Iowa language task force touts foreign language push
Governor appoints a 20 member task force that urges teaching from a global perspective and stronger school business ties. The report notes rising enrollment from 27 000 in 1979 to 32 000 this year and favors adding more languages to elementary education while leaving mandatory study to local districts.
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Department of Public Instruction
Ray
National Commission of Education
Iowa
Federal Commission
James Freedman
U of I
Branstad
Tobacco Warning Bill Advances In Senate Panel
A 15 to 1 Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee vote supports a stronger cigarette health warning. The measure would read Warning Cigarette Smoking Causes Cancer Emphysema And Heart Disease May Complicate Pregnancy And Is Addictive. It also asserts Cigarette smoking is the largest preventable cause of illness and premature death in the United States.
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Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee
United States
Farcical Dame Sparks Banter in New York
A boastful narrator recalls meeting a striking, poison-tinged woman in New York. He notes her uptown air and mocks his own off the rack suit before joking about private eyes and Cary Grant, while sharing a bourbon.
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New York
Cary Grant
Projecting the White House in a Car Chase Parody
A humorous riff on political image crafting. A narrator details a femme fatale asking about a stolen private book used to rehearse Ronald Reagan for a televised debate. The satire weaves in Carter, Stockman, and the idea of projecting niceness for political gain.
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White House
Ronald Reagan
Laguna
Warren Hymer
Warner Brothers
Washington
Carter
David Stockman
Reagan
Stockman
Jimmy Carter
Debategate and Boland Omissions Stir Debate Over Media
The piece questions if the Reagan Carter era briefing materials were illicitly obtained and how the press amplifies such scandals. It argues Boland altered evidence and notes omissions about Soviet involvement, criticizing selective reporting and urging careful public accounting.
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Boland
Readers defend hunting tax use against H.R. 2470
In a response to June 22, a Gazette reader argues the excise tax on sporting goods funds safety and ethical training for youth, wildlife areas, and habitat work. He dismisses critics, urging outdoorsmen to contact congressmen to oppose H.R. 2470 as political piracy.
Letter on Supreme Court power and a call for drastic executive action
The writer argues for an executive order to disband the Supreme Court and the judiciary, threatening to erase elections and Congress. The letter links this to a prophesied return of Jesus Christ and urges progress toward that aim. It also comments on a past concert review of Rick Springfield, defending Sparks and criticizing the reviewer as biased.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Reagan
House of Representatives
Senate
ACLU
ERA
Lord Jesus Christ
Roxanne T. Mueller
Rick Springfield
Hall and Oates
John Denver
Beach Boys
Eighth Air Force Veterans Reunion in Chicago
Two Eighth Air Force units stationed at Watton England during World War II hold a joint reunion in Chicago July 14 16 this year. Iowa veterans of 3D Strategic Air Depot and 25th Bomb Group should contact for full details.
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Eighth Air Force
Watton
England
Chicago
Iowa
3D Strategic Air Depot
25Th Bomb Group
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