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Legal Fee. In a related action last week, Associated Milk Producers, Inc. was fined a maximum $35,000 in federal court in Washington after pleading guilty to making illegal campaign contributions to Democratic and Republican candidates in 1968, 1970 and 1972, including Hubert Humphrey, Edmund Muskie, South Dakota Senator James Abourezk and Arkansas Representative Wilbur Mills...
...writes his Pulitzer Prize winning column of political and social commentary every week, the two Knight brothers (who hold 47% of the chain's stock) are still active on the publishing side. Knight-Ridder's chairman and chief executive officer would be Lee Hills, 68, a North Dakota-born newspaper veteran who has been president of Knight since 1967. Hills aims to continue the editorial autonomy that has been traditional in both the Knight and the Ridder chains. "We don't think you can stamp newspapers out of cookie cutters," he says...
James Abourezk, 43, one of 14 Lebanese-Americans in South Dakota, is a relaxed, informal politician who finds the U.S. Senate a bit too stuffy. Liberal Democrat Abourezk (pronounced Aber-esk) decided to study law at 32, went to Congress at 39 and, after a single term, captured his Senate seat in 1972. Besides being the Senate's most forceful spokesman for the Arab cause in the conflict over a Palestinian state, Abourezk, who was born on a Sioux reservation and knows more about the American Indian than any of his 99 colleagues, is chairman of the Senate...
Richard F. Kneip, 41. In the past two years Governor Kneip, a Democrat, has trimmed South Dakota's executive branch from 160 departments to 14, set up a state personnel system
George McGovern, LL.D., Democratic Senator from South Dakota...