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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1977
Page
7
Rand Corp researchers say the U S birth rate will stay low while the economy remains healthy and many women work. They argue higher wages and time costs of bearing children suppress fertility, noting the trend reflects more working women and strong economic conditions.
Senate Finance Committee rejects Carter energy taxes and backs spending incentives for conservation and production to reduce foreign oil use from nine million to six million barrels a day by 1985. They also vote to block a $5 a barrel oil tariff and move toward non tax energy plan details.
Vasily Kuznetsov, 76, elected first deputy to President Leonid Brezhnev in a new post. He serves under Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and is expected to focus on ceremonial duties, diplomacy, and parliamentary work while Brezhnev leads a long-gestating constitution overhaul replacing the 1936 Stalin charter.
President Carter asserted the Panama Canal treaty guarantees U S defense rights for the waterway though Senate ratification is in doubt. Baker pressed for documents clarifying contradictions on U S military intervention after 2000 while State Department officials met with Panama to interpret the pact.
Andres Figueroa Cordero, a Puerto Rican nationalist, is en route to Puerto Rico after President Carter reduced his 25 to 75 year sentence to 23 years to permit return before death. He was wounded in a 1954 attack in the U.S. House that left five congressmen injured. He arrived at O’Hare in a wheelchair, surrounded by supporters.
In Cincinnati, comedian Shelley Berman and wife Sarah report their 12 year old Joshua has had malignant brain tumor surgery at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. A second operation followed as his spine was affected. He remains paralyzed and is listed in fair condition.
Local news dominates the Cedar Rapids Gazette front pages with briefs on city events, public notices, and community updates. Readers find concise summaries of council actions, school announcements, and neighborhood developments in the early section.
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