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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1978
Page
2
The Red Cross warns Iran's big quake may total 16,000 dead or injured. Korit near Tabas is the epicenter with most residents hurt or dead. A C 130 crash at Tehran airport kills nine, injures four. Water shortages strain relief in Tabas while mass burials proceed.
Imants Lishinskys and his wife and daughter defected to the United States from the United Nations in New York City. The State Department confirmed the defectors, noting Lishinskys was granted permission to stay in the country with his family.
AFL-CIO leader Meany urged President Carter to abandon voluntary wage and price guidelines, arguing they victimize workers. United Steelworkers president McBride said he wants to see the administration's anti inflation plan before taking a stand. Meany warned the program could curb wage gains without curbing prices.
Conservative Republicans join opponents in a rare coalition to challenge the natural gas compromise. They acknowledge near-certain defeat in the initial Senate showdown vote while signaling continued opposition and strategy.
Mexican air traffic controllers ended a two day walkout after a temporary government settlement. The pilots union said substitutes in towers were unsafe, canceling hundreds of flights on Sunday and Monday while some foreign carriers kept limited service. Meanwhile a tropical storm threatened flooding across Honduras Guatemala and Belize with heavy rains and Belize City waters rising.
Greta crossed Belize and weakened to a tropical storm with winds near 70 mph. The storm wrecked hundreds of huts on Honduras north coast but no casualties reported. centers in northern Guatemala, moving west at 10 to 15 mph, with diminishing strength and a warning about the moon.
The notice lists telephone numbers for news sports bookkeeping and general information with office hours. It includes Circulation Subscription Ads Display Advertising and city office contacts with various area codes and times. The entries appear to be a local newspaper information page for caller access.
Government investigator Thomas Bingham charges BP and Shell with breaking Rhodesia trade sanctions for years. He says governments under Wilson and Heath condoned the actions through ignorance but could have learned the truth. Extracts from a 600 page report were released ahead of Foreign Office publication.
Showers tonight over the Great Plains Rockies Ohio Valley and lower Florida with fair to partly cloudy elsewhere. Mississippi River stages listed for LaCrosse Lansing Dam McGregor Guttenberg Dubuque Davenport Keithsburg Keokuk Clinton Cedar Rapids and more. Birth notices include Mercy Sept 18 and Independence Big Fork New Ulm and Portsmouth births with numerous Cedar Rapids families named.
Fidel Castro denied Cuban involvement in JFKs assassination calling any plot insane both ideologically and politically. He said no one in Cuba proposed harming the U.S. president and suggested such a move would invite U.S. invasion. Castro asserted he learned of Oswald only after the assassination.
On this date in 1973 baseball star Willie Mays said he would retire at age 42. The report cites an intelligence claim about Oswald and Cuban officials, with Blakey noting Cuban authorities blamed the CIA as a disinformation tactic and that no judgment on the source’s reliability has been made.
AP reports the single engine plane carrying Lillian Carter landed safely at Wichita Mid-Continent Airport after pilot James Smith warned of possible landing gear trouble. Smith described the 80 year old as very gracious as she traveled from Pittsburg and Emporia to Wichita for Don Allegrucci's congressional campaign.
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