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Reagan apologizes to Kiester
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ? President Reagan has apdlogized
to a freshman congressman for using the word "keister" to
describe the human posterior.
Ren. Tim Pennv. a native of Kiester. Minn., said Mnnrlav
he received a letter of apology last week in response to a letter
he wrote in May about Reagan statements he deemed offensive
to his hometown.
In one speech, Reagan had said he was fed up to his keister
with news leaks. In another, the president said he wished
bankers would get off their keisters and lower interest rates.
"I resolve to never use that honored name again in that context,"
Reagan wrote to Penny.
"In all these years I have never known it was a proper name.
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and tell them I ask forgiveness."
Although the two words are prononuced the same, they are
spelled differently. In Kiester, Minn., a little town of 681 people
near the Iowa border, the "i" is before the "e."
"Your comments have unfortunately caused some confusion
and distress in our area," Penny, a Democrat, had written
to Reagan.
"P.S. A map of Minnesota is attached. Kiester is circled at
the bottom."
Penny said he was satisfied with the apology and plans to
meet with Reagan next month to present him an official
Kiester Jaycees cap.
Friendly alligator to go to zoo
ANDERSON (AP) ? Farmer Charlie Stevenson says he is
giving Waldo, his pet alligator of nearly two decades, to a
nearby zoo because the 10-foot reptile is so friendly.
"1 hate to see her go," said the 86-year-old Stevenson, who
kept the alligator in a pond on his farm. "She has been my pet
for 18 years. She is just one of the family. She has a friendly
disposition."
But the alligator, which local legend says was brought to the
county by a youngster returning from Florida, had grown so
large that the family feared for its safety.
Stevenson's wife said the family feared the creature would
walk up to a stranger or a young child unaccustomed to seeing
such a sight and scare them.
"When people were fishing, they would lay a fish they had
caught on the bank and Waldo would come up, eat it and go
back in water," Mrs. Stevenson explained.
Stevenson and several state wildlife officers lured Waldo in
to a bear cage early Tuesday.
Waldo is expected to go on exhibit at the Anderson County
Fair for the next two weeks before being taken to the Greenville
Zoo.
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and the battle isn't expected to end any
time soon.
Two years ago, a special master for
the U.S. Supreme Court heard
arguments in the dispute, which means
more than simply which channel in the
river belongs to which state.
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boundary into offshore waters with
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The report must be filed with the
U.S. Supreme Court, but it hasn't
been finished and a spokesman in Hoffman's
office says no date has been set
for completing it.
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general's office said it could be
months.
Georgia Attorney General Mike
Bowers said he doesn't know when a
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report is in, there's no appeal of the
high court's ruling.
The dispute dates back to land grant
maps and surveyors' charts from the
early 1700s. The river has meandered
over the last 250 years and has changed
the location of certain landmarks on
the charts, causing a question as to the
exact location of the border.
In 1977, Georgia filed suit, seeking
3,000 acres of land and 10,000 acres of
water near the mouth of the river. Any
decision would also affect the location
of the border 200 miles into the
Atlantic.
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