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IN Z3 Mi-WW1" irik'fim nil. Oakland's Stewart stops Boston 1 in COSTUMES What's hot for Halloween 1F BECISIOM 'SO A look at Austad vs. Stensland 1 Sarah Cannon, Sean Duffy as Simpson kids The Sunday Ti J1 -v iiaCBSKalCBir Oct. 7, 1990 Sioux Falls, South Dakota A Gannett Newspaper 1.25 1990 Argus Leader 8 months later, critics praise reconciliation gains Cloudy, cold High Low Xear of Reconciliatio 1 with a lot of guts in a redneck state like South Dakota to take the bull by the horns and say, 'Let's resolve the problems of the last 100 years and work to and whites, they took their battles to the courtrooms. And the lawyers got rich haggling over highway jurisdiction, law enforcement, taxation, and water, fishing to depend on local input, local projects taking place, people talking one to one." To a degree, that has happened.

Mitchell and Lower Brule have adopted each other as sister cities. Fifth-graders from St. Joseph Cathedral in Sioux Falls and St. Joseph Indian School in Chamberlain will spend time in each other's classrooms later this fall. Last July in Rapid City, Indians and whites walked and danced together in the streets at the Black Hills Northern Plains Powwow.

Mickelson says he was at the Fort Meade Veterans Administration hospital in Sturgis when the administrator there pointed with pride to a new colored window in ReconciliationSee 4A By STEVE YOUNG Argus Leader Staff Eight months ago, when the concept of racial reconciliation in South Dakota was still new, Paul Keller had his doubts. In Pierre, Gov. George Mick-elson and nine tribal leaders were declaring a new order in American Indian-white relations. But Keller looked out across his ranch on the Standing Rock Reservation and wondered if the divisions could ever be healed. "To be honest, at least here locally, there was a little bit of apprehension," Keller, 43, says of the reconciliation proclamation signed on Feb.

1. In north-central South Dakota, when back-alley diplomacy didn't settle arguments between Indians and hunting rights. The feelings engendered by those issues split the two peoples apart. "There has been an anti-Indian or anti-white attitude up here for a long time," says Tom Iron, a Standing Rock tribal council member from McLaughlin. "It's been passed on from generation to generation.

White man tells his son or daughter, 'Dirty Indians are no Or Indians say, 'Gol-darn white But reconciliation has actually helped change that, Iron and Keller say. When South Dakota takes note of Native American Day Monday, they say there really is reason to celebrate. "I was a pretty rough critic of Gov. Mickelson when this first came out," says Keller, a Democrat who sits on the Corson County Commission. "But he is the only governor I know of who has gotten tribes and local governments to sit down and have open discussions." Iron adds: "It takes a person Few people expected reconciliation to solve racism overnight in a state once referred to by American Indian Movement leaders as "the Mississippi of the North." When Mickelson accepted newsman Tim Giago's challenge to call for racial reconciliation, he said the best he could offer South Dakotans was an example.

"You can't legislate attitudes," Mickelson says. "Certainly, for this to be a success or failure, it's going 'lt)0O wto mum- xmmm nir i in i fflm it i 4. JS3 Today: Cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain. Northeast winds at 10 to 20 miles an hour. Tonight, cloudy with a 40 percent chance of light snow.

Monday: A 40 percent chance of rain. Highs, mid-40s to lower 50s. Lows, lower to mid-30s. Tuesday: Chance of rain. Highs, 50s.

Lows, 35 to 45. Wednesday: No precipitation forecast. Highs, 60s. Lows, 35 to 45. FULL REPORT.

2A Paper: Waite, others may be freed soon BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) Lebanon's leading newspaper reported Saturday that Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite and some other Westerners held hostage by pro-Iranian Shiite Moslem groups may be released this week. An-Nahar, which has a record of accurate reporting on the captives, attributed its short report to informed sources but did not identify them. The paper indicated that the releases would follow visits to Syria and possibly to Lebanon by Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati. "The release of a number of foreign hostages held in Lebanon, topped by Anglican Chrich envoy Terry Waite, is possible next week," An-Nahar said in its Saturday edition. Klan ex-leader loses Louisiana election NEW ORLEANS (AP) Sen.

J. Bennett Johnston won a fourth term Saturday, fending off a strong challenge from state Rep. David a former Klan leader. With 55 percent of the vote counted, Johnston, a Democrat, had 385,820 votes or 54 percent and Duke, a Republican, had 311,538 votes or 44 percent. Two minor Democratic candidates divided the remaining 3 percent: Nick Accardo had 11,456 votes or 2 percent and Larry Crowe had 7,800 votes or 1 percent.

Two minor Democratic candi In Louisiana's open primary system, all candidates run against each other regardless of party affiliation. Had no one captured a majority, Johnston and Duke would have met in a Nov. 6 runoff. First day of search fruitless at Loch Ness DRUMNADROCHIT, Scotland (AP) Hunters hoping to win a $477,500 reward participated Saturday in the first major search for the Loch Ness monster in three years. But there was no immediate sign of the legendary beast.

National oddsmakers at the William Hill Organization Ltd. have put up the cash 250,000 pounds, or $477,500 for the first person or team to discover "conclusive evidence" of the creature's existence. Four groups are taking part in the two-day search. They range from serious contestants to publicity seekers. The legend of the Loch Ness monster dates from A.D.

565 when St. Columba castigated the creature for attacking a follower. More than 4,000 sightings have been reported in modern times. An October 1987 sighting spawned the last major hunt. Tomorrow The Argus Leader visits one of Our Towns, Centerville.

Monday's Argus also takes a look at the six candidates running for Minnehaha County Commission. Argus Leader photo by LLOYD CUNNINGHAM CAR CRUNCH: This eastward view of 41st Street Friday shows the heavy traffic traveling on the street. About 30,000 cars travel on it every day. Interchanges may help traffic out of a jam Nation still without money WASHINGTON (AP) President Bush successfully vetoed legislation Saturday to restore the government's ability to spend money and presided over the gradual shutdown of non-essential services. House Democratic leaders marshaled a majority of votes, 260-138, but they fell short of the 266 votes i needed to override a veto.

Rep. Tim Johnson, voted to override Tourist Sites the veto. Closed. 2A Negotiators from BaHHHm the White House and Congress resumed negotiations on a package of spending cuts and tax increases that could win approval and end the impasse but not before tonight at the earliest. The president said he would no longer abide "business as usual" by the Democratic-controlled Congress.

He vetoed a bill that would have permitted the government to operate normally for another week. Democrats denounced the president's decision. "Unnecessary, unjustified and harmful," House Speaker Thomas Foley, said. Reflecting the importance of the budget fight and lawmakers' recent spate of long hours, the debate was unusually acrimonious. "Mr.

Speaker, there are snakes loose in the chamber," shouted Rep. Robert Dornan, after Democrats hissed during the reading of Bush's veto message. But Republicans were hissing moments later after Rep. Richard Durbin, said Bush's veto resulted in "treating 2 million federal workers like Saddam Hussein treats his so-called guests in Iraq." The House and Senate adjourned for the evening after the House vote, which made any Senate override action moot, but scheduled afternoon sessions for today to consider any new budget proposals. another at Louise Avenue and Interstate 229, should loosen up traffic on major streets in southwest lane country road lined by cornfields to a three-mile re-tail-and-restau-rant mega-strip of devel-o clogged with traffic during rush hour and on weekends.

The street now carries 30,000 cars a I Sioux Falls in the mall areas, says Steve Metli, city planning director. "There will 41st Street and drawn a focus to the traffic problem. Menards, which opened in April, and Wal-Mart, opening later this month, are adding more traffic to an area already crowded because of numerous restaurants, motels, retail stores and the nearby The Empire mall. The added traffic to those stores, especially Menards, has caused some complaints from people trying to get back onto 41st Street. "I come from Minneapolis, so I think anything with traffic is pretty relative," says Randy Gilbert, manager of Menards.

"It's sometimes difficult to get onto 41st, but I talked to the city and they plan to put lights in at Shirley Avenue." Some customers will drive across the Wal-Mart parking lot east to get onto Louise Avenue, where there are traffic signals at 41st StreetSee 2A By CRIS MOLLISON Argus Leader Staff Forty-first Street is the Sioux Falls fast lane, the richest retail strip in South Dakota and a nightmare for drivers. "It's horrendous. I've lived in this area all my life and I've never seen the traffic like this," says Doug Jorgenson, who manages apartments on 53rd Street. "Even 49th Street is getting as bad as 41st." "I think it's really busy and I think the drivers are rude, too," says Laura Outcelt, who moved to Sioux Falls in June and lives on South Louise Avenue. "I'm originally from the Twin Cities and I thought it would be a lot slower." The southwest area of town has been growing steadily and rapidly since the late 1960s, spurred by the opening of the Western Mall in 1968 and The Empire in 1975.

The key artery has been 41st Street, which over the last quarter century has turned from a two- day, making it one of the busiest routes in South Dakota. Forty-ninth Street, built a half-mile south to siphon off the traffic, carries another 18,000 cars a day to nearby commercial and residential areas. City planners acknowledge the crunch but say that two projects could relieve traffic by the mid-1990s. Two interchanges, one at Interstate 29 and 26th Street and be a whole new loop with Louise Avenue," Metli says. "It's going to take pressure off all of the areas." The projects will aid development in the area north of 41st Street to the Big Sioux River.

But until then, motorists will have to fight the traffic or choose other routes. Two new department stores on Louise and Shirley avenues have accelerated development north of Discovery sends Ulysses to explore sun Shuttle launch Saturday first it streaking back toward the sun. In 1994, Ulysses will pass over the sun's south pole, then curve over the north solar pole. The sun's poles cannot be seen from Earth and have never been explored. Discovery's mission is scheduled to last four days, with a landing Wednesday in California.

The launch wasn't affected by the shutdown of many federal agencies because funds for the mission already had been set aside, officials said. The launch came after months of frustration. A mysterious hydrogen fuel leak, still unsolved, forced a series of launch cancellations for space shuttles Columbia and Atlantis. NASA's last previous launch was April 24, when Discovery took off. Two weeks ago, NASA was embarrassed when workers left a 70-pound metal beam inside the engine compartment of Atlantis, which caused some minor damage when it clanked around inside as the spacecraft was lifted and rotated by a crane.

The smooth launch on Saturday was a boost for NASA's morale, launch director Bob Sieck said. in almost six months CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) Space shuttle Discovery rocketed into orbit Saturday, carrying Americans into space for the first time in nearly six months and starting the robot craft Ulysses on a five-year solar exploration voyage. The five-man crew smoothly accomplished its primary goal, casting off Ulysses exactly as planned. The probe then rocketed itself out of Earth's orbit at 34,130 miles an hour, the fastest speed ever for a man-made object.

The atomic-powered solar explorer started its independent voyage six hours after the shuttle was launched by dawn's early light. Ulysses will follow a roundabout path, first cruising away from the sun toward Jupiter. The powerful gravity pull of that giant planet will act like a slingshot, accelerating the probe and sending inside J. i-A: I 134 pages Movies 5F Business Sec.D Obituaries 2E Channels Opinion S-9A Classified Sec.C Life Sec.F Comics Sioux Empire Sec.E Crossword 4D Sports Sec. Ann Landers 4F Weather 2A AP photo from Kennedy Space shuttle Discovery blasts off early Saturday morning was on board.

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