Labor splits over Mondale endorsements and union votes
AFL-CIO leaders push Mondale with large poll support yet unions show mixed backing. IAM split favors Mondale and Glenn equally, while NYT-CBS poll finds half approve Reagan and 40 plus percent favor him. Raskin notes waning worker ties to unions amid workplace change. Open-minded members remain unsettled.
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Newsday
Eisenhower
Stevenson
Raskin
Army opens more jobs to women as limits ease
The Army will lift restrictions on 13 of 23 previously off limits specialties, boosting women in 302 of 351 Army jobs. It also plans strength tests to match tasks to abilities and raise women in service from 75,600 to 83,300 by 1987, signaling a policy shift under Reagan.
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Carter
Ronald Reagan
Defense Advisory Committee On Women In the Services
Secretary of Defense
Reagan
In the Silent Woods Autumn Colors Inspire a Spiritual Name
A reflective prose piece describes autumn forests with golden, russet, and green foliage. It contrasts the beauty and the sorrow of the blackened trunks, urging contemplation of mind and heart through nature's vivid palette and the enduring bonds of friendship and love.
Tucson Reader Declares City Alive After Storms
James E Niehart president of the Tucson Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce reassures readers that Tucson recovered after last month's heavy storms. He notes dry riverbeds have subsided, weather is pleasant, and roads are clear with popular sights open and the city vibrant again.
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Mark Twain
Tucson
Arizona
James E. Niehart
Heart of City Hall praised by grateful resident
A citizen thanks the May Island City Hall heart on the third floor for its officials Commissioners Wayne Murdock and Floyd Bergen and staff Ben Cook and Lana Gundacker. The speaker credits them with effective service and quips that fighting City Hall would be pointless.
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Floyd Bergen
Ben Cook
Lana Gundacker
Phones for elderly Silver Thread program praised
The Linn County Council on Aging and Teleconnect Co. offer free telephones, installation, and service to low income elderly residents who meet eligibility rules. The program aims to ensure elderly people can communicate, avoid isolation, and maintain contact with others.
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Teleconnect Co
Council On Aging
Measures to build global perspective in schools
Robert B. Anthony urges schools to adopt international focus using speakers, cross cultural displays, world maps, foreign language study, international cuisine, pen pal programs, and global trade literacy. He provides eighteen concrete actions for classrooms and districts.
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United States
Askew At Jefferson-Jackson Dinner Faces Heckling
The Oct 8 Jefferson-Jackson dinner featured Reubin Askew, booed for urging openness to opposing views on abortion, right to work, and nuclear freeze stance. The event drew near-universal praise for his candor while two presidential hopefuls aimed to boost a straw poll.
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Reubin Askew
Democratic Party
Rights rhetoric tests Georgetown freedom and faith
George Will argues that Georgetown University faced a DC Human Rights Act dispute over recognizing homosexual student groups. He says the suit seeks to force private religious institutions to endorse homosexual doctrine, undermining the university’s religious mission and free exercise rights in a broader liberal shift. Eva Peron
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