25 Percent Tuition Hike Faces Nonresident Iowa Students
University of Iowa students from overseas oppose a proposed 17.5 percent statewide tuition rise while the regents approve a 25 percent hike for nonresidents. Gerard Ng from Malaysia faces a $1,625 yearly increase, with parents paying about $21,000 including living costs. Other students urge cap-and-trade changes or exemptions for current foreign enrollees.
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Council Bluffs
Gerard Ng
Malaysia
University of Iowa
Iowa
Reagan says he will OK King holiday
President Reagan said he would sign legislation creating a federal holiday to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. after the Senate approved 78 to 22. He noted the symbolic importance while declining to judge sealed FBI file questions about King's associations. The bill designates the third Monday in January as a national observance starting in 1986. King’s birth date was January 15, 1929.
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Gazette v
Washington
Reagan
Senate
Martin Luther King Jr
Iowa
Charles Grassley
Roger Jepsen
Jepsen
Congress
Jesse Helms
R-N.c
King
Postcard to Psychiatrist Note: Enjoying Time
A postcard message shows someone writing to a psychiatrist that they are having a wonderful time and asking why. It reflects personal mood and a request for interpretation or analysis, suggesting a playful or introspective exchange rather than clinical content.
AGRI executives convicted in wheat theft plot
A federal jury found AGRI Industries and three executives guilty of conspiring to steal government wheat. The verdicts name Pat Kevlin Tom Williamson and Jack Wyard as guilty while Michael O Dowd and RF Nelson were acquitted. The case ties to a Houston export facility and a Fort Worth warehouse sale.
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DES Moines
Agri Industries
AGRI
Pat Kevlin
Tom Williamson
Clive
Iowa
Jack Wyard
West Des Moines
Michael J. O’dowd
Houston
Texas
B.J
Jerry” O'Dowd
RF. Nelson
Agri’s
Fort Worth
Wyard
Americans Sweep Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry
The 1983 Nobel Prizes in physics go to Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and William Fowler of Caltech for stellar evolution work, and Henry Taube of Stanford earns the chemistry prize for ion transfer processes. Barbara McClintock and Gerard Debreu win medicine and economics honors, with ages noted.
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Stockholm
Sweden
U.S
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
California Institute of Technology
Henry Taube
Stanford University
Chandrasekhar
Fowler
Taube
Barbara McClintock
New York
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Gerard Debreu
University of California
Berkeley
McClintock
Debreu
Family jailed over camping fee in Yakima park
An Arkansas family was jailed for trespassing after camping at Sportsmans State Park east of Yakima without paying a 7.50 overnight fee. The 10-year-old boy was held by Child Protective Services for 72 hours but was later reunited with his parents as charges moved to trial. Smokey the dog was returned to the family with free food after authorities initially feared adoption or euthanizing.
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Yakima, Wash
Arkansas
Washington
Freddie Brooks
Searcy
Ark
Kathy
Gene
Brooks
Bobby
State Child Protective Services
Smokey
America
Fred Porter
Yakima
Brookses
Christina Crowns
Crowns
Porter
Sportsmans State Park
Yakima County
Dick Nesary
Steve Middleton
Nesary
John Nicholson
Child Protective Service
Heather van Nuys
Ms. van Nuys
Child Protective Services
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Iowa State University
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Sharon McMulin
U of I
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Marion
Simmons
Farm Tv
Graedon
U.S World Health
Walid Jumblatt
Druse
Lebanon
Beirut
Richard Turner
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
University of Chicago
William Fowler
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