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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1999
Page
5
Gallup poll shows nearly two thirds of adults approve legal gambling including three quarters backing state lotteries and 67 percent believing casinos help local economies. Teens show less approval. poll notes mixed views on expansion, social harms, and compulsive gambling fears.
Iowa Secretary of State Chet Culver announces a bipartisan First in the Nation Caucus Commission to defend Iowa as the first caucus state as other states threaten earlier dates. He cites moves by Michigan South Carolina and Louisiana and notes Iowa’s caucuses could shift to January 2000 if needed.
The Southern Baptists voted 2316 to 1313 to urge President Clinton to rescind James Hormel as the United States ambassador to Luxembourg. They criticized an avowed homosexual representing the U.S. and cited Hormel’s Senate bypass as part of the controversy. Hormel, a former dean of the University of Chicago law school, was appointed two weeks earlier.
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