Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...With far less snowfall than usual, the West is suffering from a prolonged drought. A shortage of water is imperiling winter wheat and other crops; fears are growing that hydroelectric power will decrease in the spring. Water is already being rationed in parts of California (see following story). In Oregon, forest fires have broken out. "Some say the world will end in fire," wrote Robert Frost, "some say in ice." Last week Americans had their choice of disasters. If that is not enough, they soon may undergo trial by water. When the massive snowdrifts melt in the warming weather, torrential...
Speakers at the conference will include Thomas Tureen, the lawyer for the Passamoquoddy/Penobscot tribes in their successful lawsuit against the state of Maine, and Dr. Helen Redbird Selam, a professor at the Monmouth School of Education in Oregon and a member of the Cherokee tribe...
...prospective HEW Secretary, reaffirmed his opposition to using federal funds to pay for any woman's abortion. "What you're saying is that if she is poor and can't afford a private abortion, then it's just tough luck, isn't it?" asked Oregon Republican Bob Packwood...
...George Doty, Fern cost $500,000 but already has grossed $8 million. It starred Dayton's 16-year-old nephew, Stewart Petersen. who has become a fixture in many D-D films, and James Whitmore. Next came Seven Alone, about orphans struggling to survive on the Oregon Trail. It cost $500,000, starred Aldo Ray and has pulled in $12 million...
...claim to Louisiana, that and other foreign claims had been effectively undermined by the great western movement of Americans and the free communities they quickly founded. But the consolidation of their pioneering achievements was made possible by those negotiations and by subsequent diplomatic successes. The annexation of Florida, the Oregon boundary settlement with Great Britain, the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, the Gadsden Purchase, the purchase of Alaska from Russia−all were triumphs of diplomacy during decades when most citizens believed America did not have, or need, a foreign policy...