Word: sheridan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Charles R. Nesson '60, professor of Law, argued the motion for Boudin yesterday before Chief U.S. District Court Judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, Michael H. Sheridan...
...Judge Sheridan did not rule on the motion yesterday, but ordered that Herman Dixon-the trial judge in the Harrisburg case-hear the motion, and the government's reply to it, on Monday...
...sportsmen" who left the carcasses to rot. The destruction of the buffalo broke the cultural, ecological and spiritual links in the chain of Indian existence. This was not without its uses. "Let them kill, skin and se'l until the buffalo is exterminated." said General Philip Sheridan, a Civil War hero. "It is the only way to bring lasting peace and allow civilization to advance...
...civilization Sheridan was concerned about continues to advance. A recent report by the N.A.A.C.P. and Harvard's Center for Law and Education charged that federal funds appropriated for Indian education have been siphoned off for white schools. The discovery of immense oil deposits on Alaska's North Slope threatens to uproot thousands of Eskimos, Aleuts and Indians. In Custer State Park in the Black Hills of South Dakota, the buffalo have grown so numerous that the state allows hunting. A license to shoot buffalo costs $500. There are no discounts to Indians...
Addis Attaché. Proxmire's case is strongest when most specific. Among other examples, he cites a $4 billion cost overrun for the Minuteman II ICBM; a quadrupling of the original estimated price for the nuclear carrier Nimitz; hundreds of millions misspent on the bug-infested Sheridan and MBT-70 tanks; the $2 billion jump-to more than $5 billion-in the cost of C-5A Galaxy cargo planes...