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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1979
Page
2
Late edition page listing show sections for sections including Bike 7A Deaths 3A Editorial 8-9A and Sports 1-9B with Farm 14-15C and Want ads 1-21D. It notes Marion 22A and Trend 1-8 16C. sections cover finance 10-14 8 and other features across D and E zones.
In Jamestown Tennessee an FBI agent shot and killed Billy Dean Anderson 44 after he raised a rifle at the agent near his mother's Pall Mall home. Anderson had been a top fugitive since January 21 1975 after escaping Morgan County jail in 1974 and implicated in a bank robbery. Authorities had pursued him for years in the Cumberland Mountains.
Kahlil Itani Lebanon's ambassador to the United States told 500 Attiyeh family members at Stouffer's Hotel that Lebanon can only be saved by Lebanese themselves. He called the past five years the most tragic in Lebanon's history and praised the Attiyeh clan for aiding refugees. The Attiyeh convention, drawing 800 descendants in North America with 500 in Cedar Rapids, ends Saturday after starting Thursday.
U S Mideast troubleshooter Robert Strauss landed in Riyadh carrying a letter from President Carter to King Khaled to brief Saudi leaders on Israel and Egypt talks on Palestinian autonomy. He earlier met King Hussein in Amman and described the session as an exchange of ideas without commitments.
Ayatollah Khalkhali, Iran's revolutionary court judge, called a report of an attack on Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's villa in Cuernavaca totally absurd. An aide to the shah, Mike Moore, dismissed it as ridiculous and false, while police and residents echoed denial of any incident.
Joanne McKenna president of the National Association of Arab Americans urges U S government to reflect Arab American interests in policy. She criticizes Egypt Israel peace moves and Camp David as insufficient and backs Palestinian self determination and PLO recognition. She spoke at Cedar Rapids Attiyeh convention and plans to address Palestinian lawmakers in San Jose.
Toru Matsumoto an American educated college instructor who taught English to Japanese over radio and authored several English language books died Sunday in Tokyo at age 65.
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