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...first group to visit the island under the new travel rules was a team of basketball players from South Dakota, accompanied by the state's Democratic Senators, George McGovern and James Abourezk. The South Dakotans were blasted off the court by the Olympic-class Cuban roundballers, but McGovern came home full of zeal for ending the 16-year-old trade embargo. Last week another U.S. group with a keen interest in that project went to Havana: 50 business leaders from Minnesota...
...just may be. Despite a promising start (in which 33 states ratified the amendment within three years after it was passed by the U.S. Senate in 1972), just two states-North Dakota and Indiana-have approved the amendment since February 1975. Only 38 are needed to make the ERA the 27th Amendment to the Constitution. But strong opposition exists in the remaining 15 states, and less than two years remains until March 22, 1979-the end of the seven years allowed for ratification by three-quarters of the states...
...Have I changed? Listen, I came out of South Dakota and grew up in California, where nine people lived in a two-bedroom house, and I haven't changed at all. Values. Family. Hard work...
...GARRISON DIVERSION. Quite a different kind of problem is posed by the $566 million enterprise along the Missouri River in North Dakota. The Garrison, 19% complete, would carry water through 1,000 miles of major canals to irrigate 250,000 acres in the dry eastern part of the state...
...last week's public hearing in Jamestown, N. Dak., the state's officials put as much pressure as they could on the Carter Administration. Governor Arthur Link even succeeded in persuading Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus, an old friend, to come. North Dakota's three-man congressional delegation was there, as were most state officials and nearly the entire state legislature, which made the 100-mile trip from Bismarck to attend. Backing the project, State Representative Michael Unhjem bitterly asked: "I wonder if Georgia ever had a drought during...