Agriculture drives Senate control in Democratic push
Democrats see farm policy as the path to regaining the Senate. Senators Harkin Hart and Zorinsky advocate mandatory production controls amid low wheat prices and rising farm subsidies. Republicans defend market intervention while polls show farm belt attitudes aiding GOP candidates but Democrats press the issue as elections approach.
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BazZeuc
Harkin
Edward Zorinsky
D-Neb
Reagan
Zorinsky
Hart
Senate
GOP
Iowa
Charles Grassley
Senate Democrats
Senate Democratic
Robert Byrd
D-W.va
Diane Dewhirst
National Republican Senatorial Committee
Chris Kennedy
Committee
Kennedy
Dewhirst
Benefits and costs of a Foreign Service career examined
The GAO lists 1985 foreign posting benefits including up to three months advance pay and free housing. Dependents receive college travel grants and annual home trips. hostile-area staff get two free home trips. Rest and recuperation, hardship allowances, and representation funds total several millions yearly. Retirement possible at 50 after 20 years.
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Christopher Paddack
Paddack
United States Information Agency
Burlington
Iowa
Montevideo
Uruguay
Mississippi
Paddock
General Accounting Office
Edward Zorinsky
D-Neb
Zorinsky
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Foreign Service
GAO
Stu
United States
Political Notes Old haunts on the campaign trail
A wide ranging editorial collage surveys Iowa campaign dynamics. It analyzes Branstad Conlin Grassley Roedrick and Babbitt with references to Tax credits for John Ryan and Harvard White House politics. It notes RAGBRAI plans and political strategies plus a teen republican award and a Lincoln County hog roast fundraiser.
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Terry Bran
Roxanne Conlin
Charles Grassley
John Ryan
John Roedrick
Grassley
Des Moines
Arizona
Bruce Babbitt
Iowa
Ecclesiastes
Branstad
Conlin
James
Lowell Jenkins
Montrose Democrat
Dick Clark
Jack Miller
U.S. Senate
Babbitt
Ragbrai
Register
Arizona Democrat
Eric Tabor
Tom Tauke
Clark
Roedrick
Ryan
Congress
GOP
Grassley Campaign
Iowa Reorganization Moves Agencies and Offices
The Iowa Racing Commission moved to the Iowa Beer and Liquor Control Department warehouse in Ankeny and joined the Department of Commerce as the racing and gaming division. Public Health moved its Substance Abuse division to the Lucas building in Des Moines with minimal public access disruption. The Inspections and Appeals agency was assembled from multiple inspectors across departments, while some hearings remain in Ames for three months.
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Department of Substance Abuse
Iowa Department of Public Health
Des Moines
Lucas
Public Health
Mary Ellis
Iowa Racing Commission
Racing and Gaming Division
Department of Commerce
Commission
Wallace
Capitol Complex
Iowa Beer and Liquor Control Department
Ankeny
Mick Lura
The
Racing Commission
S.E. Hulsizer
Chuck Sweeney
Health Department
Agriculture Department
Department of Human Services
Job Service of
Iowa
Ment of Transportation and Human Services
Department
Miller cartoons on display at Hoover site in West Branch
West Branch exhibition features 21 political cartoons by Frank Miller from the Des Moines Register era. The show includes seven newly donated originals plus loans from the Eisenhower Birthplace Museum and LBJ Presidential Library, open daily with modest admission through year end.
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Miller
Hoover
W. Branch
West Branch
Frank Miller
Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Museum
Des Moines Register
Register
Hoover Library Museum
Dallas Center
Iowa
Wil
Liam J. Wagner
Mamie Dowd Eisenhower
Boone
Lyndon B. Johnson
Austin
Texas
Gilbert elected president of Iowa Humanities Board
Thomas Gilbert a philosophy professor at Morningside College was chosen president at the Iowa Humanities Board session in Cedar Rapids. Other officers include Darwin Turner of the University of Iowa Foundation as president-elect Grace Hower of the University of Northern Iowa secretary and William Bestmann of Marshalltown treasurer.
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Chad Sawyer
Marion
Eric Howes
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Sawyer
Howes
Washington, D.C
Don Sawyer
Wayne Howes
Thomas Gilbert
Morningside College
Iowa Humanities Board
Darwin Turner
University of Iowa Foundation
Grace Hower
University of Northern Iowa
William Bestmann
Marshalltown
Iowa Development Commission
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Washington
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Common Cause Magazine
Massachusetts
Edward Kennedy
Boston University
Boston
Mass
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Don
Buzz) Sawyer
Linn County
Ken Sullivan
Terry Branstad
Humanities Board
C.R
Gazette
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CIBA
Montgomery Ward
Optical Department
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