Iowa Tax Reform Debate Highlights House Senate Split
House resists a 5 percent sales tax while aiming to cut income tax brackets to three and top rate to 9 percent. Senate plan sets rates at 4.6 and 10.5 percent with a sales tax increase. Gov Branstad seeks two brackets 2 and 6 percent and federal deductibility. Avenson hopes for conference committee and mid ground to win governor approval balances equity and business appeal.
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Senate
Terry Branstad
House
Branstad
Avenson
Fire burns at ethane propane cavern. 180 firefighters aid
A tank at Mid America facility released a volatile vapor after a compressor spark. Fire chiefs coordinate 12 departments and 180 area firefighters to cool and control the blaze with water from Iowa City. Evacuees returned as authorities assess damage and liability.
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Ball
West Branch
Richard Stoolman
Stoolman
Iowa City
Hughes
American Legion
Mid ‘America
Mid America
Mid -America
Embassy spy case widens as guards tied to Soviet women face charges
U S officials cite three indictments and a widening probe into Moscow embassy security. Lonetree Bracy and Stufleb eam face espionage and fraternization charges amid allegations Weirick Weinick and others passed access to Soviet agents. Pentagon notes the probe implicates Leningrad and Rome embassies.
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Vladimir Petrovsky
U.S
Moscow
Shultz
Reagan
Congress
Washington Emassy
United States
William Roth
Pentagon
Sims
Werrick Beyond
Leningrad
Weirick
Lonetree
Clayton Lonetree
Cpl
Arnold
Bracy
Robert Stuflebeam
Marine Corps
Weinick
Rome
Teen helps police collar Cedar Rapids theft suspect
A 17-year-old girl awakened to a man rifling her purse and, after noting prior abuse, alerted authorities. She and her brother traced the suspect to a bus ticket to Ashland Kentucky. Eddie Robert Dmitruk, 19, was arrested at the Ground Transportation Center and charged with theft and warrants, held on $6,900 bond.
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Cedar Rapids
Ground Transportation Center
Ashland
Eddie Robert Dmitruk
GTC
Dmitryk
Linn County
Webster faces Senate confirmation amid Iran Contra scrutiny
Webster’s Senate prospects look bright despite criticism of his handling of investigative documents. He told lawmakers he would drop Cabinet rank for the CIA director to reduce political perception and assured one on one access with Reagan if confirmed.
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Committee
David Boren
D-Okla
Webster
Senate
Reagan
CIA
William Casey
North
FBI
Mary Lawton
Department of Justice
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