Skyway funding moves forward in Iowa House vote
The Iowa House passed a bill to expand federal assistance for skyway projects, with critics arguing private interests would reap most benefits. The plan envisions private financing through special assessment districts, with public gains from safer pedestrian flow and lighter overall property taxes in a thriving central district. Senate approval is expected to follow, underscoring broad public interest.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa House
House
Senate
Carter gains early traction for human rights push abroad
Anthony Lewis reports that Carter’s human rights policy shows early impact. Cables from officials indicate concern among right wing regimes and some releases and commutations in Indonesia and Paraguay. Critics view the approach as disorderly but effective, with unpublicized diplomacy backing public statements.
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State Department
Associated Press
Paraguay
Alfredo Stroessner
Carter
Vance
Moscow
Washington
Jimmy Carter
Debating Laetrile and the Quack Cure Question
The piece argues quack cures persist from ancient times and Laetrile or amygdalin remains scientifically ineffective though not harmful. It weighs jail or fines for sellers against individual rights to seek unproven treatments and notes FDA use of labeling and anti fraud rules, with black market prices inflating incentives and potential saving lives if legality and disclosure improve outcomes.
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FDA
Mexico
Letters on gas shortages and past gas politics
A reader recalls the cold January and high gas bills over 177 years as blame shifts to government regulation and Democratic lawmakers. They note Nixon’s pension increase, question past gaslight campaigns by gas companies, and reflect on coal gasification timelines and a 1920s Minnesota town gas era.
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William Safire
Nixon
Free enterprise blamed as fuel use worsens shortages
The text argues that high vehicle and fuel consumption persists under free enterprise policies, calls for rationing, and critiques creationist influence in science and education. It notes biologists opposing evolution, advocates separation of church and state, and highlights actions by Action for Children's Television to curb TV food advertising to kids with a meeting planned at Kenwood School.
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Dr. Gish
ACT
Evolutionary Controversy Highlighted by Rev Dan Hof Letter
In a February 26 letter Rev Dan Hof argues about the evolutionary controversy. He points out the belief in evolution faces challenges from faith perspectives and urges readers to consider both sides.
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Danhof
Profitable morality amid overseas business bribery debates
An editorial cites Simons and Blumenthal on ethics in U S firms and notes Wall Street Journal findings that condemning bribes did not hurt foreign sales. It references Lockheed’s experience and hints at government probes into CIA involvement and the limited economic impact of crackdowns.
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Treasury
Simons
United States
Blumenthal
Wall Street Journal
The
Journal
U.S
Central Intelligence Agency
Word play and usage notes from a New York Times column
Theodore M. Bernstein discusses flutterby versus butterfly, language beauty across languages, a grammar trap with twice as accurate, and the two faced word clip. He notes how phrasing matters and offers how to fix common errors.
TV ads target children with vast hours and pricey messages
A study notes children spend 11 000 hours with teachers and 15 000 with TV by high school. Advertising flows over 206 billion annually, about 96 per person, much aimed at kids. Robert B Choate Jr says 75 percent of TV pitched food is nutritionally worthless.
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Robert B. Choate, Jr
Council of Children, Media and Merchandising
Undecaying glass and the push to curb throwaways
The piece notes growing support for banning throwaway packaging though glass refuse remains problematic as rust and decay do not affect it. It lists nonreturnables across beverages oils and cosmetics and cites burned out lamps TV tubes and window glass as vast landfill contributors. It urges reuse or safe conversion to non hazardous forms.
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Iowa
By Anthony Lewis
Indonesia
Suharto
Latin America
State Vance
Europe
Woodrow Wilson
President Carter
Andrei Sakharov
New York Times Service
Food and Drug Administration
Minnesota
Olution
Institute For Creation Research
San Diego
Duane Gish
Action For Children’s Television
Federal Trade Commission
American Dental Association
American Academy of Pediatrics
American Medical Association
Austin Street
Newtonville
Mass
Kenwood
John Ruskin
Christian Science Monitor
Lockheed
Theodore M. Bernstein
Butterfly
Roy Berger
Des Moines
Tscherman
New York Times Syndicate
Wordcraft
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