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Michigan's Republican Congressman Guy Vander Jagt elevates the tax issue to geophysical dimensions. "It is a tidal wave," he says, after a week of listening to complaints on a trip from Florida to California. Oklahoma's Democratic Representative James R. Jones finds signals of desperation among small businessmen and wage earners. The burdens of state and local taxes are at the breaking point, they say. Then from Washington comes the message of immense increases in the Social Security bite and the series of proposed energy taxes that would reach right back into the pocketbooks of middle-class...
...Oklahoma: Altus Dam on the North Fork of the Red River needs a new dike...
...chose different roads many years back and must now deal with the consequences. The ambitious one (Anne Bancroft) has become a great star, is now fading, and fighting it. Her friend (Shirley MacLaine) may have been as talented, but she married, had children, is running a ballet school in Oklahoma. Shirley has always wondered whether she too might have been famous if she had stayed on with the Company-collectively portrayed by the American Ballet Theater. Meantime, her daughter (Leslie Browne) has grown into a talented dancer, and when the Company comes to town she is offered a place with...
Karen Silkwood, a worker at the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant in Crescent, Oklahoma, collected documented evidence of her company's violations of health, safety, and quality standard rules...
They are also charging four FBI officials for covering up the facts in their investigation. A federal court in Oklahoma will try the case next April...