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Stretching toward sunset from the Missouri, South Dakota's West River country is an unrelieved expanse of rough-hewn plains and arid badlands. Under the tough sod lie prairie-dog towns and nuclear missile silos. Above ground, a handful of ranchers raise sheep and cattle on the stingy rangeland. Mostly, natives say, there are miles and miles of miles and miles...
...politically unpopular things: curtail services or raise taxes. In a closed-door session, according to Arkansas' Frank White, seven out of 20 Governors confessed they had either just passed tax increases or intend to do so soon. Some states will suffer more than others. North Dakota, with its oil and coal revenues, will do just fine without the federal dollars. Boasts Governor Allen Olson: "We want to prove we can live without them." But in the Northeast and industrial Midwest, the new federalism is "cruel and unusual punishment," according to Roger Vaughan, economic aide to New York Governor Hugh...
...Somebody told me yesterday that if North Dakota seceded from the Union, it would be the third ranking nuclear power in the world, and things generally do not bode well...
...Roosevelts were a blessed and blighted family-an American tragedy as well as an American success story. One of them ought to have seen this, and that someone, McCullough implies, should have been Teddy. In the Badlands of Dakota, while recovering from the deaths (on the same day) of his mother and first wife Alice Lee, Teddy, at 25, wrote of "melancholy pathless plains" and "deathlike stillness"-the moral geography of Edgar Allan Poe. Here he came as close as he ever would to confessing to his demons...
...this year: a total of 17 seats must be transferred from ten states in the Northeast and Midwest to eleven states in the West and the South. Those losing seats are New York (five), Illinois, Ohio and Pennsylvania (two each), and Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey and South Dakota (one each). Gaining seats are Florida (four), Texas (three), California (two), and Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Tennessee, Utah and Washington (one each...