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Last week Democratic Senator James M. Abourezk of South Dakota sponsored legislation that would prohibit the CIA from "assassination, sabotage, political disruption or other meddling in a nation's internal affairs, without the approval of Congress or the knowledge of the American people." That proposal is unlikely to be enacted because most Congressmen believe that restricting the CIA would unwisely limit the President's freedom of action...
Died. Karl Earl Mundt, 74, former Republican Senator from South Dakota; in Washington, D.C. A college speech teacher before his election to Congress in 1938, the stocky, amiable Mundt applied his oratorical talents to the cause of American isolationism before Pearl Harbor awakened him to international concerns. A supporter of the United Nations and sponsor of the bill creating the Voice of America, he became a tough postwar antiCommunist. As acting chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee, he helped young Richard Nixon push the investigation of Alger Hiss. Elected to the Senate in 1948, Mundt reluctantly chaired...
...Baker Jr., 48, will go on show at a Capitol Hill gallery. Signed by the Senator, the most effective pictures are stark, almost monochromatic hill country landscapes. "Sometimes my wife thinks my photography is more an obsession than a hobby," Baker says. It seems that the wife of South Dakota's junior Senator may soon be feeling the same way; James Abourezk has caught the bug. "Jim already has a sackful of cameras and a darkroom in his house," said Baker sheepishly. "I have to take some responsibility for that...
...Southland Corp.'s 7-Eleven food stores will contribute to the federation 1? from the sale of each 250 Slurpee, a crushed-ice drink in a cup featuring drawings by Wildlife Artist Charles Ripper. The federation will use the money to buy an 835-acre area in South Dakota currently home for 15% of the surviving American bald eagles; the land will then become a preserve under the jurisdiction of the Department of Interior. To secure the purchase, Southland has already forwarded a $200,000 advance-quite a jump from the $1 and $2 donations that the federation gets...
...weather is also punishing Illinois, where the soybean crop will probably fall 20% below earlier expectations. Farmers in Oklahoma are getting only three cuttings of hay instead of five, and the spring-wheat yield in North Dakota is expected to be sharply reduced. The Governors of Nebraska, Iowa and South Dakota have declared their states disaster areas. At the Midwest Governors Conference last week in Minneapolis, a resolution was adopted urging the Administration to expand farm disaster relief and increase crop price-support programs, which only last year were reduced in order to boost production...