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...winning almost 59% of the vote in a Toledo district that had voted 56% for Republican Ed Weber only two years ago. One reason: the Toledo AFL-CIO hired some of the district's jobless blue-collar workers to make 30,000 phone calls on her behalf. South Dakota lost one of its two House seats to redistricting, forcing Incumbents Clint Roberts, a Republican who represented the conservative, ranching western part of the state, and Thomas Daschle, a Democrat who represented the more liberal, farming eastern side, to battle each other. Roberts, whose weatherbeaten, mustachioed face has peered...
...Washington, the states are busting their budgets at an alarming rate. The Bureau of the Census reports that, while state revenues rose 12.2% to $310.8 billion last year, spending increased at a faster rate (13.1%) and overall indebtedness jumped 10.6% to $134.8 billion. Seven states (Massachusetts, Kentucky, Indiana, South Dakota, South Carolina, New Jersey and New Hampshire) could not balance their books. And according to the National Conference of State Legislatures, the situation is growing worse. High unemployment and the recession have hit the states with the force of a one-two punch, swelling welfare and unemployment expenditures while sharply...
...Marine lieutenant from South Dakota with a spotty athletic history, Billy Mills, now 44, came from nowhere to win the 10,000-meter run at the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games. In the long tradition of turning athletic accomplishment into movie magic, Mills' story is being beamed to the screen in Running Brave. (Mills is a Sioux Indian; running brave, get it?) For the movie, due out next year, Actor Robby Benson, 26 (The Chosen), ran five miles a day for three months. "Runners have a certain look about them," says Benson, "and there's no way to cheat...
...used to be the most feared of all PACs. The National Conservative PAC (NCPAC), known as "Nickpac," mounted a series of harsh negative advertising campaigns in 1980 that it insists were responsible for defeating Democratic Senators George McGovern of South Dakota, Frank Church of Idaho, Birch Bayh of Indiana and John Culver of Iowa. In the heady aftermath, NCPAC grandly announced that it planned to shoot down 20 more liberal Senators in 1982. But NCPAC's aim has proved less deadly than thought, and its guns are beginning to backfire. NCPAC is now heavily involved in only five Senate...
...Federal Government sharply curtailed a program to poison the ubiquitous barking little rodents because the toxic agents were also killing other animals. As a result, the prairie dogs are proliferating. In South Dakota (pop. 690,000), there are believed to be 15 times as many prairie dogs as people. Ranchers have filed suit to force Washington to resume its tough anti-prairie dog policies. Even environmental groups like the Sierra Club admit that there is a need for at least a limited control effort...