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...about 3,000 acres of prime land in west-central Illinois, near Galesburg, that is worth about $10 million. His operation includes 6,000 hogs in a farrow-to-finish operation. He also had the backing of Kansas Senator Robert Dole, who sent a map of the U.S. to Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt, one of Reagan's closest advisers, that was marked with states from which Cabinet members had already been picked. Wrote Dole in an accompanying note: "Paul, this blank space is called the Midwest...
...views of the world, which the New York Times thought so little known that it labeled him "vague Haig." But Reagan has always been high on Haig, and when the Democrats promised to challenge the appointment, he figured he had no alternative but to stand and fight. Said Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt, an adviser to Reagan: "We felt that we shouldn't be intimidated by the confirmation process. We should send out some positive signals to the country and to the world." Both Presidents Ford and Nixon had pressed for Haig's appointment. So had Kissinger, who said...
...local government officials, state lawmakers and ranchers, the Sagebrush movement is attempting to wrest control of as much as 400 million acres of the land now owned by the Federal Government. Several states, including Utah, Arizona and Wyoming, have passed resolutions laying claim to their federal land, and Nevada is planning to sue the Department of Interior and the Bureau of Land Management to win the rights to the federal land within its boundaries...
Republican control of the new U.S. Senate has also increased the influence of such fellow "rebels" as Paul Laxalt of Nevada and Jake Garn and Orrin Hatch of Utah. Sagebrush Rebellion leaders now plan to concentrate their battle for control of the federal lands in Congress, where both Hatch and Nevada's Democratic Representative Jim Santini have introduced bills that would set up a commission to establish an "orderly process" for transferring land to the states. Though they have little
...expectation of getting such legislation passed in the near future, Nevada State Assemblyman Dean Rhoads expresses their optimism when he says: "Because of the November election, it's a whole new ball game...