30 Jun 1987
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1987
Page
1
A tentative plan slated to start next summer could align grades more with student performance at the University of Iowa. The proposal has supporters and detractors and appears in Iowa Today on TA.
A light humorous note jokes that while to err is human some people are saturated with humanity, delivering a playful quip about human excess and error.
Dairy farmers press labeling for imitation cheese on pizzas as bills and budget figures maneuver in Washington. The National Milk Producers Federation argues for a clear label while processors like Pillsbury push to avoid drawing attention to cheaper mozzarella substitutes amid a multi hundred million pizza market.
The Transportation Department plans broad drug tests within 60 days including random testing for safety related jobs affecting about 30 000 workers. Union leader Kenneth Blaylock argues the program violates privacy while Dole defends the policy as necessary with court action anticipated to challenge it.
Former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger urged tearing off the top three floors of the U S Embassy in Moscow and adding a six story annex for sensitive work at an estimated cost of about 80 million dollars half of which is already appropriated by Congress. He warned that Soviet spy tech has outpaced the United States and proposed shielding the new top floors while relocating secret activities to the annex next to the rebuilt chancery. Senator Hollings called the plan a half measure and favored tearing the entire building down and starting over.
Iowa education chief Robert Benton resigns as director of the Department of Education effective August 28 to become dean at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh College of Education and Human Services. The move is described as a lateral salary change to new opportunities in teacher education and certification.
Reagan aides list five potential successors to retiring Justice Powell with Robert Bork as the clear odds-on front-runner. Other names include J Clifford Wallace Patrick Higginbotham and Richard Posner. Odds on fifth candidate undetermined. Orrin Hatch or Frank Easterbrook discussed. Administration aims to speed confirmation before October term begins amid abortion and school prayer cases and affirmative action challenges.
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