Lebanese President defies resignation demand as army takes control
In Beirut President Su leiman Franjieh rejects a resignation order amid a military takeover by Brig Aziz Ahdab. Downtown, clashes kill at least two. Mutineers seize another garrison near Beirut and strike Sidon as Ahdab proclaims provisional rule with 4,000 troops backing him. Franjieh fortified by presidential guard and loyal units.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Suleiman Franjieh
Sidon
Aziz Ahdab
Hanna
Ahdab
Franjieh
Rapids couple wed in weather report style notice
C R Weather daily record lists marriage licenses for George Crawford and Sharon Ashland of Rapids. Birth notices include several March births to Neu meyer Walker Zach Jackson Dillon Stephenson Wright and Moser in Bloomington. Local speeding and traffic fines follow with names and amounts. intoxication fines listed for John A Phillips and Edward Jurewitz.
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George Crawford
Sharon Ashland
Rapids
Regents Offer 3 Million In Bonds For ISU Dorms
Iowa Regents move to sell 3 million dollars in tax free dormitory bonds to finance construction of 32 four plex units plus 32 more, including 25 singles and seven fourplexes for married students. Critics from Revolutionary Students Brigade claim the bonds favor capitalist interests and complain about living conditions at Iowa State University.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DES Moines
State Board of Regents
Revolutionary Students Brigade
RSB
Iowa State University
University of Iowa
Iowa City
Dem
Roberto Rey
Ames
ISU
Rey
Deaths across Iowa list multiple obituaries and services
Death notices honor George C Mulholland Jr 66 Fresno California Wayne Yardley 64 Cedar Rapids Arthur Plane Luann Van Patten 103 What Cheer Emma Saboe 88 Bessie Goodspeed 82 Lena Kloster 88 Henry Bod dicker 85 Leonard Gaffney 57 Dale Allen 64 Lillian En Sues 81 and other memorials with church services burial locations and military rites in Cedar Rapids What Cheer West Union Winthrop and surrounding communities noting cemeteries and funeral homes including Teahen Murdoch’s Fellmer’s and Burnham and Wood’s.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waukon
Casper Haugen
Old East Paint Creek
Martin Brothers
Independence
Arthur S. Plane
Mason Hawe's
What Cheer
Luann van Patten
Rock Island
What Cheer Christian Church
Springfield Cemetery
Harden’s. Toddville
Clarence Waterbury
Church of Christ
Dunkard
Todd
Marshalltown
Elberon
Pursel-Davis
National Cemetery
Vining
Manchester
Anna Witt
Shelly's
West Union
Emma Saboe
St. Olaf Lutheran Church
Burnham and
Wood’s
Bessie Goodspeed
Wood's
Lena Kloster
Newhall
Henry J. Boddicker
St. Paul’s Catholic Church
Fellmer’s
Keystone
Winthrop
Leonard Gaffney
St. Patrick’s Catholic Church
West Branch
Dale Allen
St. Bernadette’s Catholic Church
Barker's
Rock Island Receives Six Month Extension for Reorganization Plan
A federal judge granted Rock Island Railroad a six month extension to file a financial reorganization plan detailing how debts will be paid. In 1971 Turkey’s conservative government fell after an army ultimatum to quit or face a military takeover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Rock Island Railroad
Turkey
Air Force plan targets two Iowa bases for job cuts
The Air Force proposes to close 25 military and 2 civilian positions at Des Moines and 26 military and 4 civilian posts at Sioux City as part of a nationwide program to cut 10,100 jobs and save 150 million dollars yearly. Environmental impact statements and hearings will delay changes four to six months. Officials expect most airmen and many civilians will be reassigned.
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Washington
UPI
Air Force
Iowa
Des Moines
UNI Approved Housing Plan for Married Students in Iowa
The Iowa board of regents approved a 31500 contract with Stenson Warf and Grimes to develop a master plan for 300 married student housing units at UNI. UNI currently has 425 units and 99 trailers. ISU Foundation seeks zoning for 25 acres southwest of ISU to build about 440 residences, despite local opposition.
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DES Moines
UPI
Iowa Board of Regents
University of Northern Iowa
Stenson, Warf and Grimes
Waterloo
UNI
Iowa State University
Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc
ISU
University
Ames
Don Pager
Services Set For Crash Victim Gilbert Green
Funeral services will be held in Cascade for Gilbert D. Green 34 of Winthrop who died after a pickup crash three miles north of Prairieburg. He was Vietnam veteran, American Legion member, married to Mary Lindauer, and worked as a Cargill supervisor. He leaves four sons, parents, siblings, and other relatives. services Saturday at St. Martin's Catholic Church.
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Terry
Tony
Albert Green
Cascade
Robert Miller
Hazel Green
Wis
Ed Ciha
Cedar Rapids
Phillip Chiem
Paul
Carl
William
St. Martin's Catholic Church
Till-Didesch’s
Hearst bombing claims disrupt Hearst family at Hearst Castle
The New World Liberation Front claimed the Hearst bombing at Wyntoon near Lake Shasta as authorities warn of further terror. Patty Hearst, sick with flu, rests in jail ahead of a bank robbery trial while a federal task force probes Bay Area bombings among a surge of terrorist attacks.
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Hearst Castle
San Simeon
Calif
NWLF
Patty Hearst
Kpix-Tv
San Francisco
New World Liberation Front
Hearst Corp
Wyntoon
Lake Shasta
San Francisco Bay Area
Weather Underground
Red Guerilla Family
Emiliano Zapata
Tot Lots See Admission Fee and Fewer Sites Next Summer
Cedar Rapids will run the tot lot program next summer in 24 locations instead of 30, with a $5 registration fee for eight weeks. The plan also cuts elementary supervised playgrounds from 36 to 24, limits winter supervision to three parks, and faces possible pool closures and program eliminations to meet budget guidelines.
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Cedar Rapids
Saroyan Play at Coe College Friday Night
A New York acting troupe famous for Theater in America airs Saroyan’s The Time of Our Lives. They perform Friday at 8 p.m. in Sinclair auditorium Coe College. Tickets cost 6 and 4.50 dollars and are still available.
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Public
Theater In America
Coe College
Sinclair Auditorium
John Houseman
William Saroyan
Dale Allen Dies Active in Scout Work
Dale Allen 64 lifelong West Branch resident and former meat cutter died at home Thursday. He married Catharine Kost on February 2 1937 in Iowa City. He was active in Explorer and Boy Scout work in West Branch. Survived by wife two sisters three brothers ten grandchildren and four children Rose McCoy Dale Fred Michael and Dean. Services Monday at 10 at St Bernadette Catholic church.
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T. Wayne Yardley
Fourth Street
Sullivan County
Cedar Rapids
Hazel Mottinger
CB Radio Club
City Water Pollution Control Department
Berry Jean Runer
Kansas City
Kan
Truman
Lorma
Leo
Guttenberg
Emel
Calif
Walter Kaegbein
Teahen
Horst Hehr
St. Luke’s Hospital
Cedar Memorial Cemetery
Teahen Funeral
West Branch
Dale Allen
Catharine Kost
Iowa City
Allen
Rose McCoy
Walcott
Dale
Fort Meade
Fred
Legrand
Dre
Michael
Marion
Hill Fails in Bid To Halt Long Trucks
Des Moines Iowa Senator Eugene Hill fails to pull a 65 foot twin trailer truck ban from committee and halt long trucks on Iowa highways after the senate rules and administration committee rejects moving the resolution to the floor.
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Hill
Des Moines
Eugene Hill
Newton
Iowa
Senate Rules and Administration
Calculators Stolen From Two Businesses on Shaver Road
Break ins at two local businesses on Shaver road NE report more than $1,100 in losses. Thomas Peifer of Butler Paper Co. lists three calculators plus stamps, watches, tools, cash and pen sets missing. Joe Petrzelka of Rock Island Millwork reports a calculator taken.
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Shaver Road
Thomas Peifer
Butler Paper Co
Joe Petrzelka
Rock Island
Unconstitutional Segment of Iowa Crime Code Questioned
Iowa Attorney General's office says Section 613 of the proposed criminal code revision is unconstitutional. It would restore voting and office rights to offenders discharged from parole, conflicting with Article II of the Iowa Constitution and gubernatorial pardon powers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
UPI
House
Iowa
C. Joseph Coleman
Lowa
Coleman
Clay Spear
Burlington
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Rashid Karami
Karami
C.R. Weather
Daily Record
Mercy
Donald Neumeyer
Walker
St. Luke’s
Steven Zach
Lisbon
Marvin G. Jackson
North Townecourt
Robert L. Dillon
Center Point
August A. Stephenson
James Wright
Woodside Drive
Bloomington, Ill
Kurt Moser
Moser
Virgil Moser
Sixth Avenue SE
Carl Kintzle
Monticello
Christine M
Larry E. McGuire
Anne E
Gerald E. Barker
Jerome Lee
Estell Emma Vonderheide
Magistrate's Court
Robert McCue
Valleyview Drive
Joseph Stallman
Fairfax
Jay Lerch
Mt. Vernon
Charlene Beatty
Shellsburg
William Michalek
Twentieth Avenue
Ron Paulsen
Teresa Drive
Joy Krizanek
Aloha Drive
Hiawatha
Rodney Tidrick
Oxford
John Moeller
Sixth Street
David Voigt
Mr. Vernon
Thomas Merlin
Richard Des Camps
Tenth Street
Steven Knapp
Fifth Street
Duane Poole
Harvest Hill
Ricky Langguth
Thirty-third Street
Joseph O'Connor
Terry Leonard
Coralville
Pearl Slanter
Gerald Mangrich
Eighth Street
Horak Motors
Second Avenue
Ailure
Wayne McCoy
First Avenue
John A. Phillips
Edward Jurelrt Jurevitz
Wilson Avenue
Anchorage
Atlanta
Miami
Los Angeles
Bismarck
Minneapolis
New Orleans
Duluth
Denver
New York
Phoenix
Honolulu
Seattle
Houston
Irs
Roeder Eere Druhaoeeo
Renee Rea
Chicago Nanos
PtCidy
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Sunny
Omaha
Regents
By Charles Roberts
Donald Shaw
Davenport
Mary Louise Petersen
Harlan
Tor
George Mulholland
George C. Mulholland, Jr
Fresno
Dorothy Pinckney
Wayne
St. Olaf
Lillian R. En- Sues
Norway Lutheran Church
Witt’s
Elkader
John E. Lapes
Hearst
FBI
U.S. Treasury Department
U.S. Postal Service
Recreation Commission
Noelridge Park
Manhattan Park
Jones Park
Bender
Ellis Pool
Kid Baseball League
Saroyan
Coe
New Jersey
Charles
James
Duke of York
Lowas
John B. Turner and Son
Turner East
Second Avenue S.E
Turner West
First Avenue West
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