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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Dec 08, 1994

Page

5

Perry rules out Star Wars revival with robust sea and ground defenses

Defense Secretary William Perry dismissed GOP demands for a continental missile defense system. He pledged a robust budget for sea based and ground based defenses, while noting no current threat justifies a large deployment. He defended Haiti engagement as cost effective and unlikely turnover to UN peacekeepers before early 1995.

Washington William Perry Perry Congress United States Pentagon Defense Secretary Senate Bob Dole R-Kan Jesse Helms R-N.c Incom Foreign Relations Committee Haiti Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Poll on Welfare Perceptions Shows Support for Programs

A Washington AP report notes Americans overestimate welfare payments and favor higher poverty thresholds. The Independent Center survey for America’s War On Poverty finds 84 percent see a moral duty to help the poor and 80 percent want government action, with many supporting job programs over welfare cuts.

Washington PBS Independent Center For the Study of Policy Attitudes Steven Kull Center

Public Opinion on Minimum Wage and Poverty

Seventy three percent say $4.25 should rise, proposing $5.41. Eighty one percent believe most poor live in cities, though census shows 40 percent in urban areas. Sixty four percent feel poverty worsens, while seven percent see improvement.

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