Iowa budget winds improve with higher receipts and cuts
Mosher notes mixed signals in Iowa finances as general fund receipts rise 9.2 percent on the year led by corporate income tax up 14.7 percent while sales tax remains weak. State balance near 18 million due to late June inflows and unspent agency money, with a smaller deficit next year aided by 4.7 million less in special education payments to districts.
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Sri Lankan hijack hostage release and tax accord details
Ekanayake freed hostages after obtaining assurances from Sri Lankan authorities that he would face only tax on his new fortune and not prosecution. Narco police, under orders not to arrest him, are contacting Interpol over drug smuggling charges in Austria and Pakistan. Revenue projections hinge on a potential economy improvement as rates rise amid federal borrowing concerns. Mosher and peers foresee a possible continued improvement despite recession indicators.
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Hatter Ekanayake Wife and Child Held During Jet Hijack
Anna Aldro vandi and 3-year-old Frey hid in a hotel room while a hijacker threatened to blow up the jet unless she returned from Italy and he was granted a divorce and custody. The vest of dynamite was fake and the case focuses on second-degree sexual abuse charges against Hatter, with close custody urged for the defendant.
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Unemployment rate holds at 9.5 percent in June
The U S unemployment rate stayed at 9 5 percent in June after four straight monthly increases with 10 4 million unemployed The report notes weaker job prospects and record postwar highs for adult male and teen black unemployment plus factory workers and white collar sectors at elevated levels.
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Washington
Walters Fulfills Lifelong Dream In Weather Balloon
The chair dangled five feet above the ground as Walters descended safely from the balloon. Walters has long aspired to ride a weather balloon and said the experience fulfilled his dream, though he would not repeat it.
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Two Eastern Iowans Named to Child Abuse Panel
Gov. Ray appoints Sue Ellen Jensen of Sigourney and Michael W. Mahaffey of Montezuma to the new Child Abuse Prevention Program Advisory Council. Terms run at the governor’s pleasure. The council was created this year by the Legislature. Marriage license fees were raised by five dollars to fund the program.
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Des Moines
France Detonates 20 Kiloton Nuclear Device in Pacific
Wellington reports France detonated a 20 kiloton nuclear device at Muraroa Atoll in the South Pacific. Dr. Warwick Smith of New Zealand’s Seismological Observatory says the explosion occurred Thursday morning and was detected by equipment in Rarotonga, about 2,000 miles away. Further details were not immediately available.
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