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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1978
Page
5
A UPI report cites CDC official Dr. Paul Weisner claiming 50 000 to 80 000 young women are rendered sterile yearly by gonorrhea. A government venereal disease screening found 188 200 cases in 4 294 044 women over six months.
SBA Administrator A Vernon Weaver says investigators will determine if agency employees took kickbacks in a multi million dollar fraud tied to minority loan program. President Carter pledges manpower. Weaver cites possible 27 million cost and ongoing NY probe.
Repayment issues and alleged abuses surface in a decade old SBA program. Weaver cites misused advances, including a race horse purchase and early second loans before repayment. Potential losses reach up to 3.5 million for 35 disadvantaged groups in New York asJustice Department action looms next week.
Sources say international mediators urged President Somoza to resign while an opposition figure claims the regime is in its final stages. A clash between Nicaraguan troops and suspected Sandinista guerrillas occurred near the Costa Rica border, the sixth such incident since the September uprising, with no casualty details released.
Vice Premier Wang Chen signaled China may buy about 80 Harrier jets from Britain. Officials said Britain is open to formal defense equipment requests from China as Cyrus Vance notes the U.S. has banned arms to China while European allies may decide for themselves.
President Carter signed the most extensive banking law overhaul since the 1930s. The measure bans insider loans, expands FDIC powers, tightens bank holding company rules, and boosts customer privacy with notice and challenge rights. Other signed bills extend the Consumer Product Safety Commission, expand the National Park System, and fund urban recreation repairs.
Terry Wacker, just 10 years old, spends the past two years collecting discarded aluminum cans to redeem them for cash, revealing which beer brands are most commonly littered.
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