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Alan Darcy Smith Grand Forks, N. Dak...
Bowden and Knobe do not live in Miami or Chicago, Dallas or Los Angeles. Their improbable new financial capital: Sioux Falls, S. Dak. "We used to have such an image of cowboys and Indians," recalls Bowden, "when I would go to New York, the guys in the bar would give me a big war whoop. Now they say, 'Oh, you're from South Dakota, where you have good tax laws and where industry is moving in.' " Kind of stilted talk for bar chatter, perhaps, but apt. Sioux Falls (pop. 81,000) and the rest of South Dakota...
Thanks to the grant, Critchfield is devoting far more time than he normally would to a study of a new and different subject, the village of Fessenden, N. Dak. (pop. 600), which happens to be his birthplace. Says Critchfeld: "There was one big, invisible string attached to the MacArthur prize: it was something you had to live up to." Translation: not having the time or the money will not do as an excuse to avoid work...
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...
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...