Cedar Rapids Library Struggles Prompt Public Concern
The League of Women Voters cites per capita library spending in Iowa’s five largest cities to highlight Cedar Rapids faltering support. Cedar Rapids spends 4.35 local dollars per capita, lags behind peers, and relies on federal revenue sharing. The city council shows middling urgency despite recent $105,000 federal-revenue sharing aid. President-elect Carter vows to re-evaluate federal library aid.
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Cedar Rapids Public Library
League of Women Voters
Iowa
Sioux City
Des Moines
Davenport
Waterloo
Cedar Rapids
Friends of the Public Library
City Hall
Carter
Readers favor sensational over cheerful news in year-end poll
Indianapolis News readers and editors agree on top stories of 1976. Election and Washington sex scandals are ranked highest by both groups, with Legionnaires disease and the Chowchilla bus kidnapping also near the top, while global events and lighter news lag.
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Indianapolis News Combine
CIA
FBI
Mao Tsetung
Chou En-lai
Chowchilla
Calif
Washington
Lebanon
Patty Hearst
Baker’s Senate leadership reshapes Republican image
Washington-That was a curious thing that happened in the senate Tuesday. By electing Howard Baker of Tennessee as their new leader, Republican senators behaved unlike either Republicans or senators. They followed the politically mature course. The way politics is played in congress, by both parties, the usual thing is to ignore broad national considerations in favor of the narrowest institutional factors. The sanctity of the system, on the Hill takes precedence over anything as crass as the health of the national party. Thus, the Democrats chose Robert Byrd to be majority leader rather than Hubert Humphrey because he had "earned" the place by his services there, and that was more important than whether he reflected national Democratic thinking.
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Washington
Senate
Howard Baker
Tennessee
Congress
Robert Byrd
Hubert Humphrey
Carter Faces Stark Choices on Southern Africa
Anthony Lewis analyzes U S options as clashes in southern Africa threaten to escalate. The piece notes Rhodesia’s fragile white minority rule and rising tensions likely to affect American interests abroad and at home, arguing detachment is unrealistic.
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Africa
U.S
Carter
Cyrus Vance
Rhodesia
Vietnam
Angola
Tea turn on not seen coffee price rise noted
A column notes coffee wholesale prices rose 218 percent since 1975 and consumer costs up about 20 cents a pound while tea consumption stayed steady at eight pounds per person annually. It ties high tea and cocoa prices to supply declines and discusses Rhodesia and South Africa policy implications for the Carter administration.
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National Coffee Assn
Brazil
United States
U.S. Department of Agriculture
USDA
London
Community diary and public concerns mix in Cedar county letters
A reader laments Cedar County supervisors rezoning land north of Rochester cemetery for housing. They urge preservation of a vital prairie, urge informed decisions, and accuse officials of ignoring environmental voices. The letter advocates protecting the cemetery and natural areas for future generations.
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Cedar County Board of Supervisors
Rochester Cemetery
Midwest
Cedar County Board
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