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...normally quiet hillside street in Clairton, Pa., a detachment of 44 sheriff's deputies armed with billy clubs arrived last week at Trinity Lutheran Church. After pushing waiting reporters off the church lawn, Allegheny County Sheriff Eugene Coon pointed a chrome bullhorn at the gray stone building and snapped, "Those of you inside the church, do you hear me? You have a court order to vacate. Open the doors and come out!" There was no response. Half a dozen of the deputies then broke down the rear door and arrested four men and three women occupying the church in defiance...
...public that often regards the White House press corps as a pack of hounds baying at whatever misfortunate occupies the Oval Office, Donaldson can seem the loudest and meanest coon dog of all. He asked Carter whether he was competent to be President. (Donaldson's judgment: no.) He suggested to Reagan that his presidency was "failing" and asked if it was true that he had to be "dragged back to making realistic decisions" by aides. To lesser officials Donaldson can be, if anything, ruder: at a press conference preceding an international economic summit, when Secretary of State George Shultz...
...Court of Common Pleas Judge Nicholas Papadakos was concerned, Coon was indeed on good legal ground. The judge temporarily halted all mortgage foreclosures in the county. Said Papadakos of the sheriff: "He jumped in, and I'm glad he did. It gave me an opportunity to review the problem as a legal issue. The situation was becoming so critical that I felt I had to do something...
About half the 43 homeowners on Coon's foreclosure list were unemployed. Many were Pittsburgh-area steelworkers who are unable to meet monthly payments on their $30,000 to $40,000 homes. Their arrears range from $5,000 to $8,000. The group represents just a small fraction of the area's estimated 50,000 jobless steelworkers, more of whom may soon be facing the same problem. Said Andrew Palm, director of District 15 of the United Steelworkers of America, about Coon and Papadakos: "It's tremendous what they did. We're elated...
Others were not so happy. Coon's office was besieged with complaints from angry lawyers and lien holders. "They said some very nasty things about me," the sheriff said, "but I expected it." However, some bankers and lawyers, perhaps aware of how popular Coon had suddenly become, were only mildly critical. Pittsburgh Attorney Bernard Markovitz, who handles foreclosures, said, "If Coon's intent is only to help them straighten out payment plans, I'm willing to let this slide." But he added, "Somebody has to pay. Nothing's for free these days. Other people have rights...