State tribal clash over mine reclamation jurisdiction
Gov Bruce King and Navajo officials dispute whether New Mexico may regulate coal surface mining within the Navajo Reservation. King cites 1972 regulation of reclamation by the state and notes tribal objections to inspections without tribal permission. tribal leaders declined to comment on the dispute.
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Neil Thompson
Eastern Bureau
Thoreau
Bruce King
Navajo Reservation
Peter
MacDonald
Navajo Tribal Council
King
Congress
State Bureau of Surface Mining
Harold Tso
Tso
Jack Reynolds
Bureau of Surface Mining
Navajo Nation
State of New Mexico
Navajo Lands
Utah International
Navajo
Pittsburg
Midway
McKinley
New Mexico Coal Surface Mining Commission
T'so
Reynolds
Commission
New Mexico Mining and Minerals
The
Environmental Protection Commission
McKinley County youngest in New Mexico census data
Statewide median age is 27.4 with McKinley at 22 and San Juan at 24.2. Sierra County records the highest median age at 49 due to retirees. Housing values show Los Alamos highest at 77,000 while Harding County remains lowest at 10,600. Valencia and Cibola could not be broken out.
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Santa Fe Bureau
Santa FE
McKinley County
New Mexico
San Juan County
Sierra County
Census Bureau
Valencia
Cibola County
Los Alamos County
Bernalillo County
Harding County
Two men sentenced in Wendell Merrill death
Two men faced sentencing in district court over the death of former McKinley County Sheriff Wendell Merrill in a June crash near Gallup. David Lee pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide while DUI and drew 18 months with a 60 day minimum, plus city-jail start January 4 and two years probation. Jerry Thompson pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide and received 90 days in city jail with a $100 fine, suspended, and 90 days probation. He drove the second vehicle. Lee drove a southbound truck that passed a second truck on the shoulder, forcing Merrill’s vehicle into its path.
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Gallup
McKinley County
Wendell Merrill
David Lee
Brimhall
Louis DePauli
New Mexico State Penitentiary
Santa Fe
DePauli
Lee
Field Services Division
Corrections and Criminal Rehabilitation Department
Merrill
N.M. 32
Jerry Thompson
Crownpoint
Thompson
McKinley County Sheriff's Office
Mexican Springs woman hurt in fall from pickup
A Mexican Springs resident Janet Barney, 27, was pushed from a pickup near Fifth Street in Gallup Saturday night. She complained of leg and back injuries, was treated at the scene by EMS, then taken to Gallup Indian Medical Center and later released. Barney did not identify the driver or describe the vehicle.
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Gallup
Mexican Springs
Janet Barney
Fifth Street
Barney
Gallup Emergency Medical Services
Gallup Indian Medical Center
Milan
Italy
Red Brigades
U.S
James Dozier
Vietnam
NATO
Verona
Dozier
Europe
Reagan Campaign Audit Finds No Action Taken By FEC
Final FEC audit on Reagan 1980 campaign finds no repayment order despite recommendations to probe mingling of party and campaign funds. Report notes mis handling of RNC money but concludes combined spending stayed within limits and action not warranted.
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Washington
Federal Election Commission
Reagan
Campaign ‘Committee
U.S. Treasury
FEC
Associated Press
Freedom of Information Act
Republican National Committee
Reagan Committee
Republican
Commission
RNC
Secret Service
Party
Inside today no more gunboats warning on Poland
The paper notes President Reagan warns the Soviet Union that further meddling in Polish affairs may trigger economic sanctions. The opinion piece argues gunboat diplomacy fails against superpowers.
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Reagan
Soviet Union
Low Mountain backs Zah for Navajo chairman post
The Low Mountain Chapter unanimously endorses DNA People's Legal Service Director Peterson Zah for tribal chairman. A 127-0 vote passed a resolution Tuesday. Zah has not formally announced but says he is almost positive he will run.
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Kathie Saltzstein
Low Mountain
Zah
DNA
Zabi
Taylor McKenzie
Shiprock
Churchrock
McKinley County Board of Commissioners
Jack Jackson
St. Michaels
Peter MacDonald
Tribe
Election Commission
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Miami
New York City
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