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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1977
Page
2
In Brazzaville, an interim military government eased public security Monday while continuing to search for two surviving gunmen who killed Congolese President Marien Ngouabi. Two other gunmen were killed. Armed soldiers check IDs and search cars as authorities pursue the fugitives.
South Africa proposes direct involvement in Rhodesian negotiations to press the Smith regime and ensure sincerity, according to diplomatic officials. The move follows a pattern of regional intervention as Addis and others weigh next steps in the stalled peace process.
Classical guitarist Tom Stone from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and visiting professor at Maharishi International University will give a concert lecture Tuesday at 7 30 p m at Doctors Court 4245 First Avenue SE as part of the second annual spring festival by Transcendental Meditation. He will perform original works on new instruments with his wife Patti. the event is free and open to the public.
A Waverly livestock buyer, Melvin Luchtenberg aged 51, died in a one car crash on highway 18 near Hawkeye during snowy conditions. West Union authorities reported he died en route to Palmer Memorial hospital. Also killed were 19 year old Robert Kulp of Bettendorf in a collision with a fire truck en route to a blaze in Bettendorf and 26 year old Sheryl J McCall of Morning Sun who lost control on snow on highway 78 east of Morning Sun hitting a bridge abutment.
A 37 year old man from Oelwein surrendered after a five and half hour standoff with more than a dozen law enforcement officers at his home. Police and state troopers surrounded the residence while his wife and a friend pleaded for him to give up. The weapon was knocked away by the friend and the man was subdued and taken to a mental health facility in Independence. No charges were filed.
Weather outlook shows warmer conditions with partly cloudy skies on Wednesday. Highs move from the 40s to 50s, with a chance of rain or snow on Thursday and Friday. Temperatures then rise into the 50s and 60s, with overnight lows in the 20s and 30s. Pool level reported at 679.58, Traveler's Forecast for Tuesday.
The column records several birth announcements from March for families including Klotzbach, Schmit, Matthess, Brockman, Hurley, and Pino with locations in Ohio and Peru. It also logs multiple weekend local incidents in Lima with times and brief causes such as wiring, backfire, fireplace, dryer, ashes, gas, furnace, and alarm faults at various addresses.
Armand Hug, a ragtime pianist and New Orleans jazz authority, died in New Orleans on Saturday from a heart attack at age 66. On this date in 1891 a marriage in Kentucky ended the Hatfield and McCoy feud.
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