Editorial Notebook on Interstate Delays and Global Rails
The Ottawa Herald page reflects on the Interstate program started in 1956, costs ballooning from an initial $25 billion to about $110 billion, and the 42,500 miles now planned with seven percent unfinished. Congress, inflation, delays, and changing standards shaped the project, with Amtrak decisions and foreign rail advances noted. A humorous aside about a near-90-year-old friend’s new boyfriend closes the column.
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Kansas City
Here
Kansas
Congress
Amtrak
Hutchinson
Africa
Little Secrecy At Iranian Polls
Iran conducted a 73 member assembly election with limited privacy and widespread endorsements for Islamic Republic candidates. Many secular groups boycotted citing undemocratic procedures while state media urged illiterate voters to rely on others to cast ballots.
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Iran
Islamic Republic Party of Revolutionary
Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini
Ministry of Interior
The
National Front
Peoples Republican Party
National Democratic Front
Vitamin B-12 value and absorption myths questioned
Reader questions B-12 as a supplement, Dr Donahue notes most lack need unless deficient, and that absorption issues render tablets ineffective while injections treat pernicious anemia. a separate exchange on sterility clarifies single open tube suffices for conception and urges testing if infertility persists.
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Dr. Donahue
Donahue
Expected Grain Sales We Can Deliver By Roderick Turnbull
Kansas City board of trade report updated grain and soybean projections for 1979 80. USDA estimates total supply domestic use exports and carry overs for wheat corn soybeans and feed grains with year end outcomes and notes on potential price impacts.
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Roderick Turnbull
Kansas City Board of Trade
Kansas City
U.S
U.S. Department of Agriculture
USDA
Canada
Buffalo
Great Lakes
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Ottawa
Robert B. Wellington
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Paramount Picture
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Leroy
Barbra Streisand
Ryan O'Neal
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