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JAMES ABOUREZK, 39, Democrat, S.D., the son of a Lebanese pack peddler, was born and raised on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation. A Stevenson-Kennedy liberal who became the first Democrat elected from his district in 37 years, he defeated an opponent who advocated "obliterating Hanoi." A foe of the seniority system, he is aiming for the Interior Committee to work on Indian affairs...
...SIOUX FALLS, S. D., Sept, 29-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew denounced the President's commission on campus unrest report as "imprecise, contradictory, and equivocal...
...deceived. It is the classic stratagem of genocide to camouflage their wars as law and order police actions. Remember the Sioux, and the German Jews, and the Marijuana Pogroms, and the pious TWA indignation of airline hijacking...
...Northern Ireland, where the anniversary of the 1690 Battle of the Boyne River offered an excuse for a renewed outbreak of religious warfare between Protestants and Catholics, the new government deployed one of the largest security details ever assembled in the British Isles. There were Sioux helicopters, Saracen armored cars, 11,000 troops imported from posts as far away as Malta and West Germany and 7,000 police. As one senior army officer put it, "a sparrow could not have coughed without being arrested." Though more than 100,000 Protestants donned bowler hats for Orange Order parades in such potential...
...year, a slew of movies will treat the Indian in his new role of social victim. Among them: Arthur Penn's Little Big Man, Ralph Nelson's bloody Soldier Blue (TIME, Feb. 2), and Mike Cimimino's The Conquering Horse, which will be shot entirely in Sioux and furnished with subtitles. Each, in its own way, will vary the theme of A Man Called Horse; the western is not dead; it is just rolling over...