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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1978
Page
12
Billy Carter in Louisville to film a Billy beer television spot while denying slumping sales tie to his brother President Carter's popularity. The five second ad portion was shot in a downtown restaurant with a TV crew and advertising officials.
CBS will not release the Bob Crane episode of Celebrity Cooks after his murder last week. Spokesman Jeff Erdel notes the show featured multiple death jokes and Crane discussed Hogan's Heroes and its characters. Crane was found dead in his Scottsdale apartment. no arrests have been made.
Eldridge Cleaver claims French President Valery Giscard d Estaing helped him stay in France under cover after fleeing the United States in 1968. Cleaver made the claim in a New York Magazine excerpt from his book Soul on Fire, reportedly met through the French underground.
Olivia Newton-John has postponed her 24 concert Japan tour after canceling in March to protest dolphin slaughter. A Japanese government representative assured steps are being taken to reduce the dolphin kill, and she tentatively plans concerts in October.
Memphis Mayor Wyeth Chandler says firefighters set hundreds of blazes and declares a state of emergency as 800 National Guardsmen patrol the city. Seven hours of talks failed to end the three day strike by Local 1784 amid curfew and restrictions.
Black raiders struck a white owned Rhodesian farm in eastern Rhodesia killing fourteen, including a woman and five of her children. Survivors said 20 to 25 gunmen herded workers to sheds and bayoneted nine men. Soldiers repelled the raid but casualties occurred before dawn.
About 21 000 San Francisco customers lost power for two hours after a transformer failure and a second substation explosion near Nob Hill. Most service returned by 1 46 a m but 2 600 customers in Fisherman s Wharf remained off. Western Montana and parts of Idaho Wyoming and South Dakota also reported outages from a regional transmission line lightning strike.
Arnott W.R. Bosshart of the Bonneville Power Administration said a lightning strike on a 500000 volt line linking four Snake River dams to the John Day substation caused outages in Montana Wyoming Idaho and South Dakota. A safety mechanism failed Sunday night and the cause is not yet clear. The strike occurred along the 130 mile line between Lower Monumental Dam and John Day Dam.
An AP NBC News poll of 1,600 adults finds 45 percent say President Carter is not tough enough with the Soviet Union, with 52 percent favoring U S military superiority and 3 to 1 backing a nuclear arms pact with the USSR though many doubt it will bolster national security.
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