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...industry but for federal funds. As chairman of the Southern Growth Policies Board, a 13-state coalition established in 1971, Busbee has become a leader of the South's resistance to efforts by the depressed Northern states to shift federal spending programs from the Sunbelt to the Snowbelt. Explains a Policies Board official: "We have to defend our region." Indeed, precisely that mood is spawning an unmistakable increase in a kind of petulant, poorer-than-thou sectionalism in many parts...
Snowmobilers have been accused of everything from terrorizing wildlife to vandalizing hunters' cabins. From Alaska to Maine, the nation's 19 snowbelt states are passing or planning new laws to regulate the noisy off-road machines. But even if all drivers are eventually licensed, they seem likely to cause more damage-at least to themselves. Last year 84 U.S. snowmobilers died in accidents ranging from train collisions to falling through thin ice. Reasonably prudent drivers, in fact, can be hurt by merely emulating the ads and "flying" their new toys well above ground...