Hawkeyes Plan Homecoming Festivities at Iowa City
The University of Iowa sets Homecoming with a 1:30 p.m. Saturday game vs Ohio State Buckeyes at Kinnick Stadium and a Friday 6:30 p.m. downtown parade. Nick Meyer leads as parade marshal. events include a pep rally, corn monument float rides, king and queen drawings, and multiple campus open houses and concerts from Thursday through Saturday featuring the Dolphin Club water show the Old Gold Singers Beach Boys and various college activities.
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Bucks
University of Iowa
Hawkeyes
Ohio State Buckeyes
Kinnick Stadium
U of I
Nick Meyer
Bob Cummings
Clinton Street
Iowa Avenue
the Dolphin Club
Field House
Old Gold Singers
Clapp Recital Hall
Beach Boys
U of I Alumni Association and Foundation
Debate Over Canal Treaties Sparks Senate Hearing
Admiral Thomas Moorer warned that ratification could allow Soviet or Cuban entrenched influence in Panama as hearings opened on the plan to transfer canal control to Panama by 2000. General Maxwell Taylor supported the treaties, citing national and hemispheric advantages.
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Washington
UPI
Panama
Thomas Moorer
Moorer
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Maxwell Taylor
JCS
Nobel Peace Prizes Awarded to Amnesty International and Northern Ireland Activists
The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the 1977 prize to Amnesty International for its global campaign against violence and torture. It retroactively honors Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan, Belfast activists from the Northern Ireland Peace Movement, who had received a People's Peace Prize last year. The committee noted decades of human rights advances amid rising brutality and international violence.
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Norway
UPI
Nobel Committee
Amnesty International
Northern Ireland
Betty Williams
Mairead Corrigan
Belfast
United Nations
No accord on death penalty in Iowa conference
A Des Moines conference on Iowa capital punishment drew disagreement among experts and lawmakers. Prof. George Kirkham urged selective reinstatement for felony murders while Nebraska’s Ernie Chambers condemned any deterrent value and urged abolition. Governor Ray remained opposed as Drake University hosted the session.
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John Mathew
Iowa Daily Press Assn
Des Moines
Iowa
George Kirkham
Florida State University
Kirkham
United States
Nebraska
Ernie Chambers
Chambers
Doug Smalley
Lee Gaudineer
Drake University
C. Walter Clark
Clark
Robert D. Ray
Iowa Humanities Board
Iowa Weather Update From United Press International
Cloudy and colder weather expected across Iowa with light rain likely tonight. North regions may see a change to light snow late tonight and early Tuesday, while the south could see light rain and colder conditions into Tuesday. Lows in the 30s. highs Tuesday upper 30s north and 40s in the south.
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United Press International
Iowa
Theater manager named for Des Moines drive-ins
Leroy Pratt co-owner of the State and Waco Drive-in Theatres names Jim Gray of Des Moines as manager. Gray has spent seven years in Iowa United Theatres home office and served as buyer and booker for the circuit. The corporate office moved to Washington and Gray also runs Exhibitors Purchasing Agency.
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Leroy Pratt
Des Moines
Waco Drive-in
Jim Gray
Gray
Iowa United Theatres
Washington
Plan fire drill for EDITH observance in Washington
Washington fire department to cooperate in the annual EDITH Plan Fire Drill on Wednesday Oct 12 at 7 pm. Fire trucks will tour streets as a reminder to residents to plan quick exits. Residents urged to light porches to show steps taken and to obtain safety guidance from the fire department or Extension office.
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Washington
Beaten teen found dead in ditch near Burlington Iowa
The severely beaten body of a girl believed to be in her early teens was discovered Sunday in a ditch along old Highway 61 south of Burlington. Authorities had not identified her by late Sunday and the cause of death remained undetermined.
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Burlington
Iowa
UPI
Airbag safety criticism surfaced amid NHTSA test suppression
Detroit News reports NHTSA suppressed unfavorable airbag test results and pressured scientist Thomas H. Glenn to testify that results were inconclusive. Investigators say tests by Calspan showed airbags threatened lives in four 30 mph crashes, with multiple cadavers and dummies exceeding safety limits. Glenn faced harassment after placing results in the public docket.
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API
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Detroit News
Today the News
Washington
Thomas H. Glenn
NHSTA
Congress
NHTSA
Glenn
John Dingell
D-Mich
Dingell
House
Senate
Transportation
Brock Adams
Calspan
Buffalo
N.Y
Russians abort Soyuz 25 space flight after docking failure
The Soyuz 25 mission with Vladimir Kovalenok and Valery Ryumin was aborted near the Salyut 6 station after an automatic docking attempt failed at 120 yards. The crew began preparing for return to Earth as officials cited deviations from the docking plan. The mission, launched a day earlier, was seen as a space spectacle tied to Sputnik 1 and the 60th anniversary of the Russian Revolution.
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UPI
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Soyuz 25
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Kovalenok
Ryumin
Lance denies knowledge of funds in Georgia bank
Bert Lance said he knew nothing about about $1 million in federal savings deposits reportedly placed in the National Bank of Georgia while he served as budget director. Bank officials noted the deposits were not unusual and warned Newsday’s comparison may be apples and oranges.
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UPI
Bert Lance
National Bank of Georgia
NBG
Long Island
N.Y
Newsday
Atlanta
Lance
Georgia
First United Methodist Church
Treasury Department
U.S. District Court For
Ben Carter
Machinists strike at Lockheed plants across three sites
More than 15,000 machinists walked out at Lockheed California plants in Burbank and Palmdale and at the Sunnyvale Missiles and Space facility, halting work on L1011 TriStar jets, two navy patrol planes and the Trident missile. Workers at a Georgia plant voting to stay on the job. negotiators seek a new pact.
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Calif
Palmdale
Lockheed Missile and Space Company
Sunnyvale
No fountain of youth oxygen therapy questioned by study
A National Institute of Mental Health study argues that hyperbaric oxygen treatment for senility provides only brief stimulation. About 82 elderly participants showed mixed results with oxygen. some improved on memory tests, but air yielded similar gains. Lead researcher Allen Raskin notes two martinis may offer comparable temporary boosts.
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UPI
National Institute of Mental Health
Archives of
General Psychiatry
NIMH
Raskin
Robert Butler
National Institute On Aging
Consumers Digest
Picket lines form as New Orleans docks stay shut
Dock workers at the Port of New Orleans extend a general strike, hoping other ports join. ILA President Thomas Gleason says the move won’t spread, citing local politics and a union strategy. The port handles about $3 billion in cargo yearly and has been closed for over a week.
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UPI
International Longshoreman’s Association
ILA
Thomas Gleason
New York
Gleason
Executive Council
Mississippi
East
Gulf
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