Lawrence United Fund hits goal at deadline for first time since 1972
Editorial lauds Lawrence community for surpassing the United Fund goal of 348,297 by Friday’s windup, with pledges topping 350,000 and expected to rise. Credits leadership of Julie Hack, Pete Whitenight, Jo Bryant and Virginia Curran plus broad community effort. Notes tighter government funding urged local action.
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Lawrence
Lawrence United Fund
United Fund
Julie Hack
Drive
Pete Whitenight
Jo Bryant
Whitenight
Virginia Curran
Virginia
Budget deficits and global trade clash in mixed-era worries
Opinion pieces rail Stockman while praising productivity aims and debating U S and Japanese trade moves. Aspen skiers gain new buses costing 352000 dollars. eight plants to shut, 25100 workers affected. Japan runs a 2160 million October surplus as U S finances wobble. Labor talks loom as inflation bites. Reagan weighs export curbs to Russia amid debates on world trade versus restraint. A president faces hard choices amid mixed signals on policy.
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U.S
Japan
Federal officials should first stifle deadbeats
President Reagan seeks to trim the federal budget by squeezing delinquent debts but faces a culture of lax collection in federal agencies. Auditors show amounts owed rising from 24 billion in 1979 to 139 billion in 1980, with no shrinkage by 1981 82 budgets. The deadbeat deficit undermines deficit reduction and social program funding.
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Reagan
Treasury
Internal Revenue Service
IRS
Jim Jones
D-Okla
Debt collection crisis in federal agencies echoed by IRS data
A columnist argues that decades of neglect have left billions in uncollected debts across agencies, with only the IRS showing real potential for recovery. He urges aggressive, businesslike collection, noting that current bureaucratic habits hinder progress and that some agencies lack reliable receivable data.
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Reagan
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Tony Capaccio
Reagan presses through strain at recent news conferences
The piece notes President Reagan's strained demeanor at the last two news conferences, contrasting his usual wit and poise with nervous, tentative delivery. It discusses White House staff adopting a damage-control approach, hearing impairment issues, and preference for prepared topics with index cards.
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Martin Schram
Reagan
Shotgun weddings in modern times and the old guard
The piece traces the rise and fall of shotgun weddings as a moral relic, contrasting past paternal coercion with today’s welfare state. It argues governments replaced grandfathers in funding families, while illegitimacy rates rise and the idea of reviving shotgun weddings fades. It cites 1979 births out of wedlock at 600,000 and concedes legal obstacles to enforcing paternity.
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