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• "It's a big honor, especially for the Lakota," Tribal President Bryan Brewer said. "The Navajo, they're real famous for their code talkers, but our story has always been kind of quiet. This is a once-in-a-lifetime deal for the families."
• The Congressional Gold Medal is one of the highest honors bestowed by Congress.
• "Drawing from their ancient heritage, the code talkers helped transform modern history through a system that was as effective as it was ingenious," U.S. Rep. Kristi Noem said. "It is long overdue that we recognize the power and relief these code talkers brought our county and Allied forces."
• Other South Dakota tribes being recognized are the Rosebud Sioux, Cheyenne River Sioux, Crow Creek Sioux, Lower Brule Sioux and Yankton Sioux. The Standing Rock Sioux and Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate, in South Dakota and North Dakota, also are being honored.
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AP News in Brief
More than 1,000 dead in typhoon onslaught in Philippines as storm aims at central Vietnam
• MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Rescuers in the central Philippines counted at least 1,000 people dead and many more injured Saturday, a day after one of the most powerful typhoons on record ripped through the region, wiping away buildings and leveling seaside homes with massive storm surges.
• With communications and roads still cut off, Capt. John Andrews, deputy director general of the Civil Aviation Authority, said he had received "reliable information" by radio from his staff that more than 1,000 bodies were lying in the streets of the city of Tacloban on hardest-hit Leyte Island. It was one of six islands that Typhoon Haiyan slammed into Friday.
• Regional military commander Lt. Gen. Roy Deveraturda said that the casualty figure "probably will increase," after viewing aerial photographs of the widespread devastation caused by the typhoon, which was heading toward Vietnam after moving away from the Philippines.
• Cabinet Secretary Rene Almendras, a senior aide to President Benigno Aquino III, said that the number of casualties could not be immediately determined, but that the figure was probably in the range given by Andrews. Government troops were helping recover bodies, he said.
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