Teen tours USSR finds friends, calls for view of wider freedom
Benjamin Richards, 14, an Iowa eighth grader, returned from a three week U S S R Youth Diplomacy trip with a more patriotic view and an appreciation for Soviet efforts in health care and education. He toured Moscow Leningrad Yeravan and Helsinki with a 15 member group and filmed a PBS documentary. He says Soviets envy the United States but want more freedom and better mutual understanding.
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Kurt Rogahn
Benjamin Richards
Franklin
Moscow
Soviet Union
Richards
United States
Public Broadcasting System
U.S.S.R
U.S
Michael
Stone City
Lynette
White Oak Rd
Cedar Rapids
Ben
America
New York
Helsinki
Finland
Yeravan
International Children’s Art Museum
Leningrad
Russia
Pit bull finds home on edge of Fayette County town
The pit bull that bit a Cedar Rapids toddler is moved to a country stable near a small Fayette County town. Kenneth Blue of Cedar Rapids owns the dog now kept in a stall with a doghouse, chained and padlocked door. The dog remains licensed in Fayette County and will not be returned to Cedar Rapids or exposed to children.
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Cedar Rapids
Fayette County
Russell Anthony
Wadena
Kenneth Blue
Blue
Anthony
Animal Shelter
City Animal Control
Cedar Rapids spa operator urged to prove funds for Palestinian homeland plan
Iowa Attorney General requests Warren McCray document plans to buy about 60 000 acres of farmland in Eastern Iowa and relocate Palestinians from the Gaza Strip with foreign backing. Seven day deadline set. failure could trigger injunction halting land deals and Eden Health Spa operations. The request also probes funding, and the spa's $50 donation for handicapped access and its claim of tax deductibility.
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Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Warren McCray
Tim Benton
McCray
Eden
Benton
Des Moines
King Fahd
Saudi Arabia
Gaza Strip
Whitford Sister Killed in Sioux City Car Crash
Musetta Whitford, 83, died when her car sped through an intersection and struck the Doug Welte house in Sioux City. Her sister Lucille Whitford, 79, was in serious condition at Marian Health Center. Police cited witnesses who said the car accelerated instead of slowing.
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Sioux City
Musetta Whitford
Whitford
Lucille Whitford
Doug Welte
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Madison
San Juan
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