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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1978
Page
1
Ten years after a killer tornado devastated Oelwein residents recall the disaster as crowds flip to Page 8. The issue notes questions about the city’s current state and future recovery.
Cedar Rapids coverage highlights a local agency as a principal player in a jobs program targeting low income youths. The article frames the ongoing discussion of inflation versus unemployment and references the Harris Survey as the source of the question.
A Page 9 report highlights a surge in student enrollment at agricultural colleges with emphasis on why women are increasingly joining these programs and the implications for the field.
The article offers cost-saving tips for readers shopping women’s fashions. It outlines quick strategies to cut expenses, suggesting careful comparison, timing purchases, and using sales as opportunities to save.
A reader questions the purpose of The Greek Tycoon if it isn’t about Jackie and Ari, noted on Page 10. The note hints at broader media curiosity and possible misalignment with expected themes.
Robbies Delight a ten month pregnant horse fell into a well pit on the DeWayne and Nancy Jones farm northeast of Traer. Veterinarian Dr. Charles Troup predicted a risky delivery yet a colt was born last week. The colt, unnamed yet, is a chocolate color, nicknamed by locals Well Pit as a possible name amid the farm’s quiet recovery.
The Supreme Court refused to block an Iowa ruling forcing journalist Diane Graham of the Des Moines Register to disclose confidential sources and notes in a Burlington divorce case. The Iowa Supreme Court held First Amendment protection is not absolute and can yield when information is essential, no alternatives exist, and the suit is not frivolous. The decision accompanies rulings on labor dispute rights and other matters before the court.
A freight train derailed near Nacogdoches Texas sending 16 tank cars loose. Eleven cars carried corrosive acetic acid and butadiene and exploded causing smoke haze. Three blasts leveled fires and about 3500 residents within a two mile radius were evacuated.
Former CIA chief William Colby argues in Honorable Men that starting sabotage teams and escalating to broad bombing and ground forces was a mistaken approach. He recalls pressuring Robert McNamara at a 1963 Hawaii conference to avoid North Vietnamese sabotage and warns the war should have been fought at the village level with Vietnamese forces.
Zaire's army fights rebels in Shaba province for the second time in 14 months as Mobutu seeks international aid. Claims of Cuban troops with invaders surface, while Belgian and Angolan officials dispute involvement. The insurgents, blamed on exiled Shaba natives, threaten Kolwezi and Lubumbashi amid border tensions.
Patty Hearst, 24, who joined the Symbionese Liberation Army in a 1974 bank robbery, begins another 14 months at Pleasanton federal prison after losing appeals. The arrangement follows a judge’s order and her attorneys’ agreement.
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