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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1985
Page
2
Opinion piece argues Reagan will shape U S policy more than past leaders and predictably consolidates corporate power and reduced social programs. It singles out Pat Buchanan as key adviser and warns of a rightward shift under Reagan with limited liberal recourse.
The House passed a 1986 deficit reduction plan matching 56 billion in savings with deep Pentagon cuts and many programs frozen at 1985 levels. It preserves Social Security increases and defends benefits, setting up a House Senate budget conference after Memorial Day recess. vote 258 to 170.
The Pentagon will test a laser tracking system for the SDI program on a Discovery shuttle mission next month. SDI officials also seek two yearly shuttle flights starting in 1987. The June test will verify the shuttle mounted equipment can receive and reflect a laser signal from Maui Hawaii. Divers found the final body from the oil rig Tonkawa capsized in a Louisiana bayou.
Samuel Frustad, father of six surviving septuplets, visited two in the Orange California ICU. He urged the two smallest to keep fighting and nicknamed the healthiest Peanut and Bigfoot to the 1 pound infant at greatest risk of death.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette lists subscription options with carrier and mail rates for Morning Editions and Sunday issues. Rates include 7 issues weekly for $10.40 biweekly and $110.00 yearly, with other states at $140.00 yearly. no mail in areas with Gazette carrier service. Postmaster address for changes provided.
Dozens of students seized the U S Information Service building in Seoul barricading the library and accusing the United States of backing a military dictatorship in South Korea. They numbered about 60 to 70, warned of leaping from windows or taking poison if forced out, and pledged a hunger strike to the end.
Angop reported that three South African commandos laden with weapons and limpet mines were caught in Cabinda province planning to blow up a Gulf Oil refinery. Two were killed and one captured after a fight. The army in Johannesburg said it had lost contact with a small unit inside Angola but declined to confirm if it involved the same group.
Ottawa Prime Minister Brian Mulroney’s government unveils its first budget with tax increases and spending cuts to shrink the deficit. Finance Minister Michael Wilson says it is a budget of opportunity while foreseeing unemployment above 10 percent next year. Total spending reaches 76.7 billion dollars, about five percent higher than the previous year.
Workers nationwide walked off as union leaders led a mass rally before the government palace in Buenos Aires. Following a month long battle plan by the General Confederation of Labor, strikes began at 1 a.m. with 12 to 24 hour actions in major cities.
The FBI says the espionage case involving John Anthony Walker Jr and his son may widen with more arrests. Investigators probe associates of the father, possibly relatives, while the son, a Navy seaman aboard the Nimitz, awaits a Baltimore court appearance after charges of espionage.
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