Freezing rain and sleet hit Iowa causing deaths and crashes
Treacherous sleet and freezing rain blanketed parts of Iowa over the weekend. A two vehicle head-on on Highway 38 near Olin killed Lena Forcst, 81, of Illinois, and injured William McCrea, 79, of rural Olin. West Des Moines saw Phillip Craig, 24, die after a lone-vehicle crash on an icy street. Waterloo reported multiple pileups on bridges, injuring several. Cedar Rapids and surrounding counties faced dense fog and icy roads with flight delays and cancellations at local airports.
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Hennepin, I
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McCrea
St. Luke’s Hospital
Cedar
R.C. Wooters
Polk
Waterloo
Sansouci
Des Moines
Delaware County
Winneshiek County
Allamakee
Buchanan
Clayton
Dubuque
Fayette
Cedar Rapids
United Airlines
Kansas City
Denver
Portland
Mississippi Valley Airlines
MVA
Ozark
Body recovered as fire kills four at MX missile silo
Rescue workers retrieved one victim from the Arnold Engineering Development Center silo after a flash fire that engulfed the 100 foot wide vertical silo. Four men died while two firefigh ters and an engineer searched the waterfilled cell amid 750000 gallons of water. The incident occurred during debris removal after a prior blast at the MX missile test facility near Tullahoma Tennessee.
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Tenn
Bob Zimmerman
Air Force
Arnold Engineering Development Center
Zimmerman
Pan American Services Inc
Arnold
John Blackburn
Blackburn
Kenneth Johnson
Reagan
Aerojet
Dona J. Roy Jr
Fair Oaks
Calif
Murray L. Tauscher
Tennessee
Nations adopt weak free trade position at Geneva
In Geneva 88 GATT members adopted a 17 page declaration to fight protectionism but many, led by the European Community, voiced reservations. The watered down text fell short of a binding standstill on trade barriers and agriculture was a disputed area as U S officials warned Congress may be unhappy with the outcome.
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Switzerland
UPI
European Economic Community
Wilhelm Haferkamp
GATT
U.S
William Brock
Congress
Israel relaxes talk rules on Lebanon peace talks
Israel's Cabinet approved a U S backed compromise for Lebanon negotiations while insisting some talks occur in Jerusalem. The plan names authorized representatives for each side and allows ministers to be excluded from talks as earlier positions shift under pressure from the United States mediators Habib and Draper.
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Gazette
Lebanon
Jerusalem
Dan Meridor
U.S
Philip Habib
Morris Draper
Middle East
Palestine Liberation Organization
Ariel Sharon
Yitzhak Shamir
Rafael Eitan
Mena
Israel
Man Thinks Himself Smarter Than Wife and Finds a Witty Reply
A man who believes he is smarter than his wife encounters a sharp retort from his spouse, underscoring wit over arrogance in domestic banter.
Pope to visit El Salvador in early 1980s Central America tour
Pope John Paul II will visit El Salvador and likely other Central American nations and Haiti in late February or early March. The trip marks his first Central American visit and will include a public mass a clergy meeting and a youth gathering. The visit comes amid church pressure and regional violence linked to the civil conflict.
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John Paul II
Haiti
Gregorio Rosa Chavez
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Cated
Guatemala
Nicaragua
Rome
Central America
Oscar Arnulfo Romero
Robert White
Roberto d’Aubuisson
Constituent Assembly
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