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Like Reagan, Sandra O'Connor has spent many of her happiest days on a Western ranch, riding horses and even roping steers. Her parents, Harry and Ada Mae Day, operated a 260-sq.-mi. cattle spread straddling the New Mexico-Arizona border. Called the Lazy B, it had been in the Day family since 1881 -three decades before Arizona became a state. Her grandfather had traveled from Vermont to found it. Sandra, first of the Days' three children, was born in an El Paso hospital because the remote area in which they lived had no medical facilities; their...
These days there are ample signs that the ghosts, along with other problems, are haunting Argentina's ruling military circles. The land they govern is vast (over 1 million sq. mi.), sparsely populated (28 million people), and has long been one of the great granaries and beef exporters in the world. But Argentina's ceaselessly turbulent politics, oscillating for decades between chaotic populism and military dictatorship, have kept the country from realizing its enormous potential. Today, the Argentine economy is deteriorating badly. The inflation rate, for years the world's highest, had declined from...
...shadow of the Rocky Mountains on the rolling terrain of Browning, Mont., sits a squat, 40,000-sq.-ft. powder-blue building that houses a most unusual factory. The clattering machines that each day churn out 600,000 pens, pencils and markers are ordinary enough, but the work force is special. The warehouse manager, for example, is Donald Little Bull, and the second-shift supervisor is Le-Roy Bullshoe. The chief executive is Chief Earl Old Person, 52, head of the Blackfeet tribe and chairman of the Blackfeet Indian Writing...
Michigan's prison troubles are not unique. A Justice Department-sponsored study reports that nearly two-thirds of all state and federal prisoners live in facilities that are considered overcrowded. That is, they afford each prisoner less than 60 sq. ft. of living space; the American Medical Association and the American Public Health Association consider that to be a minimum standard if serious mental and physical problems are 1 to be avoided. Conditions in the nation's city and county jails are even worse; another federal study says that 80% of the inmates in these institutions have less...
...Supreme Court is about to answer. It will rule on a suit, Rhodes vs. Chapman, filed in 1975 by Kelly Chapman, an armed robber held at Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville. He contended that the one-man cell he shared with another prisoner gave him only 32 sq. ft. of personal space...