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• Sabrina King of Dakota Rural Action said the organization opposes the rules because they would impose too great a burden on raw milk producers.
• "These rules do nothing to promote raw milk. They may just regulate it out of existence," King said.
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Public vote set on legalizing booze on Pine Ridge
• PINE RIDGE, S.D. (AP) -- The Oglala Sioux Tribe Election Commission has scheduled a vote on legalizing alcohol on the dry Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
• The special election is set for Tuesday, Aug. 13.
• The Tribal Council in June approved a public referendum on whether to legalize alcohol on the southern South Dakota reservation, where residents sneak in beer and liquor from nearby towns such as Whiteclay, Neb., and alcoholism is rampant.
• Federal law bans the sale of alcohol on American Indian reservations unless a tribal council allows it. Previous efforts to legalize alcohol on the Pine Ridge reservation have failed.
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AP News in Brief
Clashes with security near pro-Morsi rally in Cairo leave at least 38 dead
• CAIRO (AP) -- Overnight clashes between security forces and supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi in east Cairo left at least 38 protesters dead on Saturday, a doctor at the demonstrators' field hospital said. They followed a day of massive pro-military rallies backing a tough hand against Morsi's backers and the Muslim Brotherhood group from which he hails.
• The violence close to the Morsi supporters' month-old sit-in near the Rabaah al-Adawiyah Mosque in east Cairo is one of the deadliest bouts of violence in Egypt's turmoil following the 2011 popular uprising. It also comes almost three weeks after more than 50 people, mostly demonstrators, died in a similar outbreak of violence outside a military installation near the same sit-in.
• Doctor Yehia Mikkia said Saturday's casualties -- mostly gunshot and birdshot wounds to the upper part of the body -- have overwhelmed the hospital operating from the sit-in. He said the number of death is likely to be higher because other casualties were transported to different hospitals.
• The state news agency MENA quoted an unnamed senior security official saying that the security forces had not used gunfire against the protesters, only tear gas. (Continued on page 31)
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