Ties and heroics in Roger Arnold case spark debate
A Boston ATF inspector, 80, was fired for refusing to wear a necktie for his official photo. He appeals to EEOC, arguing gender bias. The essayist wryly muses on ties as fashion history while noting Arnold's unemployment and the social pressures of wardrobe rules.
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Roger Arnold
Associated Press
Arnold
Boston
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
I.D
Roger
Mo. Valley
Bernardo
Anita
Beau Brummel
Centuri
Independence
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Rog
Woman files suit for false arrest in Cedar Rapids
Kathy Susan Smith sues Cedar Rapids police officer Ron Johnson the city and Linn County in Linn County District Court alleging false arrest on August 22 after a receipt showed she paid a traffic fine but the payment was credited to Cathy Jo Smith. She claims John son arrested her at her place of employment and seeks compensatory and punitive damages.
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Cedar Rapids
Kathy Susan Smith
Ron Johnson
Linn County
Linn District Court
Linn
Smith
Johnson
City
Cathy Jo Smith
Grant OK'd for ISU 3M deal funding
Iowa officials approved a 440000 grant from lottery backed accounts for a joint ISU and 3M project to develop amorphous silicon solar film. The plan includes 1.9 million from ISU and 3.07 million from 3M through June 1989 to start pilot manufacturing creating about 50 jobs initially and up to 100 later.
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Sy Judy Dauber
Gazette
Des Moines Bureau
Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa Economic Development Board
Iowa State University
ISU
Governy
Uiclus
Iowa Product Development Corporation
Towa State University
Howard Shanks
Shanks
Grand jury to probe Tama County shooting in Garwin
Tama County grand jury will be impaneled Monday to review the shooting death of 32 year old Tony Wayne Otta who was killed March 13 as he forced entry into the Seims home. Timothy Seim admitted shooting Otta though he was reportedly unarmed. The investigation involves the Tama County Sheriff Department and the state investigators with no charges filed yet.
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Toledo
Tama County
Brent Heeren
Tony Wayne Otta
Timothy and
Jan Seim
Soma County
Timothy Seim
Otta
Seim
Jan
Ottaived
Ota
Garwin
Heeren
Tama County Sheriff's Department
State Division of Criminal Investigation
Agen
Seims
Insurance man funds reward for Washington Iowa attack
Washington Iowa local businessman Dick Horak adds 400 to a 100 reward fund after a daytime sexual assault on a teenage girl at Sunset Park. Sheriff Yale Jarvis backs the idea, hoping rewards encourage witnesses and improve a vague suspect description.
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Iowa
Dick Horak
Cedar Rapids
Horak
Sunset Park
Horak Insurance
Horak Partners
Sheriff's Department
Washington County
Yale Jarvis
Jarvis
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