Record heat and heavy rainfall hit Iowa stateswide
Showers and thunderstorms moved across northern Iowa on Friday evening easing some heat with Des Moines posting a new state high of 104 and Ottumwa 102 while Burlington tied 96. Northeast Iowa faced extreme rainfall causing mud slides and road washouts with one gravel road limited to one lane.
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Reagan pledges faster equity drive for women
President Reagan vowed to accelerate the effort to identify and revise laws that discriminate against women. He directed the Justice Department and Cabinet Council to return with concrete recommendations upon his return from vacation. The move follows Barbara Honegger’s critique of the project as a sham and her calls for a more forceful federal review.
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Iowa announces statewide tax equalization shifts agriculture up 19 percent
Iowa Revenue Director Gerald Bair ordered a 19 percent average rise in agricultural property values statewide. Urban residential values drop about 1.5 percent while commercial realty rises under 0.5 percent. The move marks 15 years since urban residential values declined and highlights wide county differences across 99 counties.
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King March May Be Largest Washington Demonstration
Twenty years after Martin Luther King Jr s rally thousands of blacks and whites converge on Washington to push for a national King holiday and demand peace jobs and freedom Mayor Andrew Young calls the march a turning point Ruben Zamora a El Salvador leftist was denied a visa shaping a tone critical of President Reagan Organizers and police expect the crowd before the Lincoln Memorial to surpass the 1963 civil rights gathering at 200000 plus.
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Tate 4 Conscience Quote About Wrongdoing
A short quotation suggests conscience deters enjoyment of wrongdoing rather than preventing the act itself. The line emphasizes moral restraint as a guide to behavior.
Andropov offers to destroy missiles in Europe if talks succeed
In Moscow Yuri Andropov proposed liquidating all Soviet medium-range missiles in Europe if U S negotiations confirm a mutually acceptable deal. He tied the move to Washington renouncing deployment of new missiles in Europe and restated the pledge to dismantle remaining weapons.
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