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Broad Dismay. Howard ("Bo") Callaway, President Ford's former campaign manager, said Nixon had "shown a contriteness that I had not expected." To Oklahoma Republican Party Chairman Rick Shelby, Nixon was "candid and forthright about the mistakes he obviously made. We saw a side of Nixon we'd never seen before." Norfolk Tavern Owner Foster Strickland summed up the mixed feelings: "If he had a flat tire, I'd stop and help him fix it, but I don't think I would ever vote...
...supposed to sail on another exploratory mission this month, but its departure has been postponed. Ironically, the oil at Thassos is not only of poor quality but is also expensive to exploit, and petroleum experts are skeptical about how much oil there really is. "They think it's Oklahoma out there," says an American engineer. "But it looks like a bummer...
Things are better now. Buffett, 30, belongs to a wave of laid-back Dixie performers, including Oklahoma-born James Talley and Tennessean Sid Selvidge, who are just now getting wide recognition. Buffett's seventh album, Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes, is 20th among country LPs, and last month he packed off on tour as the opening act with the Eagles...
...Narragansetts in Rhode Island, the Oneidas in New York. The Catawbas of South Carolina contend they are entitled to 144,000 acres that embrace the cities of Rock Hill and Fort Mill. The roll call of litigant tribes is like a Whitmanesque iteration: Miccosukee, Sioux, Cheyenne, Chippewa. Seven Oklahoma tribes-Kaw, Ponca, Tonkawa, Pawnee, Otoe, Osage, Creek-are shaping up a suit to assert a collective claim to the bed-and attendant water rights-of the Arkansas River. Of hundreds of controversies, however, most turn not on claims to land but on issues of land use, of rights to minerals...
...order to accept the position at Harvard, Whiteman, a Southern Cheyenne Indian from Oklahoma, is taking a six-month leave of absence from the University of Montana in Missoula...