Libyan Diplomats Ordered Out After U.S. Standoff
Four Libyans suspected of intimidating exiles in Washington will leave the United States by Sunday under a U.S. State Department agreement. Libyan officials say the four, not formal diplomats, will be surveilled by the FBI during their departure while 24 other Libyans' diplomatic status is reviewed.
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Ali Houderi
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Hodding Carter
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FBI
Jana
Nuri Ahmed Swedan
Ali Ramram
Mohammed Gamadi
Abdullahbedi
Eastern Iowa Band Festival Parade Opens at 10 A.M.
The Eastern Iowa Band Festival Parade forms at Third Avenue and Sixth Street SE at 10 a.m. It marches to Second Avenue then down to Second Street before turning to Third Avenue and returning to Greene Square.
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Third Avenue
Sixth Street
Second Avenue
Second Street
Greene Square
Farmers spend record to plant corn in Iowa drought risk
Iowa farmers have plowed a record sum into corn planting amid hopes for timely rain. If rainfall fails, the money could be wasted as dry conditions threaten yields and fieldwork delays persist.
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Iowa
Sunday Double Holiday Marks 1980 Benchmark
Gazette staff writer Dick Hogan notes Sunday is Mother's Day and a second important 1980 benchmark. Farmers and golfers begin their spring planting and season activities as the page signals.
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Gazette
Dick Hogan
Swiss envoy seeks access as Iran detains journalist wife
The state department confirms Cynthia Dwyer, a Buffalo State English professor’s wife and freelance journalist, has been arrested in Iran on espionage charges. Swiss diplomats request permission to visit and verify her condition and charges. A separate case in New York involves Susan Lyons barred from a Tehran-bound flight on FAA-ordered grounds.
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Buffalo State College
CIA
Buffalo Evening News
Iran
Buffalo
Copenhagen
Roger Rudenstein
Ms. Lyons
Federal Aviation Administration
FAA
New York
Ray Chambers
State Department
Arefi
Tehran
Birmingham
Apple blossom time at Morgan Creek Park Arboretum
In eastern Iowa the Morgan Creek Park Arboretum near Cedar Rapids features a Henry F. du Pont Flame flowering crab apple in bloom. Ranger Ron Aschbrenner poses beside the tree as 19 varieties of flowering crabs fill the Arboretum, which opened in 1970 and is open daily from 4 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.
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Morgan Creek Park Arboretum
Cedar Rapids
Ron Aschbrenner
Henry F. du Pont
Restraining order to avert C and N W strike
A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order delaying a 3500 C and N W Railroad employee strike that would halt service in 10 states including Iowa. The order lasts until 6 p m Sunday May 18 with a hearing set on the meal privilege dispute next Friday.
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Chicago
Chicago & North Western Railroad
Iowa
U.S
Joseph Perry
C&nw
United Transportation Union
Perry
Iowa Revises Interest Rates To Counter Market Slide
Iowa officials announce mid month adjustment in rates paid by banks to public bodies for certificates of deposit. The drop, up to 4.44 percent, takes effect Monday after an emergency meeting of the rate setting committee. The move aims to stop money from leaving the community as banks refused to meet committee rates.
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UPI
Iowa
Roger Barnett
State Treasurer’s Office
Maurice Baringer
Barnet
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