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trate on the front of the mountain, the visitors' side," Monique Ziolkowski said.
• The invitation to undertake the carving came from Lakota Chief Henry Standing Bear, who was prompted by Gutzon Borglum's carving of nearby Mount Rushmore to seek a memorial for Indian heroes.
• In addition to completing the carved face, the Crazy Horse Memorial has built a welcome center, a comprehensive museum and one building of a planned Indian University of North America complex, where 32 students are about to start a fourth summer class program.
• "It'll be a few years yet before we can do the degree-granting full-time program," Ruth Ziolkowski said. "It's coming, and you have to take little steps first, as Korczak always said, in order to get to the big one.
• "But the important thing is we never stopped."
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2 men killed in Corson County crash on Sunday
• men killed in 1-vehicle crash in Corson County on Sunday; Highway Patrol investigating
• MOBRIDGE, S.D. (AP) -- Two men were killed in a one-vehicle crash in Corson County over the weekend.
• The South Dakota Highway Patrol says 61-year-old James Joseph Olesen, of Hot Springs, was driving east on 110th Street on Sunday morning when he lost control of his vehicle and it rolled into a ditch. Olesen and a passenger, 56-year-old Steven Michael Hatlestad, of Pierre, were thrown from the vehicle and died at the scene. Neither man was wearing a seatbelt.
• The South Dakota Highway Patrol is investigating.
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Black leaders weigh in, renaming work suspended
CHET BROKAW,Associated Press
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The South Dakota panel responsible for getting rid of offensive geographic names suspended work Tuesday on places using the word "Negro," after black leaders said the term isn't offensive and should be retained to reflect African-Americans' contributions to the state's history.
• Five Black Hills sites include the word. The Board on Geographic Names met in Pierre to consider replacement names, suggested by the public, but delayed the process until they can gather more public comment.
• Officials from the South Dakota African American History Museum in Sioux Falls (Continued on page 19)
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