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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1976
Page
6
Editors invite readers to weigh in on a 35-hour workweek. The piece contrasts two views: business economists seek fewer hours with pay kept, while AFL-CIO favors reduced hours with no wage cut. It argues risks include inflation and uneven gains, warning against naive assumptions about hiring and production.
Norman Cousins argues Ford risks impeachment pressure by defying Senate on Angola aid. He says Congress will demand full disclosure of dates, funds, and personnel. Kissinger seen as steering policy, with detente tied to a Soviet exit. hardline stance urged.
A syndicated column argues U.S. Vietnam and Angola wars stem from crisis politics and fear of weakness. It urges building institutions of world law to unify foreign policy and achieve peace, warning against Strangelovian power dynamics and broader land wars in Asia.
A critique of White House briefings on President Ford slipups on ski slopes and elsewhere. The piece argues media portrayal may be overstated while noting a string of Ford stumbles from airplane ramps to pool edges and a dog encounter. It defends Ford as human and questions political harm from minor falls. It also recalls a misaddressed letter to Linn County and a Donne line about nobody being an island.
In a Washington Star Syndicate piece Hedrick Smith notes Soviet dissidents Solzhenitsyn Sakharov and Medvedev are reduced to three lights amid a choked movement as visitors crave czarist splendor. The piece contrasts restored palaces with grim prison memories and questions why the past is so fiercely preserved while dissenters face denigration.
A reader urges rebuilding large river based electric plants using water power. Citing Coralville dam as a potential water source, the letter argues upkeep costs may be lower and power could be cheaper like wind energy. The writer calls for leaders to study this option.
A reader denounces a Nancy cartoon for promoting drinking and urges more religious cartoons. The letter questions a 12 year probation and $1000 fine given to a former school supervisor for voluntary manslaughter of a mentally challenged person, asking if family status influenced the lenient sentence.
In a letter to the editor the writer claims Frank Church's committee leaked details about JFK and accuses newsmen of a systemic censorship pattern. They argue that uncensored press is needed but allege media protected allies and punished adversaries, revealing a broader media bias.
The Gazette invites reader letters up to 400 words and allows one letter per writer every 30 days. Submissions may be condensed and edited without changing meaning, are not anonymous, and must include the writer's name address readable signature and a phone number for authentication. The page concentrates on issues and events rather than personalities. No poetry is accepted.
Scientists are urged to reshape humanity to better cope with tomorrow by making people with two heads one to think with and one to worry with and four hands two to work with and two to hold either head with as proposed by interOcean Press Syndicate.
Yale president Kingman Brewster urges tracing inflation to a specific congressman to curb wasteful spending. The piece argues voters share blame for reelecting big spenders, notes two-edged contempt for politicians, and highlights English teachers stressing practical support over grammar. Newspaper Enterprise Association.
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