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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1988
Page
6
Jerry Elsen serves as Editor of Editorial Pages while Editorial Board Chairman Dave Morris holds the role of Managing Editor.
The Gazette urges focus on Bush and Dukakis policies, not vice presidential sniping. Jesse Jackson’s plea for a clean campaign underscores the need for accountability on defense, economy, education, drugs, housing, and human rights as the race narrows toward November.
The Soviet central committee asked 19 American experts in veteran care to share ideas with Soviet counterparts on prosthetics wheelchairs and trauma. Conferences in Moscow and Leningrad next month include direct work with veterans. Reverend William Mahedy notes parallels across wars and the lasting impact of war on veterans.
Former Arizona Rep. John J. Rhodes argues George Bush’s selection of Dan Quayle as running mate harmonizes with Bush’s ideas and legacy. Rhodes praises Quayle’s record, broad appeal, and readiness to contribute to a future-oriented Republican administration.
The essay notes a trend away from force toward diplomacy with cease fires and withdrawals. It highlights Burma’s overthrow of a dictatorship, democracies surviving amid corruption, Haiti's weakness, and a pivotal change as Gorbachev reforms the Soviet system signaling a end to the infallibility of communism. If Gorbachev succeeds or fails remains secondary to the irreversible shift in ideology and governance.
Flora Lewis argues that open societies gain from reduced tensions and that democracy proves superior in everyday needs like food and health care. She cautions against complacency as information flows reveal Western flaws and urges the United States to pursue a gentler kinder nation for national security and global influence.
A reader condemns a St Andrew's Lutheran pastor as unfit to minister and calls him the anti Christ for supporting The Last Temptation of Christ. The writer defends biblical principles such as love humility and forgiveness and argues against judging others while admitting plans to view the film.
Commends Rep. Tom Tauke for cosponsoring an immunization compensation law. It compensates those injured by forced immunizations and limits producer liability. The measure helped curb disease comeback and reflects Tauke’s centrist, successful Congress record in 1986.
Aug 21 letter from Steve Valley defends his wife as an independent, capable businesswoman and mother. He states she speaks for herself, praises her courage, and says his success measures by family, not money. Valley thanks readers and affirms personal opinions.
A Cedar Rapids reader decries films like The Last Temptation as blasphemous amid a national disaster. The letter urges theater operators to refuse screening and voices concern over heat pollution harming crops and livestock.
Gary R. Wells claims the Department of Human Services forged lies, cost him his daughter, Cadillac, home, job, and savings. He says judges accept the lies and DHS pressured marriage. he asks a fair judge to return his child and end the ordeal.
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