Clark says $28 billion cuts require touching military funds
Senator Dick Clark warned at a Cedar Rapids Kiwanis banquet that trimming $28 billion from the federal budget is impossible without large military spending cuts. He argued military spending totals $260 billion this year, more than a quarter of the $360 billion budget, and cannot be reduced without harming essential services.
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Jo Wil
Ing
U.S
Dick Clark
Drown
Clark
Eniel
Cedar Rapile Kiwanis Club
Town House Metal
Martiple
Senator Schweiker Calls for Public Kennedy Cover-Up Hearing
Senator Richard Schweiker of Pennsylvania urged a public hearing by the Senate select committee on Intelligence to examine alleged Kennedy cover-ups. He cited new material and discrepancies in late FBI Director J Edgar Hoover's affidavit as evidence of possible official concealment. He suggested the FBI may maintain a do not file system that could herald further disclosures about the Kennedy nomination.
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Washington
UPI
Richard Schwaiber
R-Pa
Join Kennedy Ae Church
D-Idaho
Senate
Schwalker
Schweiker
I. J. Edgar Hoover
FBI
Kennedy
Guns Offered at Catholic Church Drive for Gun Control
In Columbus Ohio a parish at St Philip the Apostle collected about 17 handguns and similar toy guns during a Sunday service. The guns were sent to a foundry to be melted into crosses and distributed to lawmakers. Parish leader Rev Richard Engle organized the action amid a protest outside by local opponents.
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Columbus, Ohio
UPI
St. Philip the Apostle Catholic Church
Nahelujah
Columbus
Engle
Masa
Borne Leitwein
Cedar Rapids Advances Bus Service Upgrade Plan
The Cedar Rapids city council approved a five year program to upgrade mass transit. Plans include 30 new 25 passenger buses, two new routes and night service on Mondays and Thursdays, doubling senior citizen service with two more buses, five sheltered stops, and a downtown station. Total five year city cost about 1.87 million with potential UMTA funds of 4.2 million. bid specs and grant applications to begin, aiming for early 1977 service.
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Cedar Rapids
Regional Transit Authority
RTA
Minnesota
Bather, Amprose, Wolsfeld, Inc
Urban Mass Transit Administration
UMTA
Dre
NSA Intercepted Antiwar Figures Conversations Report
The Washington Post reports the NSA intercepted conversations of antiwar leaders including Jane Fonda Abbie Hoffman and Eldridge Cleaver in 1969 1970. It notes transcripts circulated under highly classified codes with about 180 messages to senior officials. The paper cites financial and travel plan content and mentions Rev Abernathy information tied to King era leadership.
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Washington
National Security Agency
Ralph
Washington Post
United States
the Post
NSA
Lew Allen
Tual
Trans
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Soviet Union
Abernathy
Martin Luther King
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Cnde
Bir. Abernathy
Adid
Maton Wari
Helmet Protest Parade in Cedar Rapids
Several hundred motorcyclists gathered Sunday at Kingston stadium to denounce Iowa’s helmet law. The march began on Center Drive SW and stretched to Fifteenth Street SE before returning along Second and Third avenues. A rally at Toddville Legion hall followed to fund legal action against the law.
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Iowa
Kingston Stadium
Center Drive
Fifteenth Street
Toddville Legion Hall
Curtains Up Broadway Musicians Ratify Contract
Broadway unions end a 25 day strike after a 20 percent pay raise. Musicians approved a three year pact by 189 to 76 with base pay rising from 290 to 850 weekly next year and 848 in year three. The deal freezes orchestra size at most theaters through 1981, with exceptions for six venues. Mayor Beame helped mediate the settlement.
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American Federation of Muscclana
Srimediale
League of New York Theaters
S48
Broadway
Abraham D. Beamé
Gracie Mansion
Beame
T Hat
Right Of Court To Hear Strike Petition
Cedar Rapids theaters sue overstrike violence and intimidation seeking injunctions. Defendants challenge Linn district court jurisdiction due to notice and response rules, and unions contend they are not entities subject to suit. Hawkeye Labor Council argues it is not a labor organization or suable entity. A Monday hearing on a temporary injunction was cancelled. Frank Gileuy is noted as 30 years old.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn District Court
Paramount
Iowa
Stage 4
Plaza Theaters
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage
Local 1Y
Edek
Hawkeye Labor Council
High Seas Mutiny Aboard Panamanian Ship Stirs Jurisdiction Questions
West Palm Beach AP report details a Panamanian freighter Mimi mutiny case. Five crewmen, including four Indonesians and a Filipino, are held after confessing to killing four German officers and scuttling the ship. Jurisdiction remains contested among Panama, West Germany, and U.S. authorities as investigations continue. The Lalli, a German freighter, aided the survivors in waters northeast of Cuba after a distress call. The Mimi had carried fertilizer from Tampa to Miami before sailing to Georgetown, Guyana.
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West Palm Beach
Fit
Wey
Louis Gidel
U.S. Immigration and Natunalization — Service
Mimi
Cubs
Mini
Manfred
Oppellmann
Cap Tit
Lalli
Avid
Gidelaid
Uhere
Panama
West Germany
U.S
Bonn
U.S. ‘Coast Guard
FBI
Norfolk, Va
Florida
Waiter Sitube
Coast Guard
Hearst case near miss for Sacramento police
Sacramento police nearly connected Patricia Hearst to a 1975 homicide during an March visit to a Sacramento duplex linked to Hearst and the Harris family. Detectives visited the site while investigating a separate robbery murder, with witnesses noting police questioned a neighbor after a body was found nearby.
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Sacramento
Calif
Patricia Hearst
Somers
James Bogdan
Mise Hearst
Harris
Carol Simmons
Bogdan
Marth
Harti
Miss. Hearst
Vandals blamed for two fires in northeast city
Cedar Rapids fire officials investigate two Sunday blazes. A 3 43 a m fire at William Kvagh residence damaged a barn and contents including an antique car and sleigh. A second 3 05 a m fire at Donald Humphrey’s garage caused front damage and ransacked a pickup. Investigators linked both incidents to a roving group of vandals seen nearby and a car leaving prior to the barn fire. An additional nearby blaze may also involve the same youths. 20 years ago Bernart Matfaddell, 87, died.
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Dar
Cedar Rapids
Abon
Arizona Avenue
Humphrey
von Unning
Seven Injured in Cedar Rapids Weekend Accidents
Seven people were treated and released from St Luke's Hospital after multiple traffic incidents across Cedar Rapids weekend. Notable cases include Charles Kirkpatrick 63 and passenger Linda Morris 23 from a rear collision on First Avenue SE near Firat Drive, and injuries to Clint Mote 16 in a motorcycle crash on First Avenue. Other victims include Nancy Bader 19, Ma e Roberta 42, Kevin Moore 25, and Diane Lawin 32 in various two car and motorcycle crashes around Williams Boulevard Fifth Street SE and Edgewood Road NE. Police reported limited details for several accidents.
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Charles A. Kirkpatrick
Twenty-eighth Street Drive
Linda Morris
Luke
Firat Uveave
Thirtietherrest Drive
Kirkpatrick
Jewall Davidson
Second Avenue
Davidson
First Avenue
Cilnt Mote
Fifth Street
St. Luke's
Nancy Bader
Monticello
Kevin Moore
Marion
St. Luke's Hospital
Edgewood Road
Diane Lawin
Hillview Drive
Collins Road
Lindwe Road
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Hearst
Bernart Matfaddell
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Torr
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