Clowns and cookies rally to defend school lunches
Democrats staged a Capitol rally to defend the federal school lunch program amid Republican budget cuts. Notable figures included Rep. Richard Gephardt and Sen. Jay Rockefeller, handing out lunches to thousands of children from several states while criticizing proposed block grants and inflation-free funding limits.
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Children's Defense Fund
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Ohio
NBC
Meet the Press
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Maury
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Brittany
Veronica Hogan
John Dingell
D-Mich
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Demand for fertilizer drives Iowa prices higher
Demand outpaces tight supplies as fertilizer costs soar in Iowa. Jim Pinney of Heart of Iowa Cooperative notes very high prices amid reduced nitrogen use, while Regis Voss of Iowa State University warns delaying purchases risks higher costs this spring. Anhydrous ammonia prices rose about 30 percent year over year through October 1994.
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Heart of Iowa Cooperative
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Iowa
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Iowa State University
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Soviet Union
Rushdie blasts West over Iran ties at book fair
Paris and CAPE TOWN reports note Salman Rushdie condemning Western cynicism for keeping relations with Iran amid a $3 million bounty on his head. He spoke at the French Book Fair under police supervision as he denounced Tehran’s refusal to drop the death sentence while Western nations limit contacts.
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Ruhollah Khomeini
Tehran
Forrest Gump wins editors award at ACE ceremony
American Cinema Editors named Forrest Gump best edited motion picture of 1994 at the 45th ACE Awards. Hoop Dreams won best edited documentary despite missing Academy recognition. Robert Altman received the ACE Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year for a 33-film career. full list includes editors from Paramount, Kartemquin, HBO and more.
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Fine Line
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Annie
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