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Hart Supporter Brian Quirk, 22, was elected caucus chairman by 86 of his Democratic neighbors gathered in the auditorium of Waterloo's red brick McKinstry Elementary School. When they arranged themselves into clusters according to candidate preference, 33 were for Mondale, 17 for Hart, eleven (five whites, six blacks) for Jackson, ten for McGovern, the rest scattered among also-rans. votes A at a caucus candidate to must have his receive 15% support of re the corded m the statewide tabulation; backers of candidates who fall below the threshold remain can formally defect to another uncommitted. contender During...
Iowa Democrats were sore about some competition from President Reagan who flew in to Iowa on caucus afternoon and made the media circus a two-ring affair. Reagan, whose job rating has dropped 12% since January, gave campaign speeches to 7,600 in Waterloo's Cattle Congress auditorium (only the Rolling StoneMn 1981, drew a bigger crowd) and to 7,000 more in Des Moines. Like most lowans, Democrat Sam Kauffman, a barber in Audubon (pop. 2,841), got a kick out of all the national attention. Said he "We don't get the chance for that kind...
...political. Said a French spokesman on the summit's first day: "We were impressed by the rigidity of the British representatives, while the other nine showed a sense of open-mindedness." Replied a British spokesman: "I'm sure that is what Napoleon thought before the Battle of Waterloo." Delving deeper into the history of hostility between the two nations, the French spokesman then countered, "Remember, France won the Hundred Years...
...struggle at Rath Packing in Waterloo, Iowa, has pitted the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union against itself. In July 1980, 60% of the company was sold to the firm's 2,000 workers to keep it from failing, and Local President Lyle Taylor was installed as company president. But losses continued :o accumulate, and six weeks ago Rath filed for bankruptcy. As part of the reorganization plan, Taylor wants 1,500 production workers to give up some of the generous medical benefits that he once helped negotiate and extend a $2.50-per-hour wage cut that...
...quintessential Nebraska football player. Under the hometown column of the team roster, occasional entries from New Jersey and Texas, California, Colorado or even Connecticut are fairly obliterated in a hailstorm of small Nebraska towns. It reads like the appendix of an almanac: Plattsmouth, Scottsbluff, Bell wood, Fremont, Waterloo, Dix, Ponca, Shelby, Wahoo, Hildreth, Crete, Burr... Steinkuhler is from Burr...