Word: florida
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...Florida panther has inhabited the federal endangered species list since 1967, but James Billie, chief of the Seminole Indian tribe, argues that he was not always aware of the tawny cat's protected status. In 1983 Billie killed and ate a panther on the Seminole reservation in the Everglades. Though the state charged Billie with destroying an endangered animal, the case languished & in local courts. After lengthy debate, the Justice Department has charged Billie with violating the 1973 Endangered Species Act. Although Native Americans have been convicted of trading in eagles, no court has ever decided whether Indians, whose hunting...
Billie's attorney, Bruce Rogow, says the real threat to the panther has been the overdevelopment of South Florida by whites; since 1978 five Florida panthers have been killed by motorists, and others have been shot by white hunters. Naturalists estimate that only a few dozen panthers exist in the Everglades today...
Federal District Judge Barrington Parker, startled by the disclosures, demanded to be shown Hinckley's correspondence. Justice Department attorneys, who opposed the visitation request, ordered Bundy's Florida cell searched for other Hinckley letters. After the testimony, hospital officials decided that maybe the one-day leave wasn't such a good idea after all and withdrew the proposal...
...time they realize the mistake they're too drunk to leave, having already bought three six dollar Hurricanes with the accompanying souvenir glass. Perhaps this happened to the sailors, who sat at a table near the stage surrounded on three sides by a senior citizens tour group from Florida. They kept looking at each other, then at their drinks, then back at each other, while a pedestrian Dixieland group on the bandstand honked its way through the St. James Infirmary blues. Finally they got up and left, each carrying three souvenir glasses in individual plastic bags...
...Vernon, Florida--Brattle Theatre...