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...enough, Kevin Costner has found himself on the defensive with a group of people who once called him a friend. The director and star of 1990's Dances with Wolves, which treated Native American culture so respectfully, is suddenly persona non grata among Sioux activists in South Dakota. The rift is over Costner's efforts to acquire 630 acres of federal property in the Black Hills--land the Sioux consider sacred and claim was illegally seized in 1877 by the U.S. government...
YITZHAK RABIN Election prospects for Israel's beleaguered PM are brighter following opposition rift...
Dartmouth ended up edging out Brown and Cornell, 46-51-52. Then there was a great rift, followed by Navy (116) and Harvard (118). The good news for the Crimson was that it again defeated its H-Y-P foes, as Princeton came in sixth at 135 and Yale finished eighth at an even 200. Goetze led all Harvard runners with a seventh-place finish (18:42) and was followed by Angell (21st), Sheppard-Sawyer (28), Fitzegerald (29) and Mikszewski...
...year-olds the right to vote. Another increased Social Security benefits and funding for food stamps. And several other bills, such as the Clean Air Act and an act to control water pollution, addressed environmental concerns. The differing political agendas of the Nixon administration and students signalled the growing rift between...
...Senate adopted its version of a balanced-budget resolution, but not before exposing a deep and potentially embarrassing rift in Republican ranks over the issue of tax cuts. Nearly half the G.O.P. Senators joined all their Democratic colleagues to defeat a $300 billion set of tax breaks proposed by presidential aspirant Phil Gramm and patterned after a recently approved House version. Opting for a vague promise of future tax cuts if a balanced budget yields extra savings, the Senate approved by a vote of 57 to 42 a somewhat less draconian program of spending cuts than did the House...