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...Midwest's best political reporter, David Yepsen of the Des Moines Register, is poised and waiting for the first 1992 Democratic presidential prospector to jet across the Mississippi into Keokuk or come stealthily by Hertz into Council Bluffs. His early-warning network, tuned to the Iowa caucuses that will kick off the next presidential season two years from now, is unerring...
...said, "You hiccup in Beirut, and it's on the living room screen in Keokuk, Iowa, That fundamentally changes the audience for news...
...said, "You hiccup in Beirut, and it's on the living room screen in Keokuk, Iowa. That fundamentally changes the audience for news...
...said, "You hiccup in Beirut, and it's on the living room screen in Keokuk, Iowa. That fundamentally changes the audience for news...
Once or twice a week, the crews unlash their towboats from the paralyzed herd of barges and bull through the ice into Keokuk (pop. 13,940). There they pick up cigarettes, toiletries, groceries, drinking water and mail, and make calls from the outdoor pay phone near the lockmaster's office. The rawboned Driver town is hardly humming (KEOKUK, HOME OF LORI FROELING, MISS IOWA 1979, brags its welcome sign), but the residents are friendly, and alcohol, strictly forbidden on the boats, is amply available. John and Donna Coffield invited several of the stranded bargemen into their home for Christmas...