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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1989
Page
6
Jerry Elsen serves as Editor of Editorial Pages and remains a key editorial voice. Dave Morris is appointed Editorial Board Chairman and continues as Managing Editor overseeing newsroom strategy and operations.
Editorial urges Defense Secretary Carlucci and Congress to approve a 11-state plan to close or realign 145 domestic installations. It argues ongoing savings of nearly 700 million annually by trimming obsolete facilities, notes mixed support in Congress, and questions overseas bases, urging decisive action from Carlucci, the House, the Senate, and President Bush.
The piece argues Ronald Reagan was a masterful pitchman who dominate television and public image while presiding over a weaker economy and increased debt. It contends his defense and foreign policies failed to deliver lasting strength and that his rhetoric masked serious policy shortcomings. The author suggests his successor George H. W. Bush would inherit these legacies.
The author critiques the Bush campaign tactics and calls for global action on overpopulation. They warn that limited debate masked falsehoods and urge international cooperation to address climate change, ozone loss, deforestation, and escalating habitat destruction driven by human population growth.
A Dec 27 letter defends euthanizing strays as a necessary nuisance in rural areas while blaming owners for lost pets and urging responsibility. A Dec 21 editorial on fetal research draws sharp rebuke, labeling abortion as immoral and critiquing use of fetal material for science and profit.
The Wyoming Legislature may revisit a 21 year old drinking age after federal highway funds pressure. Studies from Tennessee and JAMA show a 38 percent drop in nighttime single vehicle fatalities among 19 and 20 year olds after the age was raised, supporting the merit of the policy despite political pushback.
A reader from Iowa notes Donald Kaul’s Dec 26 column misidentified Congressman Barney Frank as from New York. The writer agrees with Kaul on Frank’s liberalism and urges correcting his home state to Massachusetts.
A reader thanks a good Samaritan who found and returned a handbag left in Lindale Mall food court on December 27. The bag contained jeans and a black blouse to be exchanged and was returned to the mall office. The reader also criticizes a recent editorial on prison pornography and urges stricter obscenity laws.
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