Miller Denies Ties With Korea Lobbyist Inquiry
Former Iowa Senator Jack Miller now a federal judge in Washington denies helping South Korea lobbyist Tongsun Park amid a Justice Department probe into Park's alleged influence buying. Miller recalls limited contact since 1973 and says he may have written a congratulatory letter to Park Chung Hee at Park Park’s possible request.
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Tongsun Park
Justice Element
Miller
Justice Department
Korea
Park Chung Hee
Washington Post
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Chung Hee
Congress
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Vietnam
Senate
Thomas
Tip) O’neill
Dmass
Bet on pari mutuel racing bill heads to Senate floor
Iowa bills to legalize pari mutuel betting on horses and to create a statewide land use policy move forward. A racing bill would authorize one track run by a nonprofit as an experiment, while the land use measure calls for temporary county commissions to craft local policies and advise a statewide plan within 30 months.
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Natural Resources Committee
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Turner Pursues Wehr Probe and Seeks Resignation
Iowa Attorney General Richard Turner reengaged the Ned Wehr investigation, retrieving the BCI report from Judge Nathan Grant and briefing Davenport officials. Turner says Wehr will resign, but he declines to rule on wrongdoing, citing lack of opportunity for Wehr to defend himself.
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Iowa
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Scott County
Ned Wehr
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Turner
Maquoketa
Iowa Bureau of Criminal Investigation
Scotty County
Nathan Grant
County Board of Supervisors
BCI
Grant
Davenport
Lester Schick
Magistrates Appointed for Benton County Two-Year Terms
Vinton's Wendell Edwards and Newhall attorney David Weichman were named part time magistrates for two years starting July 1 after the Benton county judicial magistrate appointing commission met last week. The move follows Iowa Supreme Court statistics granting two part-time magistrates. ON THIS DATE in 1220 work began on Salisbury Cathedral in England.
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Wendell Edwards
Atty
David Weichman
Newhall
Benton County
Iowa Supreme Court
Salisbury
England
Neu prompts Iowa volunteers with life of service
Lt. Gov Arthur Neu urged Sioux City volunteers to keep filling in for absent officials and to push legislators to volunteer or step back. Senate commerce committee members quipped about the prepaid funeral business, with Hill calling for deeper digging, Burroughs joking about being in a hole, and Robinson labeling it a dead issue.
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Arthur Neu
Sioux City
Iowa
Neu
Iowa Senate
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D-Newton
Cliff Burroughs
R-Greene
Cloyd Robinson
Cedar Rapids
Feticide Law Sent to House
Des Moines Iowa. The senate approved 40 to 6 a bill to conform the feticide law to a recent supreme court opinion by tying the ban to viability rather than a fixed 20 week limit. The measure makes third trimester abortions felonies unless necessary to save the mother or fetus life or health and sends it to the house.
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