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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1979
Page
6
Enrollment in the federal food stamp program climbs from 15.9 million to 19 million as cash requirements drop. Lawmakers debate funding, outreach and potential costs while representatives from Iowa push to sustain aid for the needy amid inflation and fiscal pressure.
Analysis of three crises in the Carter administration during the Fourth of July week shows a choked leader, clashing advisers, and a staff that failed to save the president from his own image strategy. The piece argues bold decisions require public acceptability, not appeasement.
The piece criticizes two days of Washington obsession with Carter's absence from TV remarks and Camp David retreat. It notes the media's pursuit of non-events while energy and economic policy shape public interest. It argues content of policy will determine value, not timing.
The piece recounts Nixon’s 1969 1970 warnings of a Vietnamese blood bath and contrasts them with four years after Saigon’s fall, showing a vast refugee disaster in Indochina. It notes ethnic Chinese expulsions from Vietnam, Hanoi’s wealth confiscation, and Clark Derian warnings on human rights abuses amid the Southeast Asian crisis.
A resident recounts a neighbor child entering uninvited and playing with their dog. The dog was destroyed after a visit to the pound while the cats were confined and treated. The Health Department ordered the cats destroyed as suspected ringworm carriers.
A reader recounts a police and health department demand to destroy pet cats amid family fear and aroused antiwar sentiment. She notes children's exposure to cats, questions about health risk, and references to Vietnam policy and U S actions, ending with a critique of the Iowa American Legion convention venue.
Mark Russell jokes about the new 11 sided one dollar coin from the U S Mint. He quips the motto Why make a perfect circle when a unidecagon will do and references a committee built horse. The piece ties the coin’s release to Carter era word choice changes and rambles through geometric humor.
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