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Oliphant was arrested April 23, six days after he accompanied five men who attempted to air-drop food provisions to Indians occupying the South Dakota town...
State legislatures in Kansas, North Dakota and Utah have already approved increases in the state share of school funding (example: up from 28% to 49% in Kansas); those in Florida and Illinois are expected to take similar action later this year. Meanwhile, the battle is continuing in the courts, for despite the Supreme Court's ruling, a number of state constitutions require equality of educational opportunity. In New Jersey, the state supreme court used those grounds to throw out the school funding system based on widely varying local property taxes...
...edging Minnesota, 43-42, in the frantic November title game, after having squandered a big early lead. Four years later the quarterback with the same old line captured national laurels again. This time, though, it wasn't nearly as close, as the veteran USU team humbled an inexperienced South Dakota squad, 63-32, for the national crown...
...Edgar Hoover skillfully made it a national monument, seemingly as solid as the Great Pyramid. In the year since Hoover's death, the FBI has been so riven by internal weaknesses and strife as a result of Watergate that it more closely resembles a disintegrating piece of the Dakota Badlands. Several of its top officials intend to retire in the next four weeks. The bureau's vaunted esprit de corps is in tatters, and the morale of its 8,700 agents has been shattered...
Commenting on his arrest last Saturday, Zimmerman said, "I have been accused of bringing food to Wounded Knee, South Dakota. According to the newspaper accounts I had read, these were people who were subsisting on one bowl of rice a day for the last three or four weeks...