Ray orders truck load limits raised to ease fuel moves
Gov. Robert Ray declares a 60 day emergency to raise truck weights to 80 000 pounds and length to 58 feet to keep fuel flowing. Terminals at Sioux City Milford Omaha Fort Dodge show product moving while Des Moines area sites stay picketed and some stores face shortages, with the National Guard prepared if violence arises.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Robert Ray
Ray
Iowa Highway Patrol
National Guard
Bay
David Oman
Iowa Energy Policy Council
Sioux City
Milford
Omaha
Fort Dodge
Williams Pipe Line Co
Oman
Williams
Waterloo
Iowa City
Dubuque
Carter Brezhnev to hold first face to face talks
TODAS Summit President Carter and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev are to meet in person for the first time today. A school board rejects a counter proposal from the suspended South Tama superintendent. Randall P. Bezanson is named vice president for finances at the University of Iowa. An operation to reattach a boy's severed arm at University Hospitals in Iowa City is reported successful.
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Carter
Leonid Brezhnev
South Tama
Board of Education
Randall P. Bezanson
University of Iowa
University Hospitals
Iowa City
Iowa Fireworks Laws Clarified For Cedar Rapids Buyers
A Page 9A explainer outlines which fireworks are legal in Iowa and explains buying restrictions including grocery store sales. It notes that legality depends on product type and state rules, with age limits and local ordinances impacting purchases.
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Iowa
Canoe Trip in Canada Featured in Saturday Gazette
Saturday readers learn what a Canadian canoe trip is like through an illustrated article in the Cedar Rapids Gazette. A 50 year class at Postville high school makes a presentation noted in the same Saturday edition.
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Canada
Cedar Rapids
Postville High School
Gazette
Index Through Life Promoted as Master of Fate and Weight
A playful meditation on aging links youth marks to fate and fitness goals with a concise, punchy line about mastery of destiny and weight while joking about bowling leadership in later life.
Rockwell Collins wins Coast Guard SRR avionics contract
Collins Government Avionics Division, Rockwell International, lands a 66 million dollar contract as systems integrator for the Coast Guard SRR helicopter. Aerospatiale in Grand Prairie is the prime, with 215 million for 90 helicopters. avionics cost ~ one third. Work in Cedar Rapids, with four major Collins contracts in six months.
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Collins Government
Rockwell International
U.S. Coast Guard
Aerospatiale Helicopter Corp
Grand Prairie
Texas
John Sangster
Government Avionics
Cedar Rapids
Collins
Rockwell-Collins Telecommunications Products
Air Force
Kennedy Calls Delegalize in Speech to Iowa Bar
Senator Edward M. Kennedy addressed about 800 lawyers at the Iowa State Bar Association banquet in Des Moines. He urged delegalization of America amid references to excessive laws and forms while a protest outside drew 250 demonstrators and a threat to his safety was received by The Gazette.
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America
Edward M. Kennedy
Mass
Kennedy
Gazette
House of Law
Malaysia to ship out Vietnamese refugees at sea
The Malaysian government plans to evict 76 000 Vietnamese boat people from its shores. Deputy Prime Minister Mohamad said the action will begin immediately in stages and will be supported by a new shoot on sight law. A regional co operation with Thailand and Indonesia aims to deter refugee landings while a joint naval patrol monitors the South China Sea. The move follows Western reluctance to accept more refugees and United States backing for resettlement conferences and funding.
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Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
Mahathir Mohamad
Home Affairs
Ghazali Shafie
South China Sea
Mohamad
Kennedy rallies draw Cedar Rapids crowd on First Avenue
Ted Kennedy did not appear at the Five Seasons Center Complex as about 250 demonstrators gathered on both sides of First Avenue East. The crowd carried signs supporting and opposing his pro choice stance and critiquing Sen. John Culver.
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Ted Kennedy
First Avenue East
Cedar Rapids
Sen
Kennedy
John Culver
Diona
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Clive
Todas
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Zsa Gabor
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Edward Kennedy
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Sociation
Rolland Grefe
Iowa State Bar Association
Stouffer’s Hotel
Five Seasons Center Complex
Massachusetts
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White House
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Indonesia
Hanoi
Vietnam
U.N
United States
International Committee of the Red Cross
Geneva
Switzerland
Southeast Asia
Hong Kong
Philippines
Indochina
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