Hart campaign debt disputes highlight ethics in politics
The piece notes U.S. marshals seized $30,000 from Gary Hart’s 1988 campaign fund at a Los Angeles fundraiser while 1984 debts linger, totaling about $162,754 with 18 percent interest. It argues creditors were misled by separate entities and questions honesty and personal integrity in campaign finance practices.
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Gary Hart
U.S
Los Angeles
Hart
Americans With Hart Inc
Walter Mondale
Friends
Iowa student Ortega appeal over dismissal of falsifying public documents case
Johnson County prosecutions appeal a judge's dismissal of University of Iowa student David J. Ortega charged with making fake Oregon state licenses. Judge Kilburg ruled blank licenses are not public documents, tossing the falsifying charges despite evidence of intent to sell to underage patrons. The county argues the ruling ignores motive and punishes law enforcement.
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Johnson County
David J. Ortega
UD i
Ortega
University of Iowa
Oregon
Paul Kilburg
Kilburg
Oregon Department of Transportation
Readers share views on management, politics and reform
Letters cover business overstaffing and wage gaps, PAC influence, and a call for Congressional campaign finance reform. Signi Falk of 1846 C Ave NE Iowa urges clarification from candidates and points to Common Cause proposals for spending limits, money limits, and public financing.
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Congress
Senate
Congressional
Citizens’ Lobby
John Gardner
Common Cause
Signi Falk
C Ave. NE
Local reader thanks Dyersville firm for toy replacement
Jill Collingham of Nottingham England thanks Eric from Dyersville for sending a replacement toy after her son broke his on his birthday January 9. She notes the swift gesture and asks if a British company would respond similarly while praising Eril.
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Eric
Dyersville
Nottingham
Eril
Commentary on modern fundamentalism and a noted transcription error
The piece critiques right wing fundamentalist figures like Oral Roberts Swaggart and Falwell for militant rhetoric and huge church wealth. It mentions a disputed claim about a money deadline and references a corrected Outlooks column about flowers and a March Ides note linking Julius Caesar’s assassination to calendar changes.
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Oral Roberts
Jimmy Swaggart
Jerry Falwell
Oral
FCC launches radio indecency crackdown to enforce 1927 law
Universal Press Syndicate notes the FCC will tighten enforcement of the 1927 Radio Act provision banning obscene language on radio. The piece recalls the 1973 Carlin Seven Dirty Words case and the 1978 Supreme Court debates, asserting the FCC may sanction indecent broadcasts while protecting free speech.
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Washington
Congress
United States
Federal Communications Commission
Commission
Henry Pennies
American Civil Liberties Union
Barry Lynn
ACLU
FCC
Supreme Court
High Court
New York
George Carlin
John Paul Stevens
Burger
William Rehnquist
Toto
Howard Stern
Philadelphia
Stern
Justice Stevens
Jackson appeals beyond race with call for economic justice
Jesse Jackson drew largely white audiences at Drake University and in Iowa by framing his bid around economic justice for workers, farmers, and the poor, not only racial issues. He argues Wall Street profits and jobs leaving the country threaten Main Street, urging unified action against foreclosures and plant closures.
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New York
Jesse Jackson
Drake University
Des Moines
Jackson
Selma
Birmingham
South
Drake
Iowa
Fifth Avenue
Texas
Arkansas
Mississippi
Ronald Reagan
America
Wall Street
Jimmy Carter
Gary Hart
Minnesota
Montana
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James Kilpatrick
Universal Press Syndicate
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