Haig warns of grave consequences for Soviet Poland move
Secretary Haig says the United States will respond strongly to any Soviet intervention in Poland. He cites a tense Poland scenario after the Soviet party congress and a large Eastern European military exercise. He expects talks with Dobrynin soon but no summit in sight and notes Afghanistan withdrawal as a possible progress point.
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Alexander M. Haig Jr
United States
Soviet Union
Poland
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Haig
Moscow
U.S
State Department
Europe
William Dyess
Afghanistan
Anatoly Dobrynin
Party
Washington-Moscow
Iowa News Roundup of Sports and Education Notes
Rodeo winner Benny Jordan and arena record set by Jimmy Myers highlight a page of mixed local sports figures. Cattle on feed decline marks a six year low as schools face layoffs and funding pinch. The Hawkeyes eye a fourth straight wrestling title while Norwalk faces Ankeny in the girls final.
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Benny Jordan
Jimmy Myers
Iowa Hawkeyes
New Jersey
Garage sale offers pick of the litter at local sale
A neighborhood garage sale features a wide assortment of goods with shoppers browsing for bargains. Residents note a variety of items including furniture, books, toys, and household essentials, drawing families and collectors alike to the event.
Solar warmed dog house built with solar collector
Gary Rogers, an English painter, sustains a sun warmed winter shelter for his hunting dog. He constructed an earth house with a south facing solar collector, heavy insulation, and dirt banked on three sides.
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Gary Rogers
Rogers
Pakistani authorities plan Libya-bound flight to free hijacked hostages
In Damascus 54 Pakistani prisoners boarded a plane as relatives of the hijacker delayed departure over Libya prospects. The hijackers demanded 55 prisoners. Pakistan agreed to 54. Amb. Sarafarz Khan said the hostages would be freed later today in Tripoli after transfer to a Syrian aircraft. An American doctor and psychiatrist were flown to Damascus to care for the American captives.
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Syria
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Karachi
Pakistan
Mohammad Alamgir
Libya
Sarafarz Khan
Khan
Aleppo
Tripoli
Reagan orders new defense stockpile purchases
President Reagan directs FEMA to begin buying strategic materials for the national defense stockpile for the first time in 20 years. Key items include cobalt with priority given to those well below target levels across 106 stockpile sites. Chrome and manganese are not prioritized.
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UPI
Reagan
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Roy Markton
General Services Administration
Cobalt
Bernard Gallagher
Federal Emergency Management Act
Canada
Zambia
Zaire
Iowa Attorney General backs inter state phone tax plan
Des Moines Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller said a proposal to apply the 3 percent sales tax to out of state telephone calls would be legally permissible under Supreme Court rulings. Gov Robert Ray proposed taxing interstate and foreign calls originating in Iowa to raise about 6 million dollars annually. intrastate calls are already taxed.
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Iowa
Tom Miller
U.S. Supreme Court
Robert Ray
Ray
Miller
Supreme Court
House
Don Avenson
D-Oelwein
Iowa Wisconsin OK bridge repair plans to reopen by midsummer
Iowa and Wisconsin transport officials agreed on a plan to prop up the U S 18 bridge over the Mississippi with a scaffold to allow some traffic by midsummer. The false work will shorten the shipping channel and enable pedestrians to cross while permanent repairs proceed, with full traffic restored later if constraints allow.
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Des Moines
U.S. 18
Mississippi River
Iowa
Wisconsin
Prairie du Chien
Wis
Marquette
Harold Needles
Bob Given
Iowa Dot
Coast Guard
Given
Lowell Jackson
Wisconsin Dot
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