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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1978
Page
10
The White House tax package would end the medical expense deduction for home improvements starting in 1979, risking thousands of dollars in relief for ill or disabled taxpayers. The article outlines how to claim remaining deductions in 1978, with steps to document physician recommendations, appraisals, and expenses, and explains qualifying items and transportation costs.
The article explains a bridge play where South leads the nine of clubs to secure four club tricks, yielding a 68 percent success for the contract. It compares this to the finesse, noting the latter's 60 percent base success and 18 percent chance of an overtrick, then endorses the simple finesse in three notrump duplicates while preserving overtricks.
On this date in 1942 during World War II more than 1 100 British bombers pounded Cologne Germany. The raid marked a heavy daylight or night bombing operation with extensive destruction and strategic impact noted in wartime reports.
The Monitor, Union warship, nearly sank en route to Chesapeake Bay for its Merrimack encounter and later sank off Cape Hatteras with fourteen crewmen lost. The note adds that the Byzantine navy credited much to Greek fire whose exact composition remains unknown. Admiral Nelson rose to captain before age twenty-one aboard warships.
Dr. G M Yuill and the British Hang Gliding Assn. study report a low accident rate of under two percent with two deaths and 45 injuries among about 2 500 members. Experts call for strict safety standards, proper instruction, equipment, and wind limits to reduce injuries.
Hong Kong authorities reported over 1,000 Chinese refugees detained in the first five months of 1978, a 111 percent increase from 1977. Sources say most are returned to China, with about three others evading capture for each one caught. Many arrive by fishing junk or by swimming the shark infested Mirs Bay northeast of the city.
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