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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1977
Page
1
A roundup of pages covers teen pregnancy among underage mothers and their altered lives, local civic issues on solar energy zoning, and a wide shelf of community topics from education to farming and weather. The note ends with a copyright line and a street index.
U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance announced that Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev rejected American concepts for a new Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty. Vance and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko planned May talks to resume, as disarmament hopes dimmed amid disagreements over Cruise missiles and Backfire bombers.
The FBI reports a 5 percent drop in murders robberies and aggravated assaults in 1976 the first decline since 1960 though theft and larceny rose 5 percent. Burglary and motor vehicle theft fell 5 to 6 percent with regional gains in New York and mixed results in major cities.
FBI reports show Cedar Rapids violent crime rising 48 percent in 1976 from 1975, but Acting Police Chief Gareth Clift calls the figure deceiving. He notes the police department changed its reporting system in early 1976, altering how incidents are recorded and reported.
Washington A special investigative committee accepted the resignation of chief counsel Richard Sprague amid charges of a witch hunt and character assassination. Sprague said he hoped his departure would keep the panel alive, while rivals accused former chairman Henry Gonzalez of pressuring the move. If the vote fails, the panel dies at midnight Thursday.
Eight inmates broke out of the Iowa state penitentiary Tuesday with two immediately recaptured. John Grosnickel and Floyd Conner were found within hours, while six others including Kenneth Sheffey John Kyle Noah Sheffey Michael Reese Tony Butler and Donald Leach remained at large.
Officials report the KLM jumbo was told to stand by before takeoff as it clashed with a Pan Am jet on the Santa Cruz de Tenerife runway. The death toll climbs to 577 with two more fatalities, including Isabelle Lord of Long Beach and Col. Marvin Waters of Petaluma. Bodies await identification and repatriation as authorities negotiate death certificates.
Mrs Agnes O McPartland of Cedar Rapids said her daughter in law Mrs Marty McPartland of Dallas was among the 577 people killed when a Pan American 747 collided with a Dutch KLM 747 on Tenerife island. Marty McPartland's husband Bill is a Cedar Rapids native and a Dallas land developer. Services are pending in Dallas.
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