Iowa cities deserve not just fields for presidential standups
Gazette editorials urge national media covering the Iowa caucuses to showcase urban Iowa alongside farms. They cite Cedar Rapids and Des Moines as backgrounds for standups and remind reporters to note growth, transportation, crime, and city life beyond agribusiness.
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Find Key to Lasting Peace and War’s Silent Toll
The piece argues that advances in DNA matching may someday identify all war dead, ending the Unknowns at Arlington and easing some families’ pain. Yet it notes ongoing anxiety for missing in action cases while urging science to help pursue lasting peace.
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Arlington National Cemetery
U N and NATO after Kosovo diplomacy and the 1990s failure
Norman Luxenburg argues the United States pursued diplomacy but the U N failed to stop ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia. He notes Milosevic’s atrocities, Serb forces, and the Srebenica massacre amid delayed UN safe areas and limited Dutch protection.
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Yugoslavia
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Boris Yeltsin
Milosevic
Tudjman
Moscow
European Community
Sarajevo
Dubrovnik
Vukovar
Srebinica
Gorazde
Jesse Jackson
Belgrade
Rambouillet
Richard Hollbrook
Saddam
Amendments draw sharp lines in Iowa referendum letters
Readers criticize two proposed Iowa Constitution amendments slated for June 29. They warn the measures misstate tax aims, threaten fiscal flexibility, favor special interests, and force costly ballots while failing to address real reform.
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Mike Deupree
Iowa
David Stanley
Gazette invites letters to the editor
The Gazette invites readers to submit letters up to 300 words. Include name, street address and daytime phone number. only your name and hometown will be published. Mail letters to Cedar Rapids Gazette Box 511 Cedar Rapids Iowa 52406 or fax 319 398 5846 or email gazette fyiowa com.
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