ERA clash over Iowa Constitution amendment debate
The Iowa Senate hears arguments for and against adding an Equal Rights Amendment to the state constitution as activists claim public backing while insiders remain unsure. If federal ratification fails by March 22 1979 Iowa could move on a state ERA with the 1979 80 Legislature. The Gazette backs action if federal ERA falls short and urges letting the people decide.
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ERA
Iowa
The
Gazette
U.S
Senate
Local voter option eyed for area education agency boards
Iowa senators consider allowing public elections for area education agency boards when 5 percent of last election voters sign petitions. Currently boards are elected by local districts with weighted votes. the public has no direct voice. The proposal would let voters decide who runs agency policy though likely rare in practice.
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Iowa
Senate
Linn County
Sen
Redmond
Grant Wood Area
Cedar Rapids
Area Agency
Area Education Agency
Carter forms bunker mentality as Jordan grows power
Washington analysis shows Hamilton Jordan expanding influence at the White House while the Carter team battles public ridicule. Rowland Evans and Robert Novak describe Jordan evolving into a de facto chief of staff whose administrative gaps risk deepening early presidency defects.
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Hamilton Jordan
White House
Carter
Jordan
Jody Powell
Mr. Carter
Rice and Scandals: A Tangled Koreagate Link Unveiled
A New York Times Service analysis traces a web from Koreagate to the Marston Affair through rice markets and political favors. It highlights Public Law 480 Food for Peace, middleman Tong Sun Park, and payments to lawmakers in California, Louisiana, and Texas, plus figures like Robert Leggett, John McFall, Edwin Edwards, and Otto Passman. The piece notes Kellogg and Anheuser Busch ties, the Flood-Eilberg probes, and alleged mob-tinged influence as it connects dairy and rice politics to a broader corruption narrative.
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U.S
South Korea
Tongsun Park
California
Louisiana
Texas
Robert Leggett
Sacramento Valley
Albert
Suzi Park Thomson
Leggett
Justice
Downstate Valley
Rep
John McFall
Tip O'Neill
Tongson Park
Edwin Edwards
John Breaux
Otto Passman
Park
Tip O’neill
Carter Justice Department
Passman
Word Oddities and Shifts in Meaning from Mellows to Straitjackets
A New York Times Syndicate column notes how mellow has broadened from ripe to calm or pleasant and cites usage about a former narcotics agent. It also explains between and every each in precise language and defines straitjacket from its Latin root and modern figurative sense.
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Marjorie Cunningham
Tucson, Ariz
The Naked Communist Goals Listed by Skousen
The piece cites W Cleon Skousen's 1958 book outlining 34 aims of an international communist conspiracy to dominate the world. It highlights goals such as internationalizing the Panama Canal, seizing political parties, promoting capitulation over atomic war, pushing the UN as world government, and gaining control of schools and teachers to spread propaganda.
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W. Cleon Skousen
J. Edgar Hoover
U.S
Patriot urges Iowa senators to oppose Panama treaty
A reader seeks political action from liberal Iowa senators urging a no vote on Panama canal treaties. The note denounces surrender of sovereignty and calls for an America first foreign policy, referencing Carter Thompson and Senator Clark and warning of Trilateral Commission influence and inflation.
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Lance
Panama
Coal
Mideast
Salt
Iowa
America
Trilateral Commission
United States
Carter
Illinois
James R. Thompson
Sen
Clark
Council On Foreign Relations
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Anheuser-Busch
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