Cedar Rapids Downtown Receives 58 Million Economic Boost
The Cedar Rapids downtown district is underway with about 58 million dollars in construction projects to revive ailing commerce. Leaders expect a slow recovery after Killian's department store closing and unemployment spikes, while planners eye a downtown mall and new retail anchors to attract shoppers and finance centers.
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Dick Hogan
Cedar Rapids
Killian
Abbott Lipsky
Cedar Rapids- Marion
Engie Center
Public Library
YWCA
Iowa Building
Century Engineering
Lattner
Hutchinson
Norand
Iowa Theatre
Community Theatre
Linn County
Allison
Magnus
Don Canney
Canney
Second Street
Third Avenue
Lipsky
U S Signals Support for Vatican Diplomatic Ties
The Reagan administration signals openness to establishing formal diplomatic relations with the Vatican. A House committee source notes movement toward repeal of an 1867 ban on funds for a papal diplomat, with the bill’s fate uncertain in the Senate.
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Washington
Reagan
Congress
Vatican
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Clement Zablocki
D-Wis
House
Senate
State Department
John Paul II
United States
Italy
Papal States
Harry Wilford: Union Leader With Tommy Image Faces Press
Davenport area union chief Harry J. Wilford built Cedar Rapids Local 238 into solvency after 1946. A friend Myron Okken donated 50 acres along the Cedar River to create Harry J. Wilford Park, aiming to show Wilford's good side amid public misperceptions.
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Wilford
Cedar Rapids Teamsters
Jimmy Hoffa
Bobby Kennedy
Trucker
Teamster
Myron Okken
Okken
C Ave
Local 238
Cedar River
Palo
Covington
Harry J. Wilford
Harry Wilford
Senate Fights Over MX Missile Delay Weekend Senate Session
The Senate stalled on a vote amid parliamentary maneuvers and talk as it debated the MX missile program and other weapons. President Reagan urged approval to boost deterrence and offered to cut MX production if the Soviet Union agreed to deep nuclear reductions.
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New York Times
Washington
Senate
John Tower
Texas
Reagan
Camp David
Congress
Soviet Union
Defense Department
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