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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Howell, director of the Southeastern Utah Association of Local Governments: "Usually, you can't even get an audience in Washington unless you've already been impacted. If you go to them well prepared and say, 'We expect this much development to happen and so we will need this much money,' they say, 'Fine, come back and ask us when you've been...
...past year. Says Sheriff Leonard Hysell: "We're desperate for detectives." With school enrollment up 20% from 1979, most of the $1 million in funds voluntarily contributed by Amoco and Chevron are long gone, mostly for buses and classrooms. Roads torn up by the big rigs need constant repairing, and traffic jams a quarter of a mile long clog downtown streets. "We are suddenly loaded down with a lot of big city problems," says City Manager Steve Snyder. Adds Mayor Dennis Ottley: "It's driving us all crazy...
Housing is probably the town's most urgent need. An aging, one-story house costs $80,000; there are so few places to rent that a resident who offered to lease his chicken coop for $85 a month promptly found a tenant. The town's 2,500 trailer spaces are filled, and the waiting list runs into the hundreds. Doug Melton, 26, moved from California several months ago and works as an oilfield laborer, but he and his brother David live in a tepee seven miles out of town. Says Melton: "No way am I going...
...secret summit. They later issued a rambling communiqué expressing confidence that Poles "will be able to overcome the present difficulties." The statement also noted that Poland "can firmly count on" the support of its East bloc brethren, meaning that the Soviets were still ready to step in if need...
...subdue Poland, the Soviets would need at least 35 divisions, according to military planners in Washington. Such a force could be mustered without seriously weakening the Warsaw Pact's western flank, since the Soviets have 30 divisions near their own border with Poland, another 19 in East Germany, Poland's eastern neighbor, and five in Czechoslovakia to the south...