trout fishing and trips to Alaska and Canada’s George River.
Clear tonight with a low between 15 and 25 below. Saturday becomes mostly cloudy with a chance of snow. Temperatures rebound to a high around 5 to 10 above. Winds will be light.
Iowa officials plan a federal waste solution to dispose of spent reactor fuel, enabling more nuclear plants. Maurice Van Nostrand leads the effort with Gov. Ray and the Carter administration, proposing contracts to add utility waste to federal weapons program waste, funded by a one time fee. The move could ease Iowa’s nuclear expansion and overcome a major regulatory hurdle. The Duane Arnold Energy Center near Palo currently stores spent fuel on site.
President Carter pledged to protect migrant workers' human rights during a three day trip to Mexico. He said U.S. immigration laws will be enforced fairly and humanely while Mexican President Lopez Portillo noted workers often feel compelled to sell themselves in the United States. The leaders spoke to a joint Mexican Congress and discussed trade energy and migration as ongoing challenges.
The United States grants full diplomatic recognition to the Khomeini government in Iran and withdraws recognition of the shah as head of state. Ambassador Sullivan will seek talks with Prime Minister Bazargan as Americans flee on chartered Pan American flights. The move drew U S criticism of Soviet broadcasts and occurred after Iran executed four former shah generals, including SAVAK chief Nassiri, at Khomeini's Tehran headquarters.
Benjamin Willie Love, 34, faces a murder in the first degree trial set for April 23 after a Linn County Grand Jury returned the indictment. He is charged in the Jan 23 Land H Lounge shooting that left Ernest Gibson dead after being on life support at Mercy Hospital.
In Wilmington Delaware a brick rowhouse fire killed seven people including a 66 year old homeowner Harry Alexander and his family of six. The victims named Stella Alexander Edward Debra Delores Debra Ann Edward and Kimberly. Alexander was hospitalized in critical condition after leaping from a second floor window. The fires occurred within 41 hours and a mile of each other as investigators probe possible connections.
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