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Such nightmares inspired North Dakota Republican Senator Mark Andrews to propose, and Congress to pass, a provision that contractors include written warranties on weapons systems. Argued Andrews: "If the public can expect-and get-warranties on its purchases, from TV sets to washing machines to air conditioners, why not when we buy machinery to protect our freedom...
...that South Carolina had found its Flako corn-muffin mix had more EDB than federal guidelines permit. "We're not happy about it," said Ron Bottrell, a worried Quaker Oats spokesman. "This was our first product to be found out of compliance anywhere." In Ohio, Minnesota and North Dakota, General Mills voluntarily took Bisquick off the shelves, while South Carolina and Alabama recalled the company's Betty Crocker white-cake mixes...
Last year the Federal Reserve refused to approve plans by Citicorp, BankAmerica and First Interstate to buy banks in South Dakota, from which they intended to sell insurance across state borders. Unbowed, the banks have now started pressuring Congress for a legislative change to let their strategy go ahead. Citicorp Vice Chairman Hans Angermueller bluntly says that his company's tactic is "to batter at every barrier at all times." With that kind of zeal behind it, full national banking is probably not far away...
Against this background a letter came East last month from Porcupine, South Dakota--from a bitter Lakota Indian. Russell Means. Means is running for president of his tribal council with a slate of candidates representing a program known as TREATY--an acronym for the True Revolution for Elders. Ancestors, Treaties and Youth His platform is utterly revolutionary--complete and immediate severance of relations with the United States...
...over their powerlessness, and the double-edged sword of development. Companies like Union Carbide, working with the Reagan Administration's blessing, are moving to get rights to strip-mine the Lakota land, one of the poorest in the country, a bare plot of 4500 square miles in southwest South Dakota. Their goal is the fantastically lucrative uranium bed that sits under the land and that could, if properly cultivated, prove a panacea to the tribe's poverty. It could mean, among other things, hundreds of thousands of dollars for education and jobs. It could also scatter acres of carcinogenic dust...