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Although he was the only journalist at Wounded Knee formally charged with conspiracy to incite riot, Oliphant volunteered that "in a broader context" he had been arrested to "frighten away others or steer them away" from first-person coverage of the siege of the South Dakota town...
Troubled Pampas. Not even the traditionally quiet pampas are safe. Thomas Rattagan, 53, a rancher not far from Buenos Aires, predicted that at least part of the estancia that he has worked for 25 years will be expropriated. "A delegation of Peronistas came and demanded I give them a steer for their political fiesta," he said nervously. "Last time around, in the 1950s, I would have thrown them out. But this time there is no choice. I have to admit that I gave them the animal. You see, nobody controls Peronist youth...
...special energy message to Congress last month, President Nixon tried to steer a middle course while easing the shortages. He acted to increase supplies of foreign oil by abolishing the rigid import quota system and replacing it with a flexible system of tariffs on imported oil. To spur domestic output, Nixon ordered the Interior Department to triple by 1979 the amount of federal acreage leased to oil and gas companies. Moreover, the President asked Congress to drop price controls on new finds of natural gas, to extend investment tax credits on both dry and producing wells and to streamline time...
...operation is typical. Stratford's three yards are concentrated within a 30-mile radius, in keeping with Gow's belief in concentrated locations, and they feed a total of 150,000 head. (By December Gow plans to expand to 250,000.) The yards fatten a 650-lb. steer at the rate of 3.1 lbs. per day. Five months and some 490 lbs. later, the steer is shipped off to a packer. "It's a big operation," Gow says. "We have vets and nutritionists; the cattle are checked twice a day. We have a good drainage system, which...
Senior co-captains Gene LeBarre and Bill Mahoney return to the port side this year while junior Dave Fellows is back on the starboard side, and Dave Weinberg will steer for the second time...