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Groton Daily Independent
Saturday, June 09, 2018 ~ Vol. 25 - No. 330 ~ 26 of 59
Sanford Sports Complex adds golf facility
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Sanford Sports Complex is adding a $12 million indoor golf entertainment facility.
Great Shots will have an interactive driving range, a video game area for children, a restaurant and meeting space. Developers say the driving range will have three floors of bays to hold up to 60 golfers at a time.
The facility will also house Sanford POWER Golf Academy that will include research space for the Sanford Sports Science Institute to study injury prevention and performance in golf.
Construction is expected to start this fall. The Argus Leader reports Great Shots is scheduled to open by fall of 2019.
Man sentenced for assaulting federal officer on reservation
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A man who punched a tribal officer in the face on the Pine Ridge Indian Reserva- tion last fall has been sentenced to two years in federal prison.
The U.S. attorney’s office says 24-year-old Franklin Long Black Cat, of Pine Ridge, assaulted the officer last October. He was indicted by a federal grand jury in December and later convicted of assault on a federal officer.
Long Black Cat will be on supervised release for three years following his prison term.
Tough talk: US envoys on how to negotiate with North Korea By MATTHEW PENNINGTON, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s Singapore summit with Kim Jong Un may be unprec- edented, but during a quarter-century of on-off nuclear talks with North Korea, U.S. officials have learned a thing or two about dealing with an inscrutable adversary and have tried many tactics to get their way: quiet persuasion, black humor and even walking out of the room.
Across the table, they’ve faced dogged North Korea negotiators who launch into anti-American tirades, reflecting a doctrinaire mindset and the vast ideological gulf between two nations still technically at war. But they’ve also encountered officials who are polite, know their brief inside-out, and occasionally flash wit.
As Trump prepares to meet with Kim on Tuesday, there’s uncertainty about how the two headstrong leaders will get along and whether the former real estate mogul can extract nuclear concessions from the young North Korean autocrat. Four former U.S. officials reflect here on their own, often-difficult experience of negotiating with North Korea.
GONE WITH THE WIND
Starting in mid-1993, Robert Gallucci led the U.S. in direct talks with North Korea, seeking to rein in its then-nascent nuclear program. The first meeting took place in New York, on the top floor of the U.S. Mission to the United Nations.
Gallucci, then an assistant secretary of state, recalled that the Americans were taken aback by the sight of a dozen or so North Korean diplomats, each one with a lapel pin with a picture of their supreme leader. “You can imagine us going into a meeting with lapel pins with Bill Clinton’s picture? It’s just implausible. But that actually goes to something that’s quite important for people to understand,” said Gallucci, describ- ing North Korea as a cult of leadership as much as it is an authoritarian government. “And one forgets that at one’s peril. I think you can lose a lot of ground in discussion if you don’t understand how sensitive
they are about their leadership.”
To the Americans’ surprise, North Korea’s deputy foreign minister, Kang Sok Ju, during the talks quoted
from the epic American civil war novel, “Gone with the Wind.” It wasn’t the line immortalized by Clark Gable in the Hollywood movie — “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn,” Gallucci said, but rather “something to do with wagons rolling and dogs barking.” After the meeting, he gave Kang a copy of the book as a gift. Gallucci got a box of Korean ginseng tea in return.
Gallucci said the North Korean would use extreme and insulting language about America, and he’d push