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...okay a $4 million bond issue for a new school. Its reason: since Indian lands cannot be taxed, a Wampanoag legal victory could wipe out the tax base for paying off the bonds. Word spread quickly to local banks, which began shutting off mortgage loans. Says Mashpee Selectman George Benway: "Ninetynine percent of all real estate transactions have stopped. Building funds have dried up. The whole town has stopped...
...David Benway, 37, of Excelsior, Minn., a salesman for a mail-order printing house, voted for Barry Goldwater in 1964. But in 1968, he explains, "I was in Chicago during the Democratic Convention. I took three days off and wandered around the riot zones and listened to McCarthy. I became very despondent about the machine, the whole state of affairs. I started listening to the kids and to McCarthy...
...very excited. Now we're [he and his wife] active in the ecology movement." Benway favors busing: "I want my kids exposed to blacks, and to poor blacks. I think it would be nothing but good." But the basis of his support for McGovern is Benway's commitment to "total nonviolence." Says he: "Kids with guns aren't allowed in our yard. We're trying to stress that we feel killing is bad." He sees an ethic of militarism in Nixon: "We're supposedly a democracy, and yet we're approaching an authoritarian state here...
...BENWAY Toledo, Ohio...