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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1976
Page
3
The fragment lists Friday night TV and radio slots with multiple channels and programs. Entries include game shows, films, and movie titles such as Treasure Hunt, Robotic Monster, and Love Later. Numerous call signs, times, and program notes appear garbled.
Former California governor Ronald Reagan told Pennsylvania delegates he wants a Reagan Carter debate to contrast records and attack big government. He praised his Georgia governor record and challenged Carter's platform costs, saying the Democrats must price their program while Ford delegates shifted. An AP survey showed Ford leading with 1,032 of 1,130 needed, Reagan at 24 with 172 uncommitted, as Connecticut and Utah scheduled votes.
Washington AP report says more indictments will be filed next week against pressmen in the Washington Post press room following a bitter strike. A federal grand jury indicted seven former Post pressmen on rioting and destruction of property charges. All seven are Local 6 members of the Newspaper and Graphic Communications Union, as the strike continues and replacements are used. The indictments follow guilty pleas by other pressmen and testimony before the grand jury. Joby Calhoun of South Carolina is noted as the first U.S. vice-president to be born a U.S. citizen and the first to resign the office.
SWINDON England UPI Frederick Hawksworth 92 former chief mechanical engineer of the Great Western Railway from 1947 to 1948 dies. He joined GWR in 1897 and drafted Britain's first Pacific locomotive The Great Bear in 1908. He supervised 1927 King locomotives seen as pinnacle steam design.
In Amsterdam Andrei Amalrik, a Soviet dissident historian, began his West exile with a news conference outlining mixed feelings about exile. He criticized Western tolerance toward the USSR and called detente a cunning policy used by Soviet leaders to keep things quiet.
West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt warned at the National Press Club that a unilateral U S pullout from Europe would destabilize the balance of power. He urged coordinated Western alliance policy and said Germany will seek international responsibility. He stressed no reversal of selling Brazil nuclear fuel cycle equipment, linking it to Brazil’s nonproliferation duties.
The D C Court of Appeals barred Claude Wild, former Gulf Oil vice president, from practicing law for one year for admitting he helped channel 100000 in illegal corporate campaign contributions to Richard Nixon's 1972 reelection. The court cited misrepresentation of Gulf shareholders and public deceit to hide the political gift. Wild pleaded guilty in 1974 to a misdemeanor for illegal corporate contributions and received a maximum 1000 fine but a term from Chief Judge George Hart.
On this date in 1971 the Nationalist Chinese Government of Taiwan expressed dismay at the announcement that President Richard Nixon would visit Communist China, signaling a major shift in diplomatic posture and regional tensions.
Linn, Cedar Rapids area court records show Velco fined 300 for second offense drunk driving. Baker got suspended sentence up to a year in reformatory for second offense DUI. Uclane R. Rocarcok to up to ten years for breaking and entering. Leon L. Nogele four months in county jail with 60 days suspended and probation for larceny. Ehrenberger suspended up to ten years in reformatory and probation on reduced robbery. Gantz pair deferred sentences to erase charges by good behavior for two years. Two Central City residents charged with possession of a stolen pickle bruck from a Waterlim dealer.
Testimony at the Wills and Emily Harris trial describes the Symbionese Liberation Army’s bank robbery of the Hibernia bank in San Francisco to finance a guerilla war against the United States. Witness Thomas Mathews recounts William Harris’s claim the group needed funds for their stated revolutionary aims.
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