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Died. Francis William Leahy, 64, football coach at Notre Dame who stepped into Knute Rockne's shoes but did not quite fill them; of congestive heart failure following a long illness; in Portland, Ore. Raised in the prophetically named town of Winner, S. Dak., Leahy attended Notre Dame where he played on the undefeated 1929 national championship team. After various coaching jobs-including six years at Fordham, where he taught future Green Bay Packers Coach Vince Lombardi-Leahy returned to Notre Dame in 1941 and led the Irish to their first undefeated season since Rockne's days. Known...
Burke, S. Dak...
Aggravating the conflict was the arrest Friday of AIM Firebrand Russell Means in Los Angeles. Means faces eleven counts on various charges in connection with the takeover. When a Deadwood, S. Dak. court caught Means in a technicality relating to the filing of his $25,000 bond, Judge Andrew W. Bogue revoked the bond, and a warrant was issued for Means' arrest...
...altercation at Wounded Knee, S. Dak. [March 12], serves to point out the desperate plight of the American Indian. Symbolic of Indian treatment. Wounded Knee bleeds and festers with an indignant discontent indicative that change is needed, and needed quickly. Violence can never be condoned, but something must be tremendously awry in our society if only through violence can minorities progress out of poverty and ignorance. If America does not heal its Wounded Knee, it will become crippled for life...
FROM the start, the confrontation at Wounded Knee, S. Dak., between militant Indians and local, state and federal authorities had all the elements of bad theater. The Indians insisted on outmoded makeup (war paint) and melodramatic lines ("Massacre us or meet our human needs"). The Federal Government brought in outrageous props, including war planes. There were too many theatrical asides aimed at the TV cameras and too many studied parallels to the Viet Nam War, including a "demilitarized zone" and "ceasefire observers." Finally there was the self-conscious symbolism of the choice of the site itself, the mass burial ground...