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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...peacetime. Everywhere, the battle was being waged with rowboats, shovels and sand. On Kaskaskia Island, smack in the middle of the Mississippi 75 miles south of St. Louis, college students teamed with inmates from nearby Illinois' Menard state prison to shore up levees and prevent the historic site-Illinois' first state capital -from being immersed. The bridge linking the island to St. Marys, Mo., lay six feet under water...
...acre, which adds only pennies per ton to the total cost of obtaining coal. But local farmers and ranchers are not convinced, because reclamation is extremely difficult in the semiarid region (average rainfall: 14 in. per year). "If I used as much fertilizer as they did on that test site," says Rancher Wally McRae, "I could grow grass on the roof of my house...
...with a history of delays, many by the MBTA in vacating the site of the proposed Library, one more bucket of Charles River water has been added to the flood of difficulties...
...special review panel appointed by John H. Corcoran, Cambridge City Manager, has begun to examine the basic design of the Library, concentrating especially on the parking and traffic situation, the tax-generating potential of the site, and the placement of the Memorial plaza...
Wounded Knee may be short on buildings, but it is long on symbolism. The tiny hamlet was the site of the 1890 massacre, when the U.S. cavalry slaughtered over 200 Indians. The Indians killed in this battle are buried in a mass grave, located behind the Sacred Heart Catholic Church...