Debt deal faces skeptics as deficit outlook shifts
Congressional Budget Office director Robert D. Reischauer cautions the package will yield substantial savings but warns early 1990s deficits will be large. He notes 1991 and 1992 deficits around 253 and 262 billion dollars before savings take hold, with the long term debt exceeding 3 trillion.
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Ways and Means Committee
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Rostenkowski
Chamber of Commerce
Congressional Budget Office
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Reishchauer
Reagan
Skein
Reischauer
Bush
Christmas heroism and theft stir American goodwill
A Waterbury truck driver, Ameen El-Massri, risked his life rescuing a motorist from a frozen pond on December 17, but his coat and $370 unemployment payout were stolen. News of his bravery sparked donations, prayers, and interview offers, underscoring a trend of neighborly generosity during the holidays.
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Waterbury
Conn
Ameen El-Massri
El-Massri
China Prisoners Release Warns U S Congress In 1991
A.M. Rosenthal warns that China plans to release many political prisoners in early 1991 while keeping leaders jailed. He urges Congress to demand steps before renewing tariff privileges, citing human rights abuses, forced labor, and limited press freedoms in China.
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Buuuss
China
Richard Schiffer
Beijing
Washington
U.S
Tibet
New York Times
World Bank
Tiananmen Square
New York Times Service
First Amendment defenses face critics and calls for limits
Steven Helle argues that criticisms of the news media should not erode First Amendment protections. He cautions against government-tinkering limits and urges broader reading, noting universities and others penalize speech. He emphasizes speech as a risky, essential experiment defended by the framers.
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Si Frumkin
Frumkin
Winston Churchill
de Klerk
Jesse Jackson
James Madison
Congress
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Cedar Rapids Christmas Tree Ceremony Becomes Annual
Nick Gearhart of Greater Downtown Cedar Rapids thanks Parks Commissioner David Kramer and many volunteers for lighting a 25 foot tree donated by the Gardemanns and passed to the Greater Downtown Association at the Ground Transportation Center. The event decks 1,500 lights with support from SCI and Munson Electric and aims to become an annual celebration.
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David Kramer
Ground Transportation Center
Niles
Diane Gardemann
Greater Downtown Association
Ron Harrieson
Gardemanns
Coonrod
Virgil Coonrod
Mel Meyer
Paul Wilson
John Strain
John
Knapp
SCI
Ole Munson
Munson Electric
Pete Post
Ssmid Commission
Transit
Bill Hoekstra
GTC
Greater Downtown
Nick Gearhart
Cedar Rapids
City Transit Back Pay Wins Christmas Thanks to Labor Official
Kathy Emmert of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 638 thanks Tom Lammers of the Labor Wage and Hour Division for an investigation and Transit Director William Hoekstra for urging compliance with federal law. Back pay dating from June 1988 was repaid to city bus drivers, arriving in time for Christmas.
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Tom Lammers
William Hoekstra
Lammers
Hoekstra
Slob hunting raises calls for tighter laws and enforcement
A writer urges readers to contact state legislators to curb unethical hunting practices such as using motor vehicles to coordinate with hunters, parking on roads, long range rifles and CB radios during hunts. The plea requests opinions on allowing center-fire rifles with two mile ranges and CB radios while hunting. The aim is stronger penalties and effective reforms.
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William Brennan
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