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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1979
Page
3
A firefighter battles flames near Omak as crews report near containment of the state’s largest forest fire this year. The blaze has consumed about 6,500 acres of rangeland and timber across the region.
A federal judge halted Howard Virgil Lee Douglas's scheduled execution to study the case after a portion of his murder trial was held without public access. Separately a citizens panel resigned from a Three Mile Island inquiry after a data access dispute, and two former nuclear plant workers were indicted for sabotaging fuel rods worth 30 million dollars in Surry Virginia.
A Singapore owned chrome laden cargo ship Tong Nam broke in two and sank in 30 foot seas off the Durban coast. Six crew members were rescued by ships and helicopters while 32 crewmen remain missing and believed dead after the vessel split Tuesday night in gale force winds.
Four former security men were hanged for the murder linked to former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Mian Mohammed Abbas and Soofi Ghulam Mustafa were executed in Rawalpindi, Arshad Iqbal in Faisalabad, and Rana Iftikhar Ahmed in Lahore. Bhutto faced execution for ordering the ambush. he insisted on innocence.
Theodore Bundy, a law student known for Mother’s Day remarks, was found guilty of first degree murder in the Chi Omega killings of Lisa Levy and Margaret Bowman and attempted murders of Kathy Kleiner DeShields Karen Chandler and Cheryl Thomas. Prosecutors seek the death penalty. sentencing will follow after a sequestered jury.
U S ambassador to the Soviet Union Malcolm Toon endorses the SALT II treaty calling it verifiable and militarily sound. He notes initial doubts about intelligence posts in Iran but says briefings showed any violations would be detected. He remains in post pending Senate confirmation of his successor Thomas Watson. Helmut Sonnenfeldt urges Congress to back MX deployment and remove doubts over missile tech transfers. Joint Chiefs chair denies trading support for SALT II to a missile pledge.
The House approved a measure to cut Amtrak funding by about half of Carter's proposal, passing 397 to 18 and sending the bill to the Senate. A separate 214 to 197 preliminary vote rejected a one year moratorium on the plan to cut routes by 43 percent.
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