Word: dak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kahl had been wanted on murder charges since a shootout last February at Medina, N. Dak., in which two federal marshals were killed. The marshals had been trying to serve a warrant on Kahl for violating his parole on a 1977 conviction for failure to file federal income tax returns. On May 28, Kahl's son Yorivon, 23, and Scott Paul, 29, were convicted of two counts of second-degree murder and six counts of assault in the episode. But the elder Kahl, a member of the ultraright-wing Posse Comitatus, a paramilitary organization that opposes income taxes...
...half a dozen giant companies are vying to become the leading one-stop financial shopping center. Smaller banks and regional brokerage firms are struggling to keep customers from defecting to national firms by stressing personal service and local connections. Some, like the American State Bank of Rapid City, S. Dak., which is being acquired by New York's Citibank, decided that it is easier and more profitable to sell...
Craig Darby, chief steward for Local 1180 of the United Electrical Workers, charged, "It has been open season on workers who support the union" since organizing efforts began in 1978 at Litton's transplanted (from Minneapolis) microwave-oven plant in Sioux Falls, S. Dak. After workers voted in the union, Darby charged, Litton canceled a February pay raise, took away a dozen paid sick days and began a harsh new absentee policy that led to dozens of firings. "I don't understand," said Darby, "why a Litton can just laugh...
...largest remaining synfuels project also looks a bit wobbly. That is the $2.1 billion, 750-employee Great Plains venture to extract synthetic gas from coal near Beulah, N. Dak. Great Plains, owned by five energy and utility firms, had planned to charge up to $10 per 1,000 cu. ft. of gas. But the facility, currently 70% complete, could charge no more than $6.25 per 1,000 cu. ft. because of the fall in fuel-oil prices, to which the gas rates are pegged. At those prices, Great Plains looks like a terrible investment for its owners. They are turning...
...nuclear arms control agreement still legally in force between the superpowers. As amended in 1974, it restricts each side to one ABM installation. The U.S. has already retired and put into storage its own Safeguard system that was protecting the Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile field at Grand Forks, N. Dak. The U.S.S.R. still has an operational ABM system surrounding Moscow. The ABM treaty is generally regarded as the most valuable achievement in the otherwise controversial and, to many, disappointing history of U.S.-Soviet arms negotiations...