Lefever Withdraws Nomination As Reagan Rights Chief
Ernest W. Lefever withdrew from consideration for assistant secretary of state after the Senate committee found him unfit by a 13-4 vote. Lefever said he could not endure suspicion and character attacks, thanking President Reagan for the trust and noting he and his wife chose to step back from the nomination.
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Washington
Ernest W. Lefever
Reagan
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
Lefever
Howard Baker Jr
Sen
S.I. Hayakawa
R-Calif
State Department
Dean Fischer
Hayakawa
Maxine Jeffries
Associated Press
White House
James A. Baker III
Church Times and Weekend Notices in The Gazette
Church services listed in The Gazette church directory on page 8A. Also notes on video games, Agent Orange concerns, two unique patients meeting reporters, Outlook column on societal values, a state senator resignation dispute, Cedar Rapids movie review, a film score update, and subsoil moisture concerns for Central Iowa farmers.
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the Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Golf Feature: A Lot of Walking and Creative Arithmetic
A brief sports item notes a golf piece described as involving a lot of walking interspersed with disappointment and creative arithmetic. The tone suggests a light, humorous reflection on the round and its challenges.
School lunch program cuts spark budget driven changes
Washington AP reports the Senate Agriculture Committee trims about 900 million from national school lunch and breakfast programs to meet 1982 budget targets. Changes raise prices for reduced price meals and may exclude some 1.3 million full price lunch buyers from participation.
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Washington
Senate Agriculture Committee
Congress
Reagan
William Hoagland
The
Food and Nutrition Service
Senate Committee
Hoagland
Memorial honors those who served the living at Iowa service
About 100 mourners gathered at Oakland Cemetery for a 20 minute nondenominational service honoring 85 individuals who deeded their bodies to the University of Iowa medical school. Terence Williams praised donors for acts of love and charity. Loren Spence called Iowa's donor program stable and popular, driven by communal willingness to be of service.
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Iowa City
George Paterson
University of Iowa
Oakland Cemetery
University’s
Medical School
Terence Williams
Williams
Anatomy Department
Loren Spence
Anatomical
Iowa
Spence
U.S. Eases China Access to More American Technology
The Reagan administration will allow China to purchase more American technology with potential military uses on a case by case basis. The move, described as in principle, aims to improve U S China relations as Haig travels to Beijing. No armaments sale to China is announced.
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Washington
Peking
Alexander M. Haig Jr
China
National Security Council
State Department
Haig
U.S
Afghanistan
Carter Administration
Soviet Union
Taiwan
Reagan
Taipei
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