Great City Bus Shortage of 1979 and beyond hits Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids holds 20 new Easy Rider buses but keeps 20 older Flxibles as seven of 1965 models stay in service amid parts shortages. Fleet expands to 37 as five more GM buses are on order after a 12.7 percent ridership rise. Iowa City sees record bus use during energy crisis with hundreds of state passes sold, while only a small fraction claimed fringe benefits. The piece forecasts a national bus shortage in 1979 and beyond, noting limited production from GMC Flxible and Greyhound, high costs, and funding hurdles for federally supported fleets.
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Cedar Rapids
General Motors
Iowa City
Coralville
GMC
Grumman
Greyhound
New York City
Forests Lost Behind Cottage Grove Area In 1970
A former Gazette worker recalls living in a historic house at 2137 First Ave SE in a leafy area east of Cottage Grove Avenue and north of Washington High School. Returning this summer, he finds the neighborhood changed and unrecognizable.
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the Gazette
First Ave
Cottage Grove Avenue
Washington High School
Commentary on Progress Destroys Forests and Woods
In the editor's view the house was razed and the forest denuded in the name of progress. It laments the casual disposal of natural features and critiques the modern concept of progress as unsettling and careless.
Boost mopeds in view of fuel scarcity and safety
A letter argues for promoting mopeds over cars amid dwindling petroleum, urging minimal licensing and age restrictions. The writer compares mopeds to bicycles and motorcycles on safety, questions helmet mandates, and notes the greater danger cars pose to others while asserting mopeds rarely kill pedestrians or drivers.
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Gazette
Church's Cuba flap tests Senate stance on SALT II
The piece questions Senator Church Idaho's shift toward hawkish SALT II posture amid 3,000 Soviet troops in Cuba near Florida. It argues the Cuban presence does not invalidate SALT II and notes political pressure from the National Conservative Political Action Committee shapes Church's positions more than U.S. interests.
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Sen. Church of
Idaho
Florida
Cuba
U.S
Straits of Florida
Soviet Union
Sen. Baker
Kennedy
Khrushchev
Sen. Church
Thatcher aide hints at Ulster self rule plan
In London a Thatcher official described a forthcoming Northern Ireland initiative aimed at giving Ulster more local control while keeping final authority in Westminster. The piece notes mounting sectarian tension after Mountbatten’s murder, warns about Irish unity by consent, and discusses EU and Dublin dynamics with UK policy.
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London
Lord Mountbatten
Margaret Thatcher
St. James’s Park
Northern Ireland
Ulster
Mountbatten
Irish Republican Army
Lynch
Pattern of Soviet Book Bans Signals Cold War Tension
James J. Kilpatrick argues the Moscow book ban at the Moscow International Book Fair fits a larger Soviet pattern of censorship and coercion. He cites Helsinki Accords violations, visa refusals for Robert Bernstein, bans on Orwell and Solzhenitsyn, and broader repression aimed at testing Western resolve.
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Kremlin
Europe
Random House
Robert Bernstein
Andrei Sakharov
George Orwell
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Germany
China
Helsinki
Soviet Union
Public Access Ended on North Western Bridge
Resident questions barricades and no trespassing signs placed on the pedestrian side of the North Western railroad bridge after eight decades of open use. They worry a warning will drive walkers and cyclists to dangerous track areas and seek details on bridge cost and maintenance.
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North Western Railroad
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Art Heusinkveld
John Donnelly
John Robertson
American Motors
San Francisco
Bay Area
Mercedes
Ray Bagley
C.R
Detroit
Herbert H. Lehman
William Safire
National Conservative Political Action Committee
Church
Capitol Hill
John B. Oakes
Westminster
United Kingdom
Britain
Dublin
IRA Provisionals
Ireland
IRA
Conor Cruise O’brien
The
Observer of London
New York
Govenor Carey
Moynihan
O'Neill
Four Horsemen
Spiral Land
Irish Republic
Jack Lynch
Republic
New York Times Service
Oan Ono
Qdo
Moscow
By James J. Kilpatrick
Washington
Polonius
Leonid Brezhnev
Boris I. Stukalin
State Publishing Committee
Nicaragua
Afghanistan
Alexander Hoffman
Industry-wide Association of American Publishers
International Publishers Association
Per Sjogren
South Korea
Stukalin
Universal Press Syndicate
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