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...being unfairly targeted by the activists, pointing out that it draws less than 15 percent of its fiber from the Canadian Boreal forest. “The small percentage of Boreal fiber we use is harvested responsibly and is promptly reforested,” company spokesman David J. Dickson wrote in an e-mail. He also said that lumber companies are to blame for deforestation in Canada, writing that “[a]ccording to the Canadian Forest Service, 83 percent of all trees harvested in Canada in 2000 were used to produce lumber to build homes...
...policemen who are supposed to put dopers behind bars are not often like TV's cool, sockless heroes with stern moral codes. Christmas week brought more grim tidings of internal vice in the Miami police department. First, the city's tough-talking, Stetson-wearing police chief, Clarence Dickson, announced that two former officers had been charged with stealing 150 lbs. of cocaine. Less than 24 hours later, four additional Miami policemen were arrested in connection with an ugly coke deal that led to three deaths last summer...
...roundup brought to eleven the number of Miami cops arrested on drug-related charges in 1985. As investigations continued to uncover corrupt cops in the Miami area, Chief Dickson, 51, took a no-nonsense approach toward his embattled department. "We will wipe out corruption wherever it exists," said Dickson, who has been in his job for only a year. "We will always take the pro-active approach because we are Miami...
...extraordinary profession of innocence. Wearing his customary cowboy hat, Miami Police Chief Clarence Dickson led 30 top officers to Cedars Medical Center for drug-screening tests, which they passed. On the same day, 500 of the department's 1,020 rank-and-file policemen also submitted urine samples for testing, with results due next week. Said spokesman Jack Sullivan: "The guys were just tired of all the bad publicity." Drug-financed corruption in South Florida has provided the real-life inspiration for more than a few scripts on NBC's Miami Vice, but recent events have particularly tarnished the police...
...BASEBALL Chris Begg, Uxbridge, Ont. Todd Betts, Scarborough, Ont. Stubby Clapp, Windsor, Ont. Eric Cyr, Montreal Jason Dickson, London, Ont. Rob Ducey, Toronto Jeff Francis, Vancouver Jeff Guiel, North Vancouver Mike Johnson, Edmonton Danny Klassen, Leamington...