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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1997
Page
6
The piece argues Congress should impose a one year spending freeze if essential programs survive. It recalls 1995 brinkmanship, Clinton's bully pulpit, and a potential 1997-98 budget standoff. It urges Republicans to act and dare a presidential veto to force accountability.
Iowa officials report eight deaths in highway work zones this year, including four in April and Sunday near Glenwood. The DOT notes drivers ignore orange warnings and cut in late, risking workers' safety and their own. Traffic tie ups follow, with funerals and regret.
Bertha Koppenhaver recalls her nephew 2nd Lt. Robert Bobst a B 24 navigator shot down near Bornholm Denmark in 1944 and rescued with help from Danish resistance. The crew survived with aid from locals and Sweden returning home after debriefings and reunions in 1996.
A Cedar Rapids reader lauds The Gazette for positive social influence in a single newspaper town. He highlights reader coffee events, editor Mark Bowden inviting topics, sympathetic coverage of suffering, critical pieces on gaming, and youth inserts.
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