Word: dakota
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...farmlands know that. The land is a force beyond man's ken. In the 1920s Novelist Sherwood Anderson wrote of North Dakota: "Mystery whispered in the grass, was caught and blown across the American Line in clouds of dust at evening on the prairies. I am old enough to remember tales that strengthen my belief in a deep semi-religious influence that was formerly at work among our people." That mysticism lives...
...General Douglas MacArthur's staff. Gale has worked closely with Posse Comitatus, a right-wing antitax organization active in the Midwest. In 1983, Posse Comitatus Member Gordon W. Kahl and two others murdered a pair of federal marshals who were trying to serve him with a warrant in North Dakota. Kahl was killed when his stores of ammunition exploded during a gun battle with police and FBI agents at a hideout in Arkansas...
...activists on both sides of the abortion controversy think Reagan's statements have created a momentum of their own. Said Ray Kranz, a South Dakota farmer who traveled to the march in Washington by bus: "Reagan has helped us out a lot. He's been an inspiration." Judy Goldsmith, president of the pro-choice National Organization for Women, expressed concern that "the President could send us back to the time when women risked their lives to be able to determine what happened with their bodies...
...agreements just as the old ABMs were limited, not eliminated, in SALT I. The 1972 treaty allowed each side to keep two systems; later that was cut back to one. The Soviets still have an ABM defense around Moscow; the U.S. had one around a missile field in North Dakota, although it has been deactivated since 1975. Some officials hope that the talks that began last week might end in a similar deal, whereby the superpowers would agree to reduce their offensive strength and protect their remaining forces with limited defenses...
...scale. 1. Michigan St. (9) 22-3 97 2. Minnesota-Duluth (1) 19-6-1 78 3. Minnesota 18-5-2 75 4. BC 18-6-1 74 5. RPI 15-2-0 67 6. Harvard 11-1-2 45 7. North Dakota 16-9-1 36 8. Clarkson 13-3-2 26 9. Lake Superior 15-11 24 10. Wisconsin...