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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Aug 07, 1994

Page

5

Editorial leadership names Elsen and Bowden

Elsen serves as editor of editorial pages while Mark Bowden is named managing editor. The announcement highlights new roles within the newsroom leadership structure and outlines responsibilities for opinion content and daily desk management.

Haunting anniversary on Gulf of Tonkin vote revisited

The piece reflects on the Aug. 7 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution granting Johnson authority to wage war in Southeast Asia. It contrasts public support then with decades of debate, notes 58 000 US deaths in Vietnam and 54 000 in Korea, and recalls 1982 Vietnam Veterans Memorial and shifting views of veterans.

FAO Gulf of Tonkin Lyndon B. Johnson Southeast Asia U.S Vietnam Saigon United States Indochina Dwight Eisenhower Normandy Burma Thailand Japan Formosa Taiwan Philippines Australia New Zealand France John F. Kennedy D-Mass Free World John Kennedy Eisenhower Kennedy Johnson Capitol Hill Congress House Senate Wayne Morse D-Ore Ernest Gruening Alaska LBJ Louis Harris Harris Gazette Korea Lyndon Johnson Richard Nixon Reagan Laos Cambodia Washington, D.C Lou Harris Lebanon Grenada Panama Kuwait Clinton Haiti

In Ukraine Kuchma's Era Acknowledges Reality and Risks

Political observer Borys Potiatynyk weighs Ukraine's path under President-elect Kuchma. He notes ties to Russia and Western resistance, warns of potential division or conflict, and suggests independence remains intact with possible Crimean stabilization amid broader Slavic dynamics. The piece reflects a cautious forecast from Lviv State University.

Ukraine Russia Soviet Union Leonid D. Kuchma Central Europe Black Sea Borys Potiatynyk Lviv State University Lviv The Gazette International Center For Community Journalism and Mass Communication Grinnell United States Information Agency

Hiroshima exhibit stirs debate as 50th anniversary nears

Greg Mitchell surveys the Smithsonian Enola Gay exhibit plan to display the Bomb’s victims and a Ground Zero room. Critics from Air Force veterans to Sen. Kassebaum call the approach evasive, while supporters defend its objective portrayal of Hiroshima’s legacy.

Greg Mitchell America Berlin U.S Pacific Leyte Gulf Philippines Iwo Jima Okinawa Hiroshima Nagasaki Normandy National Air and Space Museum Smithsonian Institution Museum Air Force Hugh Sidey Time Magazine Air Force Association Japan Nancy Kassebaum R-Kan Smithsonian Tom Crouch Can Truman Leslie Groves Mary McCarthy Ralph Lapp Energy Department Hazel O'Leary Manhattan Project New Mexico

Baseball Strike Threat Exposes Fans and Finance Clash

A reader argues MLB owners and players are pandering to profits while fans, taxpayers, and families bear the burden. He notes a 78 million pension dispute, high ticket costs, bond-floated ballparks, and disputes over salaries, caps, and postseason pay, warning a strike harms fans and the sport.

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