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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1977
Page
2
A strong critique of K twelve schooling arguing discipline and information balance, warning that many students graduate with low reading and math skills. The author recalls personal disciplinary methods, highlights parental and teacher failures, and champions active reading and math instruction through engaging, discussion linked practices.
This brief compendium notes historic events on June 20 including the 1789 start of the French Revolution and the 1863 admission of West Virginia as a state. It also marks 1968 hot line agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union and other milestones through recent decades. It lists notable birthdays and a thought for today by Saul Bellow.
Congress moves to shape domestic spending with Senate Foreign Relations Committee set to hear closed hearings on Carter's Korea troop withdrawal plan. Adm Turner will report on CIA findings while Gen Brown and Habib testify later. House reviews 60.5 billion draft with abortion civil rights and busing provisions and moves toward votes on Agriculture, Military Construction, Defense and foreign aid bills. Energy policy will be examined by committees in both chambers.
A rural chronicle depicts a mock war with barbed wire trenches, a Sherman tank, and machine guns in a garden as moles groundhogs and rabbits overrun fields. Despite war talk and shortages, small joys persist with wrens and barn swallows nesting in the garage as summer looms.
A column questions the Kennedy administration’s role surrounding Bay of Pigs events and alleged contacts with Cuban gunmen. It argues no solid evidence shows JFK or RFK ordered Castro’s assassination, criticizes Moyers and public figures, and warns against pseudohistory while stressing demand for hard facts.
A Muscatine family reported using rat poison to clean the area and their pet hound dog died the next morning. The note recalls past local events from 406, 50, 25, and 10 years ago, including officials and celebrations in nearby towns.
Robyn Kuibbe Lillian Alldredge Janice Bodily Karen Barnard from Iowa City Coralville and nearby towns argue the Iowa State Convention delegates to the National Women's Conference favor abortion federal funding for abortions the ERA universal child care and gay rights They accuse the organizing committee of bias and deny minority input urging grassroots organizing and full representation for Iowa women.
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