Cuban Spy Aided Ford Reagan Plot Report
The Chicago Tribune reports a Cuban spy code named Andres Gomez advised the Emiliano Zapata Unit in San Francisco terror plots against President Ford and Ronald Reagan. FBI and CIA assess Gomez link and possible US presence during Adornetto testimony. Zapata unit claimed bombings and planned assassinations.
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Chicago
API
San Francisco
Ford
Ronald Reagan
Chicago Tribune
Justice Department
the Tribune
Reagan
Gregg Daniel Adornetto
Andres Gomez
Emiliano Zapata
Zapata
San Francisco Bay
Adornetto
Gomez
Directorate of General Intelligence
CIA
Mexico
Laguitas
Calif
Zapata Unit
Rights unit investigator files discrimination complaint
Cedar Rapids Human Rights Commission investigator Paul Young has filed a race discrimination complaint with the state Civil Rights Commission against Executive Secretary Mark Doolin and the commission’s personnel committee. Young says he was fired after more than a year on the job, citing conflict with black colleagues and alleging improper actions during the discharge review.
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The
Cedar Rapids Human Rights Commission
Mark Doolin
Commission
State Civil Rights Commission
Paul Young
Young
Doolin
Mark
CETA
Paul
Tucker
Man Arrested in Sporting Gear Theft
An 18 year old Cedar Rapids youth was held in Linn jail on Friday after Cedar Rapids police detectives arrested him Thursday and charged him with larceny in the nighttime. Lonnie L. Noggle of 510 Tenth Street SE faces a Feb 15 theft of guns and fishing equipment from a car owned by Richard E. Manley of 1420 L Street SW. Noggle held on $2,500 bond.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn
Lonnie L. Noggle
Tenth Street
Richard E. Manley
L Street
Noggle
Police Probe Ransackings of Two Adjacent Homes
Cedar Rapids police investigate two nearby residences ransacked on Thursday night. Mike Hazewinkel at 1011 Second Street SW reports entry to his home and his grandparents' home at 1013 Second Street SW with no valuables taken.
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Cedar Rapids
Mike Hazewinkel
Second
John Foubert
Second Street
Hazewinkel
Body of 19 year old found in rural Iowa ditch
Julie Ann Benning, 19, was found badly decomposed in a ditch two miles northeast of Shell Rock. Butler County Sheriff Marvin Barth said she had been missing since November 28. An autopsy was underway to determine cause of death.
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Shell Rock
Butler County
Julie Ann Benning
Marvin Barth
Barth
Man Charged With Receiving Stolen Property in Cedar Rapids
John O. Sawyer 38 of 217 Twenty-seventh Street NW held in Linn County jail on $1000 bond after Cedar Rapids detectives arrested him Thursday for receiving stolen property. He is linked to the Jan. 16 theft of two television sets from the Marlin Hamilton residence at 1445 Council Street NE. An earlier note recalls the 1920 US Senate rejection of the Versailles treaty establishing the League of Nations.
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John O. Sawyer
Twenty-seventh Street
Linn County
Cedar Rapids
Sawyer
Marlin Hamilton
Council Street
Iowa senate weighs eight million Volga Lake funding
An eight million appropriation to complete Volga Lake in northeast Iowa moves to the senate appropriations committee. Debate centers on whether to fund full construction or retain earlier 1.5 million and 750 thousand steps while some lawmakers push to revert land to farmers.
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Des Moines
Volga Lake
Iowa
Senate Appropriations Committee
Kevin Kelly
Sioux City
Senate Appropriations Subcommittee On Natural Resources
Hilarius Heying
West Union
Appropriations Committee
Conservation Commission
Lowell Jenkins
Montrose
Jenkins
Cloyd Robinson
Cedar Rapids
Kelly
Clifton Lamborn
Maquoketa
Lamborn
Junkins
Heying
Man Held on Break in Charge
A 28 year old Cedar Rapids man Raymond D. Merritt is held in Linn jail on $20 000 bond after arrest on a warrant by Cedar Rapids detectives. He faces breaking and entering charges linked to a Jan 20 burglary at the Carol Ballantyne residence 1638 D avenue NE. No further records details were available in the county attorney’s office.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn
Raymond D. Merritt
Avenue NE
Carol Ballantyne
D Avenue NE
Truck Driver Hurt In Oelwein Mishap
Oelwein authorities seek a blue car believed linked to a Thursday crash that injured city employee Ray Schuller 34. Schuller swerved to avoid the vehicle, the truck overturned into a ditch, pinning him until firefighters freed him with back injuries.
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Oelwein
Ray Schuller
Schuller
Six Reports of CB Radio Thefts in Cedar Rapids
Six citizen band radio thefts were reported to Cedar Rapids police. Victims include Loren Witte of Marengo, Jim Huddleston of Coe College, Edwin T. Barnes of Anamosa, Rod Saab of Center Point, Larry Winkler of Bartonville Illinois, and Glenn Goodwin of Cedar Rapids. Items stolen include radios valued from $160 to $220 and one eight track tape player. The incidents occurred Thursday into Friday at locations around Cedar Rapids.
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Cedar Rapids
Loren Witte
Marengo
Fourth Street
Fourteenth Avenue SE
Jim Huddleston
Coe College
Coe
Edwin T. Barnes
Anamosa
Fourteenth Avenue
Third Street SE
Rod Saab
Center Point Road NE
Mt. Vernon Road
Larry Winkler
Bartonville IL
Oakland Road NE
Glenn Goodwin
Camburncourt SE
Ex Foreign Service Official Dies at 100
CLARKSBURG W Va AP Augustin Ferrin one of the first members of the modern US foreign service is dead at 100 He died Wednesday in a Marion county nursing home He graduated from Yale University in 1897 and was its oldest living alumnus.
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Anna W. Harste
Newhall
Herman Harste
Cedar Rapids
Germany
St. John’s Lutheran Church
Wallace Rogers
Fairfax
Ray Boland
Turner West
St. John’s Cemetery
Clarksburg
W. Va
Augustin Ferrin
U.S. Foreign Service
Marion County
Yale University
Conscience Clause Signed Into Law In Iowa
Gov. Robert Ray signed a conscience clause shielding medical personnel from abortion duties and forbidding discrimination against refusals. The bill allows hospitals to exclude staff from abortion duties and defines abortion with an emergency care exception. A second measure requires a 12 month apprenticeship for real estate salesmen before certification. Also: Rt. Rev. Msgr. Nicholas Wegner, longtime Boys Town director, died in Omaha after a lengthy illness.
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Des Moines
Robert Ray
Atty
Richard Turner
Turner
Omaha, Neb
Nicholas Wegner
Boys Towr
Omaha
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League of Nations
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Boys
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Scotts
Scotts Halls
Garden
Cindale Plaza
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