Today Family Focus and Local News Highlights
A compact guide to education and civic topics includes preschool mealtime learning, a mud race near the Wapsi pinicon river, and science fair selections for the International fair. Also notes budget hearings, dog guides at the Iowa Commission for the Blind, and upcoming legislation on water quality standards.
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Lowa Commission For the Blind
Cloyd Robinson
Cedar Rapids
Weather outlook for Cedar Rapids with rain and mild highs
The cedar rapids forecast shows rain on monday afternoon with a 54 degree high. Tuesday brings partly cloudy skies with lows in the mid forties and highs between 60 and 65.
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Cedar Rapids
Court To Hear Nixon Tape Appeal
The Supreme Court agreed to hear Nixon's bid to block release of 30 White House tape recordings from the Watergate trial. The cases raise privacy and publicity issues as networks seek access to the conversations among Nixon and aides.
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Cause of Plane Crash Disputed Toll to 580
Canary Islands disaster today tops history with 580 dead as Pan American and KLM 747s collide on Tenerife runway. Officials differ: Pan Am says 330 of 396 aboard died. KLM reports 249 or 250 aboard with all perishing.
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Canary Islands
Pan American
KLM
New York
Amsterdam
U.S
Paris
Tenerife
Ed Harper
U.S. National Transportation Safety Board
Antonio Oyarzabal
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Trade Deficit Reaches Record February Margin
The Commerce Department reports a February trade deficit of 1.866 billion dollars, the third record in four months. Oil imports driven by higher value and volume help push overall imports above exports, with total imports at 11.67 billion and exports at 9.8 billion.
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U.S
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Brezhnev Warns Carter Rights Campaign Hurts Talks
Soviet leader Brezhnev warned Cyrus Vance that U.S. human rights pressure intrudes in Soviet internal affairs and could block constructive relations. He cited non interference and urged mutual solutions on arms talks while remaining cordial at a Moscow luncheon with Gromyko.
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UPI
Leonid Brezhnev
Cyrus Vance
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Anatoly Dobrynin
Vance
Washington
U.S
Nixon
Tass
Gromyko
Lenin Hills
Rain shortages worry Iowa farmers as April plans loom
Iowa farmers report only light weekend rains with Cedar Rapids totaling about a half inch and Dyersville up to one and a half inches. Dean Kleckner, Iowa Farm Bureau president, warns of trouble if rain does not come, as corn planting approaches and subsoil moisture remains dry. Farmers fear a smaller harvest if conditions don’t improve, prompting earlier planting in hopes of moisture.
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Dyersville
Iowa
Dean Kleckner
Iowa Farm Bureau
Kleckner
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