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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1980
Page
8
The Carter administration refuses to cancel aid to Saudi Arabia and Jordan while seeking hostages' release. Tehran signals conditional talks, but Washington aligns with no preconditions. Officials deem negotiations realistic and prudent given Iran's leverage and Islamist backing.
The piece examines a Grassley claim tied to a 1977 Social Security tax debate, tracing it to a forged speech in the Congressional Record extension of remarks. It notes Grassley’s denial, Culver’s wave of barbs, and reveals the speaker as a minority staff member, not Grassley. The article criticizes record-keeping practices as unreliable and urges catalogers to treat the Record as fiction until reform.
A dialogue between a church attender and a non attender explores reasons for skipping services. The non attender cites boredom and a desire to sleep in on Sundays, while the attender argues personal insight, prayer, and communal benefits as reasons to attend regularly. The exchange covers education, church finances, hypocrisy, and the role of religion in moral values versus business life.
An opinion piece accuses President Carter of tolerating and promoting self enrichment by his close circle. It cites Patrick Caddell’s Saudi work, Bert Lance’s finances, Jeff Carter’s Philippines contract, Billy Carter’s Libya ties, and Iran contacts to argue nepotism and impropriety. The piece asserts presidential complicity and urges judgment on endorsement.
Eleanor Taylor of Cedar Rapids served 37 years on the Coe College music faculty before retiring in 1974. She has been an organist for several organizations including the Cedar Rapids Symphony where she also contributed as an annotator.
A discussion of words starting with F such as flout flaunt flare flair and flotsam. It explains meanings and distinctions including flotsam versus jetsam and quotes a Big Ten spokesman about Illinois risking penalties for flaunting rules.
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