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American Caster, a furniture-equipment maker, was nabbed by the Los Angeles Toxic Waste Strike Force, a team formed of police, sheriff and sanitation and health officials. The unit has devised unusual penalties for big polluters. Among those caught was a Los Angeles franchise of Culligan International, which was found guilty of improper toxic-waste disposal. It had to supply free, bottled, purified water to several customers, and its president spent three months in jail and paid a $100,000 fine. Confessional ads are the latest strike-force tactic. Says Barry Groveman, who directs the special unit: "An ad like...
...Iowa: Waiting for the Sheriff...
After waiting all week for Sheriff Bill Shaw to carry out the seizure orders, Steffes was surprised when 13 lawmen from several counties arrived at the farm before 8 a.m. on Friday. Pat and Elmer were still in bed. The officers blocked off the access roads to the farm. Pat called some of her neighbors to let them know what was happening, but only a few hiked the half- mile from the nearest intersection in the cold weather. The Steffes did not resist, but cooperated only minimally with the sheriff. Workers hired by the bank loaded many of their pigs...
...When the auction began last Friday, some 150 farmers crowded around the steps of the courthouse in Gove, Kans. (pop. 140). Sheriff Dean Baum began reading off the legal orders under which the personal property of C. David Jensen and his wife Virginia, both 54, would be sold to satisfy an unpaid debt of $180,000 to the Citizens State Bank of nearby Grainfield. Someone threw snowballs at one of the sheriff's deputies, and someone else shouted at the assembled officials: "Why don't you go out and steal them?" That was a reference to the two cars, three...
...Citizens State Bank bid $89,000 for everything, the only bid offered. (The rule was designed to stymie a common practice at other forced sales in which local farmers would bid only token sums for many items and then hand them back to their former owners.) Said the sheriff: "Going once, going twice. Sold...