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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1978
Page
26
An Atlanta and St. Andrews Bay train derailed near Youngstown Florida on Sunday scattering cars and spilling chlorine gas. At least eight people were killed and nine more were in critical condition as residents, about 2,500 in number, evacuated the town.
Two youths walk Sunday amid tons of bagged and unbagged garbage along 61st Street near Fifth Avenue in Bay Ridge Brooklyn. Residents protest what they call city inaction after a February 6 snowstorm that halted sanitation pickups. the block has seen only one sweep since. The street normally receives four garbage collections weekly.
Thousands of visitors toured Richard Nixon’s seaside estate La Casa Pacifica in San Clemente but the former president remained unseen. Buses ferried 7 800 guests through the grounds for about 10 minutes amid guarded secrecy while a taped message claimed Nixon was drafting his memoirs and expected to publish in May.
A husband explains the Horn of Africa crisis between Ethiopia and Somalia to his wife. He outlines Soviet Cuban and Israeli roles, Eritrean independence, regional powers, and the risk to Western oil routes with Rhodesia as a looming aside. The piece blends history with personal dialogue and current geopolitics.
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