VFW State Convention Opens in Cedar Rapids
About 600 Iowa VFW members and auxiliary attend the 34th annual state convention in Cedar Rapids starting Thursday. Meetings are split between post 788 and Town House motel, with national representatives and a four day program including officer elections for 1975-76 and a downtown parade on Saturday.
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Iowa Veterans of Foreign Wars
VFW
Cedar Rapids
Second Avenue SE
Town House
Walter J. Starr
Dubuque
James Fleming
Oakland
W.C. Sherman
Fargo
N.D
Erma Rainwater
Reno
Nev
Keith W. Churchill
Judy Hamlin
John E. Watson
Cédar Rapids
Beluah Gaskill
Spm
Home Post
Ham
Moscow shelves Geneva Peace Conference on Middle East
The Soviet Union quietly delays plans for a Geneva Peace Conference and signals indefinite postponement. A Kremlin shift hinges on U S initiatives and reassessment of Middle East policy. Moscow signals step by step diplomacy may return under Kissinger while focusing on European security talks and new arms control ahead of Brezhnev's summit in the U S later this year.
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Muscow
Soviet Union
Geneva
Middle East
Washington
Moscow
Kremlin
Henry Kissinger
Kissinger
U.S
Vienna
Atuirei Gromyko
Leonid Brezhnev
Gromyko
Geneva Forum
Israel
Brezhnev
Interstate 380 Design Hearing Set Thursday
A public hearing on the proposed Interstate 380 design in Cedar Rapids will be Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the Veterans Memorial Coliseum armory. TA WA highway commission staff will explain the plan and answer questions with maps and drawings available for inspection.
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Cedar Rapids
Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Tawa Highway Commission
McCroud Run
Winds Central
Forty-second Street
Northern Mariana Islands vote to join United States as commonwealth
With incomplete returns, more than three quarters of voters in the Northern Mariana Islands favor political union with the United States. Observers spent two weeks overseeing the plebiscite as 16 000 residents on 14 islands weigh a path to U.S. citizenship and a commonwealth status. The pact signed in February awaits ratification by Congress in September.
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U.S
Northern Marianas
U.N. Trust Territory of the
Pacific Islands
Microtesia
Northern Mariana
Congress
Ford Favored to Beat Most Challengers in Poll
SAN FRANCISCO UPI The California Poll reports President Ford would beat any Democratic nominee if held now and would likely top third-party rivals in multiple scenarios. Only Senator Kennedy ties Ford in a three way race, with Reagan or Wallace second in various matchups.
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San Francisco
UPI
California
Ford
Edward Kennedy
Kennedy
Ronald Reagan
Reagan
Alabama
George Wallace
Wallace
Sen
Henry Jackson
Washington
Edmund Muskie
Maine
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Council of Administration
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Scott Warner
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Saipan, Mariana Islands
Northern
Mariana Islands
Pacific Archipelago
Western Pacific
Killians
Hies
Ularly
ISTEN
Syedboys
Ain Fom
Mion
Piack Cook
Jet
Second Ave. S.W
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