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...riots outside Iowa Beef Processors' slaughterhouse in tiny Dakota City (pop. 1,440), Neb., over the past two weeks recalled the labor wars of the 1930s. As union workers hurled railroad spikes and ball bearings at state troopers and strikebreakers, stinging clouds of tear gas and chemical spray swirled into protesters' eyes. Earlier, enraged members of Local 222 of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union had spread nails across the highway. Then, screaming "Scab! Scab!" they threw rocks and bricks at newly hired workers trying to enter the plant. Republican Governor Charles Thone was finally forced...
...taxpayer-subsidized salon proved an embarrassment to the Administration, but it was finally some hairsplitting uppityness by the Grauxes that prompted their dismissal: unhappy with being exiled from the White House, the couple questioned the proposed salon's legality in a letter to Senator James Abdnor, a South Dakota Republican...
...have approached Wisconsin for access to Lake Superior. They want to pipe water to the Montana coalfields, where it would be mixed with crushed coal to form a mudlike slurry that would in turn be fed to other parts of the country. uch schemes are not pipe dreams: South Dakota earlier this year agreed to sell 50,000 acre-ft. of Missouri River water to a San Francisco-based consortium, Energy Transport Systems Inc., which plans to pump the water 260 miles to the coalfields of the Powder River Basin near Gillette, Wyo. Coal slurry would then be moved through...
That deal has stirred up considerable controversy. South Dakota's Sioux Indians, citing old claims to the water, are contemplating a suit against the state to stop the sale. So are two downriver states, Missouri and Nebraska. Others may join in. At the Midwest Governors meeting, which unanimously passed a resolution calling on Congress to leave the region's water riches under control of the states, Iowa Governor Robert Ray denounced South Dakota's action as a neighbor's breach of faith. Said he: "What bothers me most is not the amount [to be] diverted, which...
...South Dakota Governor William Janklow dismissed such criticism as political posturing. Said he: "No more water will be sold than what Missouri probably wastes each year through leaky pipes in Kansas City and St. Louis." But other Midwest Governors, especially those of the Great Lakes states, remain uneasy. They fear increased pressure for their water, not only from other parts of the country but perhaps from Washington, exercising its powers to regulate interstate commerce. At a parley on Mackinac Island, Mich., last month, representatives from the Great Lakes states and two Canadian provinces (Ontario and Quebec) listened to some telling...