Railpax plans face grim Iowa passenger future along quiet lines
The note critiques Railpax on the dismal prospects for passenger rail across southern Iowa, while highlighting ongoing public costs from freight traffic on Cedar Rapids Fourth Street. It urges balanced solutions like altered freight timing to ease downtown gridlock and improve property values and tax revenue.
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Railpax
trans-Iowa
Burlington Northern
Iowa
Fourth Street
Cedar Rapids
Iowa Senate urged to study past auto plate savings before three year licenses
The Iowa Senate is urged to review 1947 1948 1950 1953 1954 1955 corner tab license plate trials to assess potential savings before considering a three year plate bill. Officials note prior attempts failed despite cost aims of extra tabs. Records exist but are not readily available.
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Iowa Senate
Department of Public Safety
Alfred Kahl
Iowa Automobile Dealers Association
Iowa
Senate
Agnew Ted, HHH on Rise By Roscoe Drummond
Washington notes changes in Republican and Democratic races as Hubert Humphrey climbs in polls and joins Muskie and Kennedy on the Dem shortlist. Nixon keeps options open with Agnew as possible running mate and questions of a second term surface amid party splits.
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Hubert Humphrey
D-Minn
Minnesota
Edmund Muskie
D-Me
Sen
Edward Kennedy
D-Mass
Kennedy
Muskie
Humphrey
Teddy
G.O.P
Agnew
Nixon
F.D.R
John Garner
Henry Wallace
Vietnam
U.S
Life-Science Ethics Movement Expands Across Fields
The life sciences ethical movement grows with scientists, doctors, theologians, and lawmakers debating moral issues from heart transplants to cloning. Groups like the Institute of Society Ethics and the Life Sciences in Hastings on Hudson and the Institute of Religion in Houston foster interdisciplinary study as lawmakers push a national advisory commission to examine biology and medicine’s social impact.
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York
James Watson
Walter F. Mondale
Dminn
Senate
National Advisory Commission On
Health Science and Society
J. Russell Elkinton
Annals of Internal Medicine
American Friends Service Committee
Beethoven
Raquel Welch
Hitler
Stitutes
Hastingson-Hudson
N. Y
Institute of Society, Ethics and the Life Sciences
Institute
Daniel Callahan
Institute of Religion
Houston
Texas Medical Center
St. Louis University
Leon Kass
National Academy of Sciences
Paul Ramsey
Princeton University
Georgetown Medical School
Kass
Robert Francoeur
Farleigh Dickinson University
Mondale
Callahan
Dr. Kass
Dr. Elkinton
Voices on war experts andVietnam reflections
Readers discuss instant experts on war and the Vietnam conflict with anecdotes from My Lai to Chu Lai. Letters question media truth, accountability, and the soldier experience while urging safer driving and jaywalk awareness.
Letter to the Editor on Vietnam War and Lt Calley
A reader denounces U S involvement in Vietnam while alleging Lt William Calley was railroaded and used as a scapegoat by the U S Army in a March 29 1971 frame. The letter is signed by Craig S Struve of 217 LaSalle drive SW.
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William Calley
Lt. Calley
Americal
Chu Lai
Vietnam
John R. Goslin
Linwood Street
United States
United States Army
Craig S. Struve
LaSalle Drive
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Jane E. Brody
Edward B. Fiske
Center For Human Values In the Health Sciences
San Francisco
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New York Times News Service
the People's Forum
Rome
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