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The Nation - News from Jan. 25, 1988

A cold front blew snow across the eastern Dakotas, Nebraska and Minnesota, reducing visibility to near zero, blocking roads with snowdrifts and causing temperatures to plunge. Travel conditions were poor throughout the Red River Valley along the Minnesota and North Dakota border. Gov. Rudy Perpich ordered a Minnesota Army National Guard unit to help search for stranded motorists and assist ambulances in one northwestern county, a Guard spokesman said. A 27-year-old woman and her 2-year-old child were reported missing. They had last been seen driving on a county road in mid-afternoon, said a Polk County sheriff’s dispatcher.

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