Reagan invitation prompts Iowa political plotting notes
The piece cites an invitation to News Cedar Rapids Gazette from Ronald Reagan urging support for the GOP Victory Fund. It discusses Reagan possible 1984 candidacy, Iowa appearances, and the GOP strategy to press for White House, Senate, and House gains, plus lottery veto fallout and state budget concerns.
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Ronald Wilson Reagan
United States
News
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Uist
Reagan
Jimmy Carter
Boonies
Washington
National Republican Congressional Committee
GOP
Iowa
Congress
Sen
Roger Jepsen
Frank J. Fahrenkopf Jr
Republican National Committee
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RNC
Fahrenkopf
White House
Senate
Branstads to present awards to hall of fame inductees
Four Iowa women will be inducted into the Iowa Women s Hall of Fame in a Wallace State Office Building ceremony. Gov. and Mrs. Branstad will present the awards sponsored by the Iowa Commission on the Status of Women. The event coincides with Women s Equality Day August 26, marking 1920 suffrage.
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Gazette
Des Moines Bureau
DES Moines
Iowa
Iowa Women’s Hall of Fame
Wallace State Office
Terry E. Branstad
Iowa Commission On the Status of Women
Bishop Dingman to Keynote Iowa UN Association Meeting
Roman Catholic Bishop Maurice J. Dingman of Des Moines will give the August 27 keynote at a planning meeting for the United Nations Association of Iowa fall program United Nations on Trial in a Nuclear World. He will speak on the Moral Challenge of Interdependence at the Amana Holiday Inn Williamsburg starting at 10 a.m. Call 337 7290 for details.
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Maurice J. Dingman
Des Moines
United Nations Association of Iowa
United Nations
Dingman
U.N
Williamsburg
Amana Holiday Inn
Republicans Choose Candidate In 36th Senate District
Republicans in Iowa's 36th Senate District set a special election for November 8 after Sen. Mick Lura resigned. They must choose Tuesday night between John Soorholtz and Steve Ford to challenge Democrat Rep. Tom Swartz, Marshalltown.
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Iowa
Mick Lura
Marshalltown
Terry Branstad
Tom Swartz
John Soorholtz
Melbourne
Steve Ford
Hurley Hall Leads Straw Poll for 1984 Iowa Race
State Sen. Hurley Hall D Marion won the Marion Democratic Ice Cream Social straw poll for the 1984 Iowa 2nd District U S House race. Hall captured 43 of 64 votes, Linn County Auditor Merle Kopel 16, Sen. Joe Welsh 1, with five write ins.
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D-Marion
Marion
Tom Tauke
R-Dubuque
Iowa
U.S
House of Representatives
Hall
Linn
Merle Kopel
Joe Welsh
D-Dubuque
Drake to require sophomores and athletes to live on campus
Drake University will require sophomores and scholarship athletes to reside on the Des Moines campus starting fall 1984. The school will convert some doubles to singles and offer lower rates to fill 1,757 beds as vacancies persist with 71 empty spaces noted at the August start.
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Iowa State University
University of Iowa
Drake University
Drake
Don Adams
Adams
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