Carter Fears Kennedy Iowa Push Hardens Campaign
President Carter deploys about 30 White House aides to Iowa to boost his faltering campaign as Kennedy builds strong local organization there. Officials say Kennedy out-organizes and money buys better staff, while Carter faces grain embargo fallout and limited campaign travel amid Iran hostage and Afghanistan crises.
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Washington
Carter
White House
Iowa
Wedneday
Edward M. Kennedy
Kennedy
Newton man faces charges in rural death of 14 month old
Ronald McGee, 20, of Newton waived preliminary hearing after the death Tuesday of 14 month old Corrie Comstock. He is charged with assault and was caring for the child when she died at a Newton hospital. He is held on $20,000 bond in Jasper County jail. ON THIS DATE in 1806, the first baby was born in the White House.
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Newton
Ronald McGee
McGee
Corrie Comstock
Jasper County
White House
Thomas and
Martha Randolph
Thomas Jefferson
Four more arrests in Marshalltown kidnapping case
Marshall County sheriff's officers add four Plainfield men to the investigation into the weekend kidnapping and rape of a woman from out of state. Suspects Tom Seversike Lynn Rozer Mark Brilling and Jon Tjevkes face charges including kidnapping and sexual abuse with bonds ranging from 25 000 to 50 000.
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Marshall County Sheriff's
Plainfield
Sheriff's Department
Tom Seversike
Lynn Rozer
Mark Brilling
Jon Tjevkes
Seversike
Rozer
Brilling
Tjevkes
Rhodes
Trevkes
Lonnie Mullihan
State Center
Timothy Smith
Larry Millson
Gary Evans
Evidence enters in Moses murder trial in Waterloo
In Black Hawk County the state introduces evidence from Deborah Lane's home on day three of Michael Moses murder trial. A butcher knife is identified as the weapon. Scott Lane testifies he knew the Moses family well. Moses pleads guilty by insanity to the Kniss murder. Kniss body found south of Waterloo and authorities say she was strangled and run over by a car. This trial marks Iowa's first in court with cameras under a one year experiment.
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Waterloo
Deborah Lane
Michael Moses
Black Hawk County
Moses
Lane
Kniss
Iowa Supreme Court
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