Cedar Rapids News Briefs Highlight Local Actions
In Cedar Rapids several local items appear from school loans to campus speakers. A human rights commission action raises questions of discrimination. Other notes discuss guide dogs access, museum gun seizures, and Moonie deprogramming. Extra topics cover pork cuts and engine swaps.
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Cedar Rapids Christian School
Hock
Josh McDowell
Crusade For Christ
Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids Human Rights Commission
Weather outlook and wry saying mix in closing line
Cloudy conditions with lows in the mid 30s and a chance of light rain Thursday as highs reach the upper 50s. A wry closing saying notes an optimist a father allows a first date with the new car, a pessimist refuses, and a cynic did.
Supreme Court voids 65-foot truck rule in Iowa
Iowa Supreme Court unanimously voided IDOT's 1976 rule allowing 65-foot twin trailer trucks, ruling the agency lacked authority to attach conditions. The decision affects ongoing efforts to permit longer trucks, with the 1977 rule rescinding the 1976 rule rendering prior actions moot. The court also addressed Attorney General Turner’s appeal power and ruled the Motor Club of Iowa had standing.
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Des Moines
Iowa Supreme Court
Iowa Department of Transportation
IDOT
Iowa
J. David Harris
Iowa House
Senate
George Kinley
Supreme Court
Scott County District Trial Court
SDOT
High Court
Department of Transportation
Atty. Gen
Richard Turner
Scott County Court
Motor Club of
Turner
Motor Club
Police disguise foil Italian hijacker ending 43 hour odyssey
In Zurich police disguised as Iberian Airlines crew overpowered Luciano Porcari after a 43 hour 8500 mile hijack seeking his two daughters on two continents. Porcari fired once wounding a officer. no other injuries. He faces possible Swiss trial if Spain or Italy do not request extradition.
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Zurich
Switzerland
Luciano Porcari
Porcari
Turin
Italy
Isabella Zavoli
Justice Ministry
Spain
Kirkwood Trims Faculty Over Budget Pressure
Kirkwood Community College officials inform an undisclosed number of faculty that they may be laid off at year end due to budget problems. Between 10 and 28 jobs could be cut depending on state appropriations, with terminations to be reviewed at the March 24 board meeting.
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Kirkwood Community College
Ken Kupka
Kupka
Panel approves delays and jobs credit in tax measures
The Senate finance committee backed a one year delay on sick pay and foreign income tax rises and endorsed a two year jobs credit for new hiring. The plan offers a 25 percent credit on the first 4,200 in wages for the first year with 3 percent payroll above last year.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Carter
House
Treasury
Shellsburg Supt Harvey Chauvin Reprimanded for Unprofessional Acts
The Iowa teaching practices commission reprimandedShellsburg School Superintendent Harvey Chauvin for numerous unprofessional acts during the 1975-76 year. The nine member panel split 6-3 with teachers dissenting. Chauvin announced his resignation effective year end and reportedly took a Missouri job. The report cites angry, loud, and offensive behavior and public criticism of Shellsburg teachers as factors in district discord.
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Des Moines
Iawa Teaching Practices Commission
Shellsburg
Harvey Chauvin
Chauvin
Missouri
Board of Education
Shellsbury
Lebanese leftist Kamal Jumblatt assassinated near Beirut
Kamal Jumblatt, 59, leader of Lebanon’s leftist National Movement and head of the Druze Progressive Socialist Party, was killed in a machine gun ambush while en route to his Moukhtara home near Kfarhim. His driver and bodyguard also died. Arab peacekeeping forces tightened checkpoints as crowds gathered at his Musaitbeh home.
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Beirut
Lebanon
UPI
Kamal Jumblatt
Jumblatt
Kfarhim
Chouf
Moukhtara
Musaitbeh
West Beirut
Tewfic Mishlawi
Progressive Socialist Party
National Movement
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Iowa Commission For the Blind
van Buren County
General Motors Corp
Chevrolet
Cadillac
Sun Myung Moon
Unification Church
Moonies
Hanoi
Long Island
Newsday
Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
Decorah
Maquoketa
Marion
Frank Nye
Gazette
Scott
Kinley
Turner Right
General Assembly
Associated Press OF New York Times
UPI Telephoto
Jose Recuenco
Jose Maria Santamaria-Mena
Iberian Airlines
Moscow
Kirkwood
Judy Daubenmier
Arette Ed
By Roger Munns
Retin Clarea
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