Editorial: Auto Emissions Debate Tests Clean Air Resolve
The House Energy and Commerce Committee questions relaxed auto exhaust standards amid cost and health concerns. Rep. Tauke and Cedar Rapids civic groups urge keeping stricter rules, citing pollution, public health risks, and regional impact on cities like Dubuque and Cedar Rapids.
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House Energy and Commerce Committee
Tom Tauke
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
League of Women Voters
Energy and Commerce
John Dingell
Michigan
Dingell
Environmental Protection Agency
Costly free rides at Iowa: campus bus subsidy debate
An Iowa City editorial urges ending Cambus no fare policy. It argues state subsidy should stop until Cambus pays its own way, noting riders include non students and hospital workers. It favors fareboxes or passes for equity and revenue.
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University of Iowa
Campus
U of I
Point A
Point B
Cambus
Iowa City
Oakdale Hospital
Argentine Dinner Highlights U.S. Falklands Debacle
The Argentine Embassy hosted a dinner for Jeane Kirkpatrick as Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands, underscoring U.S. tolerance of Argentina's military regime. The piece critiques Reagan policy toward Argentina and notes Lord Carrington's resignation as NATO ally faces tougher diplomacy after the crisis.
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Boston
Washington
Jeane Kirkpatrick
U.S
United Nations
Argentina
Falkland Islands
Reagan
Kirkpatrick
Falklands
West
Lord Carrington
United States
NATO
Letters to The Gazette Mix Church Views and Personal Loss
Readers urge church restraint on alcohol at church events and share grief over Alison Zimmerman's death. The letter also critiques a Ground Zero peace group and warns of Soviet backed disarmament propaganda tied to U N disarmament sessions and American Opinion magazine references.
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Lois Buckley
John Gallagher
St. Joseph's
St. Joe’s
Alison Zimmerman
Ground Zero
World Peace Council
WPC
Soviet Union
U.S. Peace Council
Russia
American Opinion
Concord Ave
Belmont
Mass
Three Words in English End With Gry Puzzle Benches Details
A language trivia item cites three words ending in gry and notes aggry beads from Gold Coast Ghana England. Dr Eugene Maleska cites gry as obsolete and puggry as a variant of puggreg in his book A Pleasure in Words.
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Gold Coast
West Africa
Ghana
England
Eugene T. Maleska
The
New York Times
Dr. Maleska
Gazette Letter Guidelines for Submitting Opinions
The Gazette invites reader letters up to 400 words and requires writer name street address and signature. A non published telephone aids authentication. Letters should address issues and events not personalities and no verse is allowed. One letter per writer every 30 days.
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the Gazette
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Lowa
Congressional Research Service
General Motors
Ford
Chrysler
Clean Air Coalition
U.N. Commission On Human Rights
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Anthony Lewis
Haig
Robert Cox
U.S.S.R
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General Galtieri
Britain
Peter Carrington
U.S. Foreign Policy
Denise Bender
Grant Wood Area
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Congress
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U.N
Geneva
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Squaw Creek Park
Robert Ashley
Ripon College
Dr. Ashley
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