Word: michigan
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...fact, quite dead, but it was suffering from a variety of serious disorders, including a seemingly uncheckable algae growth that, like a fast-spreading cancer, was choking off the other forms of life. Though the remaining four of North America's great chain of lakes-Superior, Michigan, Huron and Ontario-were less diseased, they too showed symptoms of serious, man-made illness...
What infuriates the whites is that the Chippewas use gill nets, which are wide-mesh devices that also trap and kill lake trout and coho salmon. Both are among the game fish that Michigan spends $1.6 million a year to stock in its waters. Whites fear that Chippewa gill netters will clean out the trout and cohos, and destroy the state's $350 million-a-year sport-fishing industry. Myrl Keller, a state fish biologist, calls the Indians' use of the nets a "malicious, wasteful mode of fishing...
However the fights in Michigan and Minnesota come out, a flood of additional Indian-rights claims may soon engulf courts across the country. Congress has set a deadline of April 1 for the Federal Government, which legally is the protector of the Indians, to file suits on their behalf. Pushed by this deadline, many tribal councils that have been attempting to negotiate solutions of their problems with whites may demand that Washington take the cases to court...
...good investment, and with reason. Each year Moeller sends an average of 15 players to college on football scholarships. They have been won by every starting offensive lineman in the past six years and by every starting center and all but one quarterback since 1963. When Notre Dame and Michigan played earlier this year, at one point five of the 22 players on the field were Moeller alumni. Says Faust: "I can tell a boy that if he gets good grades and he's 6 ft. 2 in. and plays on the offensive line, we can almost guarantee...
...Cincinnati high school, a rather competent quarterback named Roger Staubach. College coaches value especially the precise execution that Moeller players learn. Woody Hayes made three recruiting trips to the school in his final year at Ohio State, and U.S.C.'s John Robinson, Penn State's Joe Paterno, Michigan's Bo Schembechler and Notre Dame's Dan Devine are regular callers...