Branstad Pushes $3 Billion Farm Aid on Political Stage
Iowa Governor Terry Branstad urges a $3 billion federal loan guarantee to help farmers amid a looming debt crisis. He cites Chrysler’s $1.2 billion loan success to argue for extraordinary measures, while Senate leaders varied in support and call for a presidential task force to study farm credit issues.
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Ashington
Lee Iacocca
Heartland
Iowa
Terry Branstad
Branstad
Iacocca
Chrysler Corp
Congress
Chrysler
Reagan
Senate
Robert Dole
Dole
Nancy Kassebaum
R-Kan
White House
Pershing 2 missile fire in Germany injures soldiers
A solid-fuel motor of an unarmed Pershing 2 missile caught fire at Waldheide Base near Heilbronn in southern Germany. Three American soldiers were killed and seven injured as a transporter and maintenance truck burned. Brig. Gen. Raymond Haddock said the missile was not armed and there was no explosion.
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New York Times Service
BOM
West Germany
Germany
U.S. Army
Heilbronn
Raymond Haddock
56Th Field Artillery Brigade
United States
Waldheide
Iowa cowboy sued over joke aboard Air California flight
A 74-year-old Minnesota woman sues Air California and Larry White the singing cowboy from Iowa for over 250000, saying his joke over the PA about crash landing frightened passengers on the January 29 1983 Las Vegas trip home to Rochester. The suit cites White's bad news good news line and a team sing along as cause of distress.
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T. Paul
Iowa
Air California
Cowboy
Adeline Miller
Rochester
Miller
Las Vegas
Nev
Larry White
Waukon
Harmony
Minn
White
Iowa farmers face toughest months yet says state official
Ed Stanek, director of the Iowa Office of Planning and Programming, warned Cedar Rapids audiences that farmers lack equity to secure new loans. He called conditions historic, predicting more farm foreclosures through April and urging expansion of federal loan guarantees.
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Owa
Cedar Rapids
Ed Stanek
Iowa Office of Planning and Programming
Iowa
Stanek
Roosevelt Hotel
Terry Branstad
Washington
1984 Wholesale prices point to low inflation
The December wholesale price rise was 0.1 percent, giving finished goods a 1.8 percent gain for 1984. Analysts foresee a third straight low inflation year in 1985, with energy costs falling and food and manufactured goods mostly steady.
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Gazette Wire Services
Washington
Department of Labor
White House
Larry Speakes
Moreo
Speakes
Allen Sinai
Shearson Lehman-American Express
Sinai
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Iown
Capitol Hill
Gisbie
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Rocket Motors
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Regan
Abby
Bridge BA Farm
Marion
U.S
Samson
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