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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

May 01, 1972

Page

2

Six Die in Iowa Crashes and Wheel-Death at the Wheel

At least six people were killed in Iowa traffic crashes last weekend. A California man died of a heart attack at the wheel. one eighth death may not be counted. Read of collisions near Waverly, Cedar Rapids, and Perry, with multiple injuries and names including Wilma Rahe, Jack Dunkel, Raleigh Roberts, Gerald Sheehy, and Steven Willard Wood.

Iowa California Wilma R. Rahe Dyersville Steven Franck Fairbank Waverly Buck Creek Blacktop Highway 3 Raleigh Roberts Southgate Calif Highway 20 Jesup Roberts Perry Dallas County Iowa State University Steven Willard Wood Iowa Falls Ames Colleen J. Parr ISU Luzerne Lynn Yost Emmons Minn Lake Mills Minnesota Yost Robert Howell Ft. Dodge

Chisholm Forecasts Kennedy Nominee With Mills as Veep

Rep. Shirley Chisholm forecasts that the Democratic presidential nominee will Sen. Edward Kennedy with Rep. Wilbur Mills as running mate. She predicts the ticket would not derail her own campaign and aims to build delegate strength in state primaries for influence at the Miami Beach convention.

San Francisco UPI Shirley Chisholm D-N.y Sen Edward Kennedy Massachusetts Wilbur Mills Arkansas

Castro to make friendly official visit to Guinea in May

Fidel Castro will visit the Republic of Guinea in early May on a friendly official visit. The trip is at the invitation of President Sekou Toure, announced by Radio Havana and monitored in Miami. The schedule also includes Algeria in May and the Soviet Union in June.

Miami Fidel Castro Republic of Guinea Radio Havana Castro Sekou Toure Guinea Algeria Soviet Union

Clergyman Scales 20-Story Tower for Mountain Prep

The Rev. Lloyd Jenkins, 45, climbed a rope on a London 20 story apartment building for practice. He plans to scale a Swiss Alps mountain this summer to raise money for the mentally handicapped and notes the East End's lack of mountains.

London API Lloyd Jenkins East End

Moratorium urged on test-tube baby experiments

The AMA journal Editorial calls for a moratorium on experiments to implant fertilized human eggs in a uterus and discusses ethical, religious, and scientific issues raised by genetic engineering. It notes progress toward growing fertilized eggs in vitro and the remote prospect of human cloning.

Chicago Journal of the American Medical Assn AMA Journal

Big New York Protest for Soviet Jews

More than 50,000 marched along Fifth Avenue to press for the right of Soviet Jews to emigrate to Israel. Dignitaries including Sen. Javits and Manhattan with Borough presidents attended. Mayor Lindsay urged Nixon to intervene during his Moscow visit.

New York UPI Fifth Avenue Israel Tevye Fiddler Dag Hammarsskold Plaza Lindsay Nixon Moscow Sen. Javits R-N.y Manhattan Brooklyn Bronx Mindl Weinger Kiev The Greater

Former guard claims theft funds funded inn venture

Josef Bindt, a former mail guard convicted of mail theft, told the Vienna judge that he used the stolen money to buy an inn and that his aim was to become middle class.

Vienna UPI Josef Bindt

Too Many Principles Too Little Newsprint

In Milan a splinter group running on a neo fascist ticket for the May 7 elections published a newsletter listing 13 of its 18 guiding principles. A footnote said the other five were omitted for lack of space.

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Associated Press C.R. Woman Jack Dunkel Cedar Rapids Highway 150 Florence Winkler Central City Dunkel Kathryn Rahe Waterloo Jolene Rahe Oskaloosa Thomas S. Tierney Des Moines Roy Cosner Charles Allbee Larry Eugene Freel Lester Church Argyle Lee County Church Charles Baker Parkersburg Chisholm Kennedy Cedar Rapids Business College 2Nd Avenue 2Nd Street Regency East Thompson Bjornsen Investment Corp Big George Virgil Partch Reers Milan Italy Malekoff Third Ave First St Alma 4Rmana Amara Etlar José Selectivi Amane Canoga Reupon
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