Windfall loophole lets current congressmen keep campaign funds
The piece reports that while new limits blocked personal use by others, current House members can still convert leftover campaign money to personal use after leaving office. It cites a $40,000 transfer by Rep. John Dent and notes Senate rules ban personal use only for former senators and incumbents, prompting calls to close the exemption.
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John Dent
Rail merger may create two healthy railroads and energy giant
The Interstate Commerce Commission has 30 months to rule on Union Pacific and Missouri Pacific's proposed merger. Shareholders worry over a two for one stock split, but long term profits and a broader end to end system seem likely. The deal could reshape traffic, competition, and grain routes across Iowa, Nebraska, and the Midwest.
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Les Holland
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Kansas City Southern
Reader decries Supreme Court misstatement and handicap bias
A letter to the Gazette rants about a Jan 8 piece misdescribing a petition for writ of certiorari as an appeal. The writer questions disability law interpretations under the Rehabilitation Act and laments meter-change refusals during a downtown errand.
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Gazette
Baker argues for expanding farm exports over grain embargoes
U.S. senator Howard H. Baker urges reversing grain embargo policy and launching a worldwide farm produce trade offensive. He criticizes Carter’s limits on exports to the Soviet Union, cites defense underfunding, and calls for Congress to fund defense while aggressively selling grain abroad to feed the world and pressure Moscow.
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Oliphant cartoon offends faithful during papal visit
Letter condemns the December 28 Oliphant cartoon comparing Pope John Paul II to Ayatollah Khomeini as odious and below contempt. It rebukes the publisher for printing it after the pope's visit and calls for a full-page apology, citing Jesus and Vatican discipline of Father King.
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John Paul II
Ayatollah Khomeini
Defeat Carter urged in Iowa amid farm and economic worries
An Iowa reader urges defeating Jimmy Carter in the January 21 precinct caucuses. The letter argues for Kennedy over Carter, criticizes high interest rates and inflation, defends farming livelihoods, and stresses the economic power of farmers for America.
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Carter
Afghanistan as a Soviet strategy and global reach
Roscoe Drummond argues that the Afghanistan invasion is a step in a larger Soviet plan to control Southwest Asia and sea lanes. He warns that Moscow seeks influence from Africa to Central Asia, threatening Western Europe and the United States, and urges increased U S deterrence and readiness.
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