Word: dakota
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...Republican victories jolted the long dominant Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (see box). Of significance elsewhere for the political future were the solid gains made by Republicans in a number of state legislatures. The G.O.P. went into the election controlling both houses of legislature in only two Midwestern states (South Dakota and Nebraska) but won enough victories to take over both chambers in four additional states: Iowa, Kansas, Indiana and North Dakota. In influential Illinois, Republicans made strong gains in both houses of the legislature, only narrowly missing control...
...Nebraska Too Close to Call J. James Exon (D) Nevada Robert List (R) New Hampshire Hugh Gallen (D) Too Close to Call New Jersey Bill Bradley (D) New Mexico Not Yet Reported Pete V. Domenici (R) New York Hugh L. Carey (D) North Carolina Jesse A. Helms (R) North Dakota Ohio Too Close to Call Oklahoma George Nigh (D) David L. Boren (D) Oregon Victor Atiyeh (R) Mark O. Hatfield (R) Pennsylvania Richard Thornburgh (R) Rhode Island J. Joseph Garrahy (D) Claiborne Pell (D) South Carolina Richard W. Riley (D) Strom Thurmond (R) South Dakota William J. Janklow (R) Larry...
...Senate, Democrat James Abourezk of South Dakota, a diehard opponent of natural gas deregulation, mounted a one-man filibuster that delayed the final vote for three days. Even after a 71-to-13 cloture vote, Abourezk, who is retiring from the Senate this year, obstinately continued his filibuster, causing Majority Leader Byrd to slump red-faced with anger in his chair. Abourezk, with a handful of supporters, kept talking for 15 hours, then gave up. Hours later, the bill passed, by 60 to 17 in the Senate and 231 to 168 in the House...
...North Dakota's Burlington Dam. The $117 million project on the Souris River is designed to prevent periodic flooding in parts of Minot. The reservoir would be dry most of the time, and the release of the water at flood stage could create almost as much damage to farm land and the ecology as it would prevent in the city...
LeBoutillier is disillusioned. As an undergraduate, he had offered his help to a former POW running for the Senate against George McGovern in South Dakota. The college kid raises $250,000 for the ex-POW and all of a sudden LeBoutillier is a hot prospect for both the Ford and Reagan fund-raising teams--or so he says. But he finds the Republican Party has "lost its soul." What the party and the country needs, he believes, is another Homestead Act--to return Americans to the land and their families; to recapture the spirit of 1862 without having to give...