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...Frontier Room, Dixie's Shasta Room, the Pine Room and the Cozy Room were raided by a task force worthy of an Abscam sting: the FBI, U.S. marshals, the South Dakota division of criminal investigation, the South Dakota Attorney General's office and the Lawrence County sheriffs office. After state officials filed public-nuisance charges against the bordellos, 27 girls and their three poodles were taken into custody as material witnesses in a federal grand jury probe. They were released and have not been seen since. A lot of people miss them...
Last week Pam Holliday, who once greeted patrons at the door of Pam's Frontier Room, was busily auctioning off its furnishings. "I have very expensive lawyers," she explained. A witty redhead who can barely raise her left hand under the weight of diamond and emerald rings, Pam insists that she taught her girls all the social graces: "You might say it was a type of charm school." Buyers, many of them female, came from miles around to buy Pamorabilia and get her autograph (price: $2). Among the hottest items at the auction: oven timers, an electric vibrator pillow...
George Hanigan never lived to stand trial; he died of a heart attack in March 1977. The Hanigan sons were tried in a county court in October 1977; the all-white jury found them not guilty. The outcome incensed Mexican Americans and Mexicans alike. "Racist, frontier justice," charged Raul Grijalva, a Tucson school district board member. In Mexico, ballads lamented the fate of the aliens, and President José López Portillo criticized the outcome. "There was a pretty hot feeling," George Patterson, a civil engineer in Douglas, told TIME Correspondent Diana Coutu. "People were afraid to cross...
...than 2.6 million men under arms-many of them in a highly trained, combat-ready militia-Viet Nam has the third largest military force in the world.* Pulling most of its crack divisions out of Vietnamese-occupied Cambodia, Hanoi has massed 250,000 to 300,000 troops along its frontier with China. Another invasion by Peking, Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach has warned, would lead to swift and humiliating defeat for the Chinese...
...Viet Nam's first women paratroopers. For the first time, Hanoi's top leaders posed for an informal group portrait, which included Minister of Defense General Van Tien Dung, who forged Viet Nam's formidable new military machine. Traveling along Viet Nam's northern frontier, Labbé photographed army and navy patrols and some of the country's elite units on permanent border alert...