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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1977
Page
1
The Privacy Protection Study commission plans to recommend severe limits on government access to private records without individual consent. Exceptions would allow access via legal process in cases of suspected illegal conduct. The two year study, approved by all seven members, includes damages for breached confidentiality.
Denise Wall, 18, daughter of Mr and Mrs Glenn Wall of Central City, was crowned queen of the Eastern Iowa band festival in Cedar Rapids. She is a Central City High School senior. Page 5D offers more festival pictures.
The Daily Iowan announces a non scheduled Monday edition to run corrections about a libel suit linked to a July 15 1974 editorial. Erwin Lerner sued for 600000 with 100000 actual and 500000 punitive damages, alleging false portrayal of him as a doctor in a Dalkon Shield report.
Andrew Young the U N ambassador may skip a South Africa visit due to stringent conditions that would label him an honorary white or colored representative. An aide said Young, a cabinet official, would not go under those terms. Mondale arrives in Lisbon to press for black participation and free elections in Rhodesia, with plans to meet Vorster in Vienna.
Negotiations collapse after a day of talks with several building trades crafts. A stoppage is expected Monday in Cedar Rapids with meetings planned next week. Painters and sheet metal workers settled. others seek wage fringe hikes and cost‑of‑living adjustments through 1979.
An editor notes this is the first of two stories examining auto repair shops. Officials vary on fraud pervasiveness with some calling shops honest while others cite a crooked shop. National data show repairs as a frequent consumer complaint and disclosures expand, Iowa lacks such laws.
The Carter administration began a thorough reassessment of Ford era strategic policy aimed at crippling Soviet recovery in a nuclear war. The review by the NSC and the Pentagon seeks to revise the retaliatory doctrine outlined by Donald Rumsfeld and influenced by James Schlesinger, with Defense Secretary Harold Brown cautioning over unlimited expenditures and accelerated arms crisis.
The Gazette highlights college commencements at Coe and Mt. Mercy across multiple pages and features a night-shift work piece in Trend. Tornado-damaged Eastern Iowa families are profiled in Iowa News, with weather and family focus items scattered through sections A to F.
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