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...Lincoln, Neb...
...riots outside Iowa Beef Processors' slaughterhouse in tiny Dakota City (pop. 1,440), Neb., over the past two weeks recalled the labor wars of the 1930s. As union workers hurled railroad spikes and ball bearings at state troopers and strikebreakers, stinging clouds of tear gas and chemical spray swirled into protesters' eyes. Earlier, enraged members of Local 222 of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union had spread nails across the highway. Then, screaming "Scab! Scab!" they threw rocks and bricks at newly hired workers trying to enter the plant. Republican Governor Charles Thone was finally forced...
...fact that we became militarily involved in Indochina during the Eisenhower Administration, not, as he implies, under Kennedy. We began sending arms, equipment and military advisers to South Viet Nam in the 1950s. The first U.S. soldiers were killed by the Viet Cong in 1959. Thomas J. Carraher Norfolk, Neb...
...tsui's archrival, Mitsubishi's Agrex Inc., boosted its own U.S. grain-trade investment by buying out Koppel Inc., the company's American partner, thereby becoming sole owner of a giant export elevator in Long Beach, Calif., along with elevators in Salina, Kans., and Enola, Neb. Other Japanese firms with U.S. grain-handling interests include Zen-Noh, a cooperative that is building an $88 million terminal outside New Orleans...
...centers, where the focus is on providing medical services such as physical and speech therapy; and "social" day care centers, which stress social and recreational activities, though they too may have nurses and therapists on staff. Costs range from $11.82 a day, at one notably inexpensive center in Lincoln, Neb., to $50, with additional charges where transportation is provided. Patients typically spend two or three days a week in day care. Nursing homes, by contrast, charge an average $30 to $40 a day, some as much as $70-seven days a week...