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shot, according to the story.
• "Ray did not respond well to that authoritative direction," Buswell-Robinson said.
• The wounded Robinson was taken to a clinic, but the FBI hasn't pinned down what happened next.
• For decades, AIM leaders have denied knowledge of Robinson's death. One witness told agents that AIM leader Vernon Bellecourt, who died in 2007, knew Robinson had been killed and "made a statement to the effect that AIM had 'really managed to keep a tight lid on that one' over the years.'"
• AIM leader Dennis Banks did not return a message left by The Associated Press on Wednesday.
• Clyde Bellecourt questioned why the FBI wasn't spending its time investigating the many unsolved Native American deaths during Wounded Knee.
• "There's never been a grand jury hearing on any of them," he said.
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South Dakota panel OKs daily pledge in schools
CHET BROKAW, Associated Press
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- Students in all South Dakota public schools should recite the Pledge of Allegiance daily, a state legislative panel decided Wednesday.
• The State Affairs Committee voted unanimously to approve a measure that would require each public school district to give students the chance to recite the pledge each day. A student could choose not to take part, but would be required to maintain a respectful silence while others recite the pledge.
• The issue became a hot topic in the state after the Sioux Falls School Board decided last year not to extend the lower grades' daily pledge recitation to high schools. That led to a barrage of criticism from around the U.S. -- including death threats against some board members. The board later reversed course and asked high school students to recite the pledge daily.
• The bill's main sponsor, Rep. Hal Wick, R-Sioux Falls, said the bill is modeled after an Oregon law. He said reciting the pledge could mesh with veterans' groups programs that educate students about the pledge and the U.S. flag.
• Wade Pogany, director of the Associated School Boards of South Dakota, said that organization's members passed a resolution supporting the daily recitation of the pledge by students at all grade levels. School board members discussed whether such decisions should be left to local schools but decided to back the proposed state law, he said.
• "In our world, there are things that are more important than local control, and this is one of them," Pogany said.
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