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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1983
Page
6
The Gazette notes 1982 arms contracts hit a record $21.4 billion and anticipate another peak. It argues exports aid balance and jobs while reducing U.S. defense burdens, but warns increased sales bring risk when ally regimes sour and calls for stronger congressional checks amid a post veto era.
The piece notes how Democratic replies to Reagan weekly radio messages often stray from the president’s topic. Last Saturday's reply, prepared beforehand, attacked wealth gaps while Reagan then addressed the dollar and Soviet China trade. The confusion echoes through headlines citing ONeill and inconsistent coverage.
A letter thanks Vanessa Shelton and many community groups for helping an elderly resident after a Social Security check was stolen. She credits the Council on Aging, St Vincent De Paul, the Salvation Army, and local churches for aid, gas money, air conditioning, medications, and driver education credits. She also comments on Central America policy and requests citizen correspondence to lawmakers.
The piece assesses Ronald Reagan’s viability for a second term as the 1980s close in. It weighs his age and leadership against future direction, notes shifting public sentiment, rising unemployment and poverty, and previews potential successors and party dynamics ahead of the election. It also questions his lack of a clear forward program.
The speaker notes it costs about $3 a day to feed a Marine and over $6 daily for a prisoner, criticizing air conditioning and cable TV for inmates and suggesting absurd allocations such as aiding foreign nations with grain and surplus bombs in case of war. The tone questions government spending and entitlement policies.
A Cedar Rapids premiere praises Risky Business for balance and appeal. It highlights Lucy Harrington in a playful walk on role and notes her Chicago modeling background as part of the film’s local talent charm.
A resident warns about a weak bridge near Mabie Road on the Ely blacktop, noting it carries school buses and heavy equipment during fall harvest and urging the county to repair it before an accident occurs.
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