Gazette editorials favor deferring auto pollution and safety rules
The Gazette argues in favor of delaying EPA and NHTSA auto pollution and safety standards during inflation and high unemployment. It calls the deferral a necessary compromise, citing potential $1.4 billion industry savings and $9.4 billion for consumers over five years, while urging better industry quality to compete with foreign rivals when rules resume.
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Environmental Protection Agency
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Merit vs Merit in Reagan Supreme Court Nominees
The piece argues Reagan may revert to old boy network for 37 federal district judgeships despite Attorney General Smith stressing merit. It notes Carter appointed more women and minorities, but Reagan's pledge to judge by merit could still satisfy the Carter standard while avoiding single issue biases.
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Reagan
Carter
U.S
William French Smith
U.S. Supreme Court
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
Tamara Rand Fails To Predict Reagan Shooting
A psychic Tamara Rand claimed a March or April Reagan shooting on a videotape, but networks aired grave doubts about timing and believed no such tape existed before the event. Her claim followed John Hinckley’s March incident and criticized media accuracy in reporting the forecast.
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John Kennedy
Jeane Dixon
Reagan
Tamara Rand
Rand
Jack Humbley
Mr. Reagan
Jane
Ms. Rand
John Hinckley
Kennedy Distrusts Reagan Budget Aids and Speech Tug of War
Kennedy extends his anti Reagan stance on budget cuts and social programs. He criticizes arms sales to Saudi Arabia and support for El Salvador while signaling possible 1984 presidential thoughts. The veteran Democrat argues for a broader policy debate and warns of unfinished reform on inflation and taxation.
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Washington
Senate
Reagan
Sen
Edward M. Kennedy
Capitol
Foreign Relations
Armed Services Committees
Kennedy
el Salvador
Saudi Arabia
Moscow Union
South Africa
Ronald Reagan
POW MIA awareness and public response urged by Iowa readers
Letters urge action on remaining POWs and MIAs despite the 1973 Paris Treaty. Ralph Marshall of Miles leads a Southeast Asia inquiry, urging Congress and the president to prioritize releases, with Purple Ribbon Day and public education efforts noted. The correspondence also includes a critique of morning newspaper delivery changes and a debate on abortion ethics, urging accountability and informed views.
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Iowa Legionnaire
League of Families
Southeast Asia
UPI
Seattle
North
Vietnam
Ralph Marshall
Miles
Iowa
American Legion Committee
American Legion
Leonard Read
Morning paper solves weekly delay for country readers
Timester I revels in becoming a morning paper, ending the Sunday to Saturday delay for country readers. Now Monday through Friday issues arrive earlier, letting locals catch sales, job notices, and Hawks coverage the day after publication.
Helpful Good Samaritans Fix Tire At Bank Lot
On a Friday morning at Peoples Bank in a Third Avenue SW lot two young men waved for a space and helped an driver with a flat tire. They refused pay and left after securing the car, prompting gratitude for the community’s good young people.
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Peoples Bank
Third Avenue SW
Outlooks column clarifies delegate power via plank support
In Paul A. Smiths Outlooks column April 6, a line was dropped from the next-to-last paragraph. It should read a simple proven way to give delegates to a large convention a larger measure of power is to prioritize platform planks according to the net percentage support the delegates give the planks i e the percentage of all delegates voting yes minus the percentage voting no.
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Paul A. Smith
Right or wrong grammar waves in a veteran columnist column
A veteran columnist admits errors in subject verb agreement and adverb placement. Gilbert Maas and others critique sentences such as the plural article versus singular verb and the double adverb usage, urging simplified phrasing like increasing frequency.
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Gilbert Maas
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