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...scores were saved. On South Dakota's huge Pine Ridge Sioux Indian Reservation, volunteers brought firewood to one isolated compound just in time: the elderly Indian women had begun to burn their clothing for heat. Jack Fourier, a local rancher, donated a frozen brahma bull to hungry Sioux 50 miles away, and used his chain saw to carve up the carcass. "In weather like this," said Fourier, "people got to pitch in for each other." In northern Indiana, people did just that. Paramedic Robert Hickman flagged down a freight train and highballed it 3½ miles to pick...
Many smaller states top those four in percentage increases. From the end of 1981 to the end of 1982, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, North Dakota increased its prison population by 28%; Alaska, 28%; Nevada, 25%; New Mexico, 23%; Oklahoma, 21%; and Hawaii, 18%. Arizona has doubled its prison population since...
...cited organizations supporting Sen. John Glenn (D-Ohio), Sen, Gary Hart (D-Colo.), Sen. Alan Cranston (D-Calif.), and former South Dakota Sen. George McGovern...
...event marks the second time that former Florida Gov. Reubin Askew, California Sen. Alan Cranston, Ohio Sen John Glenn, Colorado Sen. Gary Hart, South Carolina Sen. Ernest F. Hollings, former South Dakota Sen. George McGovern, and former Vice President Walter F. Mondale have faced each other in the campaign...
...famous five-member advisory commission, appointed at the behest of Congress to review Interior's controversial coal-leasing program, gamely met in Washington. But Watt chose not to wait for its recommendations; instead, he decided to issue five leases for coal-rich federal land in North Dakota to private companies (cost to them: $912 million). That decision flew in the face of a directive from the House Interior Committee, which had ordered Watt to delay granting the leases until Congress could review them. As Watt saw it, the House had no legal right to stop him. But U.S. District...