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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1983
Page
6
Black vote turnout drives 1984 political leverage
The Gazette notes Chicago black voters boosted Harold Washington's mayoral win and sent a nationwide message: high turnout matters for minority influence. Houston showed a similar pattern against GOP candidates, with blacks guiding key races and spurring 1984 focus on jobs, growth, and racial equality amid near‑unity Democratic support among Afro-Americans.
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Harold Washington
Chicago
Houston
U.S
Mickey Leland
Bill Clements
Mark White
Reagan
FAA chief Helms grilled over costly flights
Congress questions J Lynn Helms over flight choices and high costs citing GAO findings. He defends private jet use as necessary to monitor air traffic control while acknowledging commercial flights in some cases. Critics urge cost saving and humility, suggesting cheaper radios and local training as alternatives.
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Helms
General Accounting Office
Congress
FAA
Tennessee
Washington
New York
America
Return to Cold War nears in Central America
A US political column argues the Soviet Union and Cuba extend military aid to Nicaragua and Cuba, boosting Cuba with billions in support and large troops. It warns Congress worries about US aid to El Salvador and Nicaragua, suggesting a Brezhnev Doctrine-style shift toward a communist Central America and broader regional instability.
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Soviet Union
Middle East
U.S
Angola
Ethiopia
Yemen
Cambodia
Nicaragua
el Salvador
Afghanistan
Poland
Kremlin
Helsinki
Cuba
Moscow
United States
Latin America
PLO
Central America
Congress
Vietnam
Costa Rica
Panama
Letters to The Gazette on Cold War, taxes, and judges
readers debate Gromyko and Soviet secrets contrast with U.S. tax withholding plans and Sylvia Porter's column. Criticism sharpens on abortion foes, Equal Rights Amendment, and federal judges, with warnings about political consequences, bank secrecy, and potential court-led policy shifts.
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America
World Council of Churches
Catholic Council of Bishops
Boiling Point of the Silent Majority Emerges in Tax Fight
A public rhetoric frames the silent majority as awakening against perceived unjust taxes. It calls for organized action across communities, demanding fair shares from the rich and warning targeted culprits to beware as the boiling point nears.
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Congress
Gazette Letters Guidelines and Submission Rules
The Gazette invites reader letters up to 400 words with edits as needed. Include writer name street address and signature, and a non published telephone for authentication. Anonymous letters are not published. Focus on issues and events rather than individuals. One letter per writer every 30 days, no verse.
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John Donnelly
John Robertson
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South
House of Representatives
George Wallace
Wallace
Montgomery
Emory Folmar
Mississippi
Robert Green
Louisiana
Federal Aviation Administration
J. Lynn Helms
George Will
Grenada
Africa
Mexico
Bulgaria
William Shenstone
Brezhnev
Iran
Rio Grande
Iron Curtain
Andrei Gromyko
Gromyko
White House
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Yugoslavia
Lech Walesa
Walesa
Pravda
Tass
Izvestia
Vienna
Switzerland
Czechoslovak National Council of America
Sylvia Porter
Sylvia
Washington, D.C
U.S. Health and Services Agency
Helen Keller
Gary Coleman
Itzhak Perleman
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