Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first Panama Canal treaty turned on a handful of votes, and so it seemed would the second as the critical vote loomed last week. South Dakota Democrat James Abourezk, for example, was miffed at being cut out of White House-Congress meetings trying to resolve the question of deregulating natural gas prices. California Republican Sam Hayakawa had fired off a letter to Carter complaining about a wide variety of Administration foreign policy moves. Nevada Democrat Howard Cannon wanted to tack onto the Panama treaty a relatively minor reservation. Massachusetts Republican Edward Brooke was pushing some technical changes. All were threatening...
Meanwhile, Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter hit town on April 20. I caught them over the summer in Rapid City, South Dakota. He and Jessi ("I'm Not Lisa") are married, but they never sing together. In public, that...
DIED. William L. McKnight, 90, pioneer advocate of industrial research and development who built and diversified a debt-ridden sandpaper concern into the $4 billion 3M Co.; in Miami Beach. McKnight left his family's South Dakota farm at 18 to become a bookkeeper's assistant in the Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. at $11.55 a week. He rose quietly to become president of the company at 41, then chairman of the board until he retired...
...five years since Rhodesia declared that it was officially at war, the army has changed greatly. In many respects, the struggle resembles a World War II campaign in an African setting. There are battered green Dakota aircraft, ration packs, small base camps of whitewashed canteens and dusty beer halls, tin-roofed headquarters rooms with map-covered walls and the whine of heavy trucks stripping their gears in the red clay sludge that passes for roads. Rhodesia's 9,000-man army is less than a U.S. Army division in strength, and its war is still mainly fought...
...Louisiana Democrats Russell Long and Bennett Johnston, who insist on a free market for natural gas, and Carter, who has repeatedly vowed to veto any bill that abruptly decontrols gas prices. The problem is complicated by another Senate bloc, this one led by Ohio Democrat Howard Metzenbaum and South Dakota's James Abourezk, both of whose states are heavily dependent on natural gas; they therefore demand that a federal lid be kept on gas prices. Democrat Henry Jackson, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, has been struggling for more than a month to cobble together...