Emergency spending OK'd amid veto threat and tax repeal
The Senate approved an emergency spending bill on a voice vote, repealing a special audit proof tax deduction for Congress. Up to 9,000 federal workers may be laid off if the House delays, as many members are away until July 12.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Congress
Mark Hatfield
R-Ore
Appropriations Committee
David Stockman
Stockman
Reagan
House
Nation
Hatter kidnapping trial ends defense surprised by quick rest
After less than three hours of testimony in the Bruce Hatter kidnapping case, the prosecution rested its case before 11:30 a.m. The defense asked for a full-day recess as the 12 jurors returned from lunch in Cedar Rapids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bruce Hatter
Hatter
Cedar Rapids
Mark Meyer
Loomis Trucking Workers Find Shade in Nebraska Wait
Trucker Bill Voss Dennis Lawrence and Ray Wake of Loomis Trucking Onawa Iowa rested in a hammock during a 2 hour delay while awaiting unloading at Crete Mills in Crete Nebraska.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Voss
Dennis Lawrence
Ray Wakehouse
Loomis Trucking
Onawa
Iowa
Crete Mills
Crete
Neb
Court upholds damages for substandard Glenwood care
Iowa Court of Appeals awards Timothy Clutes’s parents 760185 in future medical expenses and pain and suffering for tranquilizer overuse and restraints at Glenwood State Hospital School. The ruling calls the care substandard and the restraint use cruel and inhuman, noting lack of informed consent and need for medical oversight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Judy Daubenmier
Gazette
Des Moines
Bureau
Iowa Court of Appeals
Timothy Floyd Clutes
Glenwood State Hospital
Timothy Clutes
Timothy
Clutes
Pottawattamie District
Pottawattamie
Clites
Keith Clites
Cedar Rapids eligible for UDAG funds over unemployment
Cedar Rapids may enter the federal Urban Development Action Grant program as its high jobless rate meets criteria. Iowa’s cities over 50 000 and several under 50 000 join the list, with Cedar Rapids and Des Moines newly eligible. UDAG aims to spur private investment and job growth while requiring at least 24 percent private funds per UDAG dollar.
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Cedar Rapids
Dick Ransom
Ransom
Price
Independence
Departments of Commerce and Housing and Urban Development
UDAG
Heeren
Des Moines
Iowa
Waterloo
Dubuque
Sioux City
Marengo
Oelwein
Don Canney
Canney
HUD
Don Salyer
Salyer
Allison
Montrose
UI student convicted in Nazi themed mail harassment case
A 19 year old University of Iowa student was found guilty of theft of services and telecommunications fraud for a harassment campaign against Daniel C. Kissinger of Wilmette Illinois and Victor Weiss of Kenilworth. Sentenced to four weekends in county jail from July 31 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. Co defendants Adam Schellenberg and Thomas Hartel testified with Hartel granted immunity.
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Chicago
University of Iowa
Daniel C. Kissinger
Wilmette
Ill
Cook County
Nicholas T. Pomaro
Kissinger
Victor Weiss
Adam P. Schellenberg
Glencoe
Thomas Hartel
Kenilworth
Pomaro
Schellenberg
Hartel
Dennis Walter
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Menachem Begin
West Beirut
Palestine Liberation Organization
Reddy
Helen Reddy
I Am Woman
Women’s Liberation Movement
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Ms. Reddy
Jeffrey Wald
People
State Department
Ronald Reagan
Alexander Haig
Keith Erickson
Linn County Health Department
Metro
NBA
Iowans
Iowa State
Council Bluffs
Hospital School
Glenwood
Iowa Department of Social Services
City
C.R
Larry Heeren
Omaha
U of
Weiss
Weiss’ Company
Christian Dior
Gloria Vanderbilt
Oleg Cassini
Union Insurance
Montgomery Ivward
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