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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1978
Page
2
Syrian tanks and artillery pounded Beirut for a third day in a crackdown on Christian militias. Police and hospital sources reported over 100 killed and 300 wounded among Christians as fighting surged in the capital.
China halted all aid to Vietnam and recalled technicians citing Hanoi's anti China actions. In Ho Chi Minh City about 250000 Chinese residents sought to board Chinese ships homeward though Vietnamese officials later indicated many would withdraw applications. The report notes broader tensions over minority treatment, Cambodia border war, and Soviet influence, amid Pravda’s statement of Moscow support.
A stream of birth notices lists parents and locales including Cedar Rapids Marion Palo Mount Vernon Amana and Fairfax. Entries name numerous couples with city highlights and newborns from July 2 and surrounding days.
Noel Golding 31 of Mount Kisco New York faces criminally negligent homicide charges in the death of Audrey Gibson 23 of Montego Bay Jamaica. The body was found in a suitcase aboard American Airlines flight 645 at Kennedy Airport. Golding allegedly claimed the person was his brother in law he was smuggling into the United States.
Proposition 13 lowers property taxes by more than half amounting to about 7 billion dollars. Lawmakers consider pass-back bills and a constitutional amendment to require landlords share savings with tenants. Betty Gwiardon of the California Apartment Association warns against statewide rent control.
Rep. Les Aspin argues the armed forces should recruit more individuals with low IQs. He notes services are admitting less than half of planned low IQ recruits since the all volunteer force began and warns that assigning low-skill jobs to reasonably intelligent personnel harms morale and raises discontent.
NAACP leaders announce a hastily called meeting of black lawyers and educators from across the country to discuss the Supreme Court Bakke decision. Benjamin Hooks says telegraphs are going out calling professionals to a special convention in St Louis or Detroit.
Police strike in New Bern North Carolina as 35 officers quit for higher pay. City officials plan to advertise for replacements while Craven County deputies and state police patrol the town over the weekend with no major crimes or arrests reported.
In Tokyo, opponents of Narita Airport hurled battle grenades at a police sentry near the new facility. The police box caught fire but all five officers inside escaped injury. The incident followed a deadly ETA attack in Bilbao and an earlier bar assault in St. Jean de Luz.
U S Ambassador Malcolm Toon met with Soviet Foreign Minister Anrei Gromyko in Moscow to discuss issues of bilateral Soviet American relations. A U S Embassy spokesman declined to specify topics or reasons for the meeting.
In the French Basque region near the Spain border, a former Basque separatist commando leader was critically wounded by shots fired from a moving car. Police said more than 20 bullets were fired. his wife was killed in the attack. The incident occurred early today, with details released by Iran police and reported from Iran and Spain.
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