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calls for a new department and a full-time director to administer and enforce the law. A new commission comprised of nine members, one from each reservation district, also would be created to guide the director, buy the alcohol, open and operate the liquor stores, hire employees and investigate violations.
• Tribal leaders acknowledge the document needs to be debated and amended before taking effect.
• Both sides in the debate do agree something must be done to limit the scourge of alcohol on the Lakota people. They also share a goal of putting out of business the current main suppliers of booze -- four stores in Whiteclay, Neb., two miles south of Pine Ridge, that sell millions of cans of beer a year.
• Many tribal members live on Whiteclay's barren streets to avoid arrest on the reservation for being drunk.
• "Whiteclay is going to feel a pinch in their pocket book. Not right away. But it's going to affect them, it's going to hurt them," Eagle Bull said.
• One of the owners contacted by The Associated Press didn't want to comment. Another couldn't be reached.
• Federal law bans the sale of alcohol on Native American reservations unless the tribal council allows it. Pine Ridge legalized alcohol for two months in 1970s, but the ban was quickly restored. An attempt to lift prohibition in 2004 also failed.
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Gen. David C. Jones, ex-Joint Chiefs chair, dies
The Associated Press
• STERLING, Va. (AP) -- David C. Jones, a retired Air Force general who helped set in motion a far-reaching reorganization of the U.S. military command while serving as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has died at 92.
• The general's son, David Curtis Jones, said Wednesday that his father died Saturday at a military retirement community in Potomac Falls, Va. He had Parkinson's disease.
• The New York Times reports (http://nyti.ms/1cOF0V1) that Jones served longer than any predecessor on the Joint Chiefs, first as the Air Force chief of staff and then as chairman from 1978 to 1982. He appeared on the cover of Time magazine in October 1979, with the magazine describing him as "cool, meticulous, low-key and dogged." The article said "Jones typifies the new breed of military managers."
• Near the end of his second two-year term, Jones recommended a sweeping reorganization of the nation's military command, moving to strengthen the chairman's role while curbing rivalry among the services. Many of his suggestions were included in the 1986 Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act, (Continued on page 17)
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