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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1978
Page
8
A Harris poll of 1,259 adults finds a 54 percent majority willing to accept a 5 percent rise in food prices to aid farmer parity, while 68 percent oppose a 10 percent hike. Experts say even 10 percent would not achieve full parity, needing 18 to 20 percent and triggering higher costs for staples.
Bud Granoff, Chuck Barris Productions, says Des Moines KCCI's annulled Newlywed Game run drew 150 viewer complaints, while he touts the syndicated version as popular nationwide. He questions why Iowans reject titillating fare, contrasting with no complaints about I Claudius on Sunday public TV.
San Diego faces a drastic drop in property tax revenue if Proposition 13 Jarvis Initiative passes. The 1 percent cap could shrink city funding from 48 million to 19 million annually, threatening police, fire, and schools while politicians fear the impact. The measure awaits a June 6 vote with broad public support and widespread national implications.
The Panama Canal dispute pits Sen. Robert Dole and Sen. Howard Baker Jr. in a struggle over treaty terms. Baker negotiates with Panama to gain amendments on U.S. defense rights and priority ship passage, challenging Dole who seeks different concessions while avoiding extremist labels.
A humorous observation from a friend at the stables critiques moralists who revel in mental cruelty, arguing that hell is a moralists’ imagined heaven of self righteousness.
Washington columnist Roscoe Drummond notes four striking aspects of the Vietnam Cambodia war as a first intra communist full-scale conflict. He argues it exposes proxy dynamics with China and the USSR and highlights Tito era lessons on sovereignty and eurocommunist aims versus democracy. The piece links intra communist splits to wider global power struggles and cautions that de Russification does not equal democratization.
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