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lested by a priest were told to keep the abuse secret and go to confession.
• Auditors said the Province of St. Joseph has made dramatic improvements in recent years in its response to abuse claims, including reaching out with compassion to victims and their families, and spending far more on counseling and other support for victims than for legal defense.
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• Tribal land buy-back program starting
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Interior Department says it is ready to start a program to help Native American tribes buy parcels of reservation land that have accumulated multiple owners.
• The purchases announced Tuesday are part of the settlement of the Cobell lawsuit over government mismanagement of Indian land royalties.
• Outgoing Interior deputy secretary David Hayes says purchase offers should begin at the end of the year and speed up in coming years.
• The program will start with the Pine Ridge, S.D.; Crow, Mont. and Makah, Wash. reservations and the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate of South Dakota tribe and involve 10 to 12 tribes by year's end.
• Allotting reservation land to individual tribe members, who passed it to heirs, was once a government method for assimilating American Indians. Some parcels now have thousands of owners.
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Scientists discuss new photo-taking satellite
DIRK LAMMERS,Associated Press
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Nearly 120 scientists and engineers from around the world are meeting in South Dakota this week to discuss operational and technical issues with collecting images from the Landsat 8 satellite.
• The U.S. Geological Survey's Earth Resources Observation and Science Center north of Sioux Falls collects, archives and makes available for download more than 400 data-filled images of the Earth each day. The center also partners with a network of ground stations across the globe that help download and distribute the data.
• More than two dozen countries are represented at this week's meetings of the Landsat Ground Station Operators Working Group and the Landsat Technical Working Group in Sioux Falls, said Steven Labahn, the center's international ground station network manager.
• "The international cooperators have some very local expertise and knowledge about these special areas," Labahn said "We share information that improves the (Continued on page 25)
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