Editorial Notebook Reflects on White House Conferences
Editorials poke fun at White House conferences on families and taxes, noting calls for health care, tax exemptions, and lower taxes. The piece recalls a Harris newspaper conference room joke and a friend’s honey do vacation. It also notes Edmund Muskie’s post Senate trip with aides, a son, and a reporter, costing $60,000.
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White House
Harris Group
Jack Harris
Elm Street
Edmund Muskie
Senate
State Department
Ottawa library plans new building for 1980s needs
Nell Barnaby Likai praises the Ottawa Library Board staff and officials for backing a brand new library building after over two decades of documented needs. She notes space limits hinder housing materials serving the public and staff efficiency, urging timely financing for a modern facility.
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Ottawa Library Board
Ottaw
Nell Barnaby Likai
Advice on exercise and asthma for teen athletes
A reader asks how to balance sports with asthma and suggests patterns to watch for attack triggers. Dr Donohue counters that exercise can help if risks are managed, noting cold air and certain environments raise attack risk and recommending medical adjustment and supervised activity, with swimming as a favorable option.
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Dr. Donahue
Cromolyn
Donohue
Behcet's
A Conservative View A Different Meeting
James Kilpatrick contrasts two family conferences in Baltimore and Washington. The Baltimore sessions, funded by tax dollars and led by White House organizers, focused on homosexual and abortion rights and expanded government programs. The Washington gathering, funded privately by the American Family Institute, argued to keep government out of family life and featured Justice William Rehnquist and Paul Johnson advocating a traditional, private family sphere.
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James J. Kilpatrick
Washington
Baltimore
White House
American Family Institute
Institute
William Rehnquist
Supreme Court
Rehnquist
Paul Johnson
The
New Statesman
American Enterprise ’Institute
Dr. Johnson
World grain output seen at record potential 1980 81
USDA projects total grain production could reach 1 525 to 1 605 million metric tons in 1980 81 with historical trend 1 540 to 1 630 million. World acreage for wheat coarse grains and rice rose by about 23 3 million hectares from 1974 75 to 1979 80, showing continued land expansion despite yield gains.
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Roderick Turnbull
Kansas City Board of Trade
Kansas City
U.S. Department of Agriculture
USDA
Agricultural Outlook
U.S
United States
Europe
Soviet Union
People’s Republic of China
Canada
Australia
Argentina
Prayer for Today Reminds of God’s Presence and Gratitude
A devotional prayer notes that God is present and prompts believers to give thanks daily. The prayer asks for guidance to affirm love for God and ends with a concluding Amen.
Chicago Hispanics sue over 1980 census undercount claim
Eight Hispanic organizations and 55 individuals accuse the Census Bureau of undercounting Chicago Hispanics in 1980. Plaintiffs name Secretary Philip Klutznick Census Bureau Director Vincent Barabba and Chicago regional census director Stanley Moore as defendants. They allege missed counts in heavily Hispanic neighborhoods and failure to mail surveys in Spanish speaking blocks.
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Chicago
U.S. District Court
Census Bureau
Philip M. Klutznick
Vincent Barabba
Stanley D. Moore
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Plaza
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