Means in Danger Says Attorney Kunstler Amid Shooting
Attorney William Kunstler says AIM leader Russell Means is in great danger after a weekend shooting near Cannon Ball on the Standing Rock Reservation. Means, shot in the abdomen, is in a Bismarck hospital and free on bond facing federal and Morton County charges as he criticizes political motives behind the case.
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American Indian Movement
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BIA
Morton County
Closing prison seen as only solution for Stillwater ills
Minnesota corrections ombudsman Theartrice Williams tells a legislative panel that Stillwater Prison should be closed and replaced with smaller humane facilities. He cites fortress conditions, inmate drug use, and lack of police response as major problems. The committee plans a four month study with a $10 000 to $12 000 budget.
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Minnesota Corrections Ombudsman
Theartrice
Williams
Stillwater
St. Cloud Reformatory
Minnesota
Banks hit in Twin Cities with six arrests
FBI said six people were arrested in three related bank incidents in the Twin Cities area. A four-person group from Minneapolis and St. Paul was charged with conspiring to rob Capitol City State Bank in St. Paul. One man was charged with robbing West St. Paul State Bank, and another with violating the federal bank larceny statute. About $2,000 was taken in the West St. Paul holdup.
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Nolan T. Robinson
Minneapolis
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Yvonne Stevens
Charles D. Buchanan
Richard J. Chrysler Jr
Mendota Heights
West St. Paul State
Ray Anthony Daugherty
Enlow
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First Federal Savings and Loan Office
Engineers demand will drain supply in coming years
Rochester underlines a rising need for engineers as the University of Rochester predicts 5 000 to 6 000 engineering jobs will be created in the United States over the next three years. Assistant dean Carlyle Whiting notes the supply will not meet demand.
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United States
University of Rochester
Carlyle Whiting
College of Engineering and Applied Science
Public hearing eyed park traffic worries for Voyageurs area
About 125 people attended a National Park Service hearing on the Voyageurs Master Plan draft. Park Supt. Myrl Brooks said federal officers would handle park law enforcement, with local authorities policing outside the perimeter. Minnesota will seek federal funds to improve access roads, including U.S. 53, to accommodate visitors. Concerns were raised about traffic, safety, and possible lifestyle changes in northern Minnesota. The hearing resumed in Virginia, Minnesota.
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Voyageurs National Park
Minnesota
National Park Service
Myrl Brooks
St. Louis
Greg Sertich
Brooks
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U.S. 53
Virginia
Minn
Minnesota Weekend Forecast Temperatures Rise
The extended outlook calls for clear to partly cloudy skies from Saturday through Monday. Temperatures reach the mid 60s to mid 70s during the day with lows in the 40s in the north and 50s in the south.
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Minnesota
Imperial to be phased out by Chrysler amid luxury decline
Chrysler announces the Imperial line will be killed off as sales plunge and market shifts favor Cadillac and Lincoln. Industry sources say the 1976 model will be scrapped this fall with body and design shifting to the New Yorker Brougham, and high end features dropped or offered as options.
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Chrysler
U.S
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Lincoln
United Auto Workers
Imperial
Snyder Drugs censured for misleading drug price ad in Minnesota
Minnesota Pharmacy Board censured Snyder Drugs for a misleading May and June price ad in St Paul and Minneapolis papers. The $5.99 cyproheptadine offer prompted questions of pricing, whether the drug sold at that price, and the board urged Snyder to avoid similar ads.
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Minnesota Pharmacy Board
Snyder Drugs
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Snyder
Tom Berg
Oregon Territory Acquisition Through Treaty in 1846
The Oregon Territory was acquired by treaty from England ending joint occupation of 255,580 square miles in 1846.
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Oregon Territory
Four Indicted in River Villa Nursing Home Case
A special grand jury indicted four persons in an investigation of the former River Villa nursing home in southeast Hennepin County. The indictments were filed before Chief Judge Douglas K. Amdahl and remain sealed pending arraignment. River Villa, renamed Prospect Park Care Center after its sale last month, was Minnesota’s largest privately operated facility.
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Minneapolis, Minn
River Villa
Minneapolis
Hennepin County
Douglas K. Amdahl
Prospect Park Care Center
No Founder Hinduism Holds 300 Million Adherents in India
The piece notes Hinduism in India has over 300 million adherents and no founder. It calls Hinduism possibly the oldest religion, dating to prehistoric times, contrasting it with religions that have identifiable founders.
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