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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1979
Page
2
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President Carter directed Energy Secretary James Schlesinger to immediately determine the facts behind California gas shortages and report next week on new steps to ease the problem. He urged Californians to resist aggressive tank filling and noted lines could spread nationwide this summer.
HEW Secretary Joseph A. Califano Jr proposes an experimental boarding school system modeled on an Israeli program. The plan, potentially costing up to 5 million dollars a year, would enroll 100 students per site in five regions, selected for talent rather than test scores, drawing criticism from educators and unions.
Thousands of demonstrators from across the nation are expected to converge on Washington for a Sunday anti nuclear power march from near the White House to the Capitol. Organizers say 25 000 to 30 000 people will attend with hundreds of buses and diverse supporters including Gov Brown Ralph Nader Jane Fonda Tom Hayden Barry Commoner and Maggie Kuhn.
A 35 year old white man was detained by Secret Service in Los Angeles for carrying a starter pistol near President Carter. He admitted drinking heavily and appeared as a derelict. Officials could not confirm a planned shot into the ground near the president’s limousine.
In San Salvador militants from the Popular Revolutionary Bloc seized the French and Costa Rican embassies and city sites, fatally injuring one officer and a private guard and wounding another. Captives include diplomats and embassy staff as discussions over safety continue.
TVA spokesman said a leak in the Browns Ferry reactor 2 cooling system released a small amount of radioactivity into the Tennessee River. The release, occurring Friday night, stayed within NRC safety limits at 16 percent of the maximum permissible amount and posed no hazard.
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