Nagging fiscal ills in Iowa prompt budget debate
The Iowa governor faces a projected 90 to 100 million dollar deficit. Branstad proposes downsizing and consolidating state and county government to avoid across the board cuts. Avenson offers a 58.2 million dollar reduction with education protection, but the plan may be too modest for a reconvened Legislature.
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Iowa
Branstad
Donald Avenson
D-Oelwein
Avenson
General Assembly
Statehouse
Senate
Cal Hultman
Treasury
Washington, D.C
Reagan celebra tes job gain as manufacturing adds jobs
Presidents praises a 7.0 percent unemployment rate, down from 7.3, calling it proof the economy gains power. Manufacturing adds 37,000 jobs, while critics note uneven effects and gaps in unemployment relief. The August chart is hailed as strong news, with cautious views on sustainment into fall and winter.
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Reagan
Labor Department
America
Iowa
Time for Japanese Marshall Plan
The article argues against piecemeal trade fixes and urges a broad international effort to rebalance global trade. It singles out Japan for increased domestic spending and foreign aid, recalls the Marshall Plan as a model, and calls on the United States to lead new agreements to prevent retaliation and a shrinking world economy.
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West Berlin
Reagan
Japan
South Korea
Brazil
Congress
Capitol Hill
Nakasone
U.S
Asia
West Germany
Reagan hopes for major tax reform breakthrough this year
The piece argues a substantive tax bill could salvage Reagan's agenda despite a shambolic Congress. It highlights Dan Rostenkowski guiding House Ways and Means toward an October passage, while the Senate resists tax reform or defers it beyond the 1986 election.
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Washington
Reagan
Congress
South Africa
Senate
America
House
Dan Rostenkowski
Ways and Means Committee
Chicago
Daley
Virginia
Rostenkowski
Bob Dole
R-Kan
Finance Committee
Bob Packwood
Soviet Union
House-Senate
Washington Post Writers Group
Pendulum swing spooks the Left in a Time cover assessment
The LA Times Syndicate essay argues that liberal shock at evangelical momentum signals a broader battle between zealots and their critics. It cites NOW funding, Bible churches, creationism debates, and court battles over campus and school policies as indicators of a heated political-religious clash.
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Time Magazine
Jerry Falwell
America
National Organization For Women
Phyllis Schlafly
Pat Robertson
Tim Hayes
Beverly
Women For America
National Women’s Political Caucus
League of Women Voters
Vox Pop
Tom Wolfe
Harper's
el Salvador
Guatemala
Nicaragua
National Council of Churches
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John Donnelly
John Robertson
Art Heusinkveld
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Bitburg
World Bank International Monetary Fund
Seoul
New York Times Service
David S. Broder
Con Tink
Saddl
Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Kremlin
World Council
New York
National Press Club
District of Columbia
Catholic Georgetown University
O’grady
Democracy
Los Angeles Times Syndicate
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