Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...margin is so thin" in Cambodia that it might be necessary to loosen the strictures of Cooper-Church to allow some U.S. personnel to act as air controllers on the ground. Was he launching a trial balloon for the Administration? The idea provoked a bitter comment from South Dakota's George McGovern: "Any Senator who talks about sending American forces into Cambodia should lead the charge himself. I'm fed up with old men sending young men out to die, particularly in stupid wars of this kind...
...Senate, parts of the Nixon program could easily get lost, distorted or delayed as ambitious Democrats eye 1972. Maine's Muskie will want to keep his brand on the environmental controls he has long championed. South Dakota's George McGovern will push the war on hunger. Ted Kennedy will be seeking national health insurance. Iowa's Harold Hughes has some ideas about combatting drugs and alcoholism. Oklahoma's Fred Harris wants to shape family assistance his own way. Indiana's Birch Bayh will continue to guard the pass on Nixon appointments...
...Education charged that federal funds appropriated for Indian education have been siphoned off for white schools. The discovery of immense oil deposits on Alaska's North Slope threatens to uproot thousands of Eskimos, Aleuts and Indians. In Custer State Park in the Black Hills of South Dakota, the buffalo have grown so numerous that the state allows hunting. A license to shoot buffalo costs $500. There are no discounts to Indians...