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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1986
Page
6
The piece argues NASA should not face civil suits from Challenger crew families citing military liability rules. It condemns using litigation to settle national tragedy, stressing that fault cannot justify legal reckoning for service members. It warns that allowing lawsuits could destabilize defense funding and policy.
A Detroit News poll shows 74 percent of Michigan voters unlikely to back Pat Robertson if he wins the GOP nomination, 57 percent disapproval to 27 percent approval. Despite strong Robertson organization, analysts doubt broad voter support.
Chicago Cubs dismissed ballgirl Marla Collins after she posed nude for Playboy photographs. The move underscores the clash between team image and personal modeling work.
Washington notes that Daniel Manion has been confirmed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit covering Illinois Indiana and Wisconsin. The piece argues appellate judges need not be brilliant writers, predicts a long tenure, and praises reform minded clerks and technology to aid work.
A reader criticizes the Gazette for likely biased coverage of Jackson Browne's Friday July 25 concert. The writer notes the show was inspired and protests a reviewer may have misread the crowd and even misidentified a song title.
Local readers defend Virginia Folkers, daughter of a Marion Independent school board director, arguing parents are not responsible for adult offspring actions. They condemn the article as tasteless and request a public apology from the paper.
Reader condemns naming Mrs. Virginia Folkers, a Marion Independent school board member, in a Saturday report on sexual abuse involving two teenagers. The letter argues the piece crossed lines by linking a public figure to a private, developing family matter.
A Marion resident objects to naming Linda Folkers in a July 25 Gazette story. The editor notes the surname overlap with a public official justified the naming as a one time clarification, with no intent to malign.
A reader criticizes Kurt Rogahn’s concert review for misstatements and misspellings. Browne’s political statement against armaments and hunger drew an approving crowd, with only a few negative shouts possibly imagined by the reviewer.
On July 17 and 20, about 80 people from Masonville area gathered at Everette Van Note's farm to cut and rack 50 acres of hay and store it in barns. The relief effort followed the death of Van Note's wife Midge and his daughter's hospitalization after major surgery.
A reader cites an advertisement for a First Annual 4th of July Softball Spectacular and questions the term. The author defends first annual arguing AP rules allow it when the event is upcoming, while noting editors and teachers sometimes correct usage.
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