Word: florida
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...Slayton's venture has run into a glitch. The State of Florida has issued a cease-and-desist order to the Celestis Group, a Melbourne-based company set up by an undertaker, embalmer and engineer to deliver the remains to Slayton's firm. The state's charge: Celestis is operating an unlicensed cemetery. According to Florida law, a cemetery must include at least 15 acres of land and a road that leads to a highway...
Celestis plans to contest the charge before a state arbiter next month, arguing that Slayton's space mausoleum is not a cemetery but a transportation system. If the arbiter rules against Celestis, the company may sue Florida or move to Virginia, where the Space Services launching pad will be located. Slayton still hopes to begin his space burials in January...
...number of Congressmen, the term drug war is not to be taken lightly. As the House argued over its bill on drug abuse two weeks ago, several lawmakers employed the rhetoric of war in discussing the nation's fight against narcotics. Republican E. Clay Shaw of Florida called drugs "the biggest threat that we have ever had to our national security." South Carolina Republican Thomas Hartnett declared them "a threat worse than any nuclear warfare or any chemical warfare waged on any battlefield...
...dealt with in some other way. Up to this year, the House has impeached only 13 men, not including Richard Nixon, who resigned in 1974 before his impeachment was acted on by the full House. Not since 1936, when the Senate tried and removed U.S. Judge Halsted Ritter of Florida for bringing his court into "scandal and disrepute," has a public official gone through the entire process...
...Dole hopes to expedite the case, a staffer believes the Senate could "be here at Christmas" if all Claiborne's requests are granted. Even so, it may not be another 50 years before the Senate goes through the ordeal again. At least two other federal judges, Alcee Hastings of Florida and Walter Nixon of Mississippi, could follow Claiborne into the impeachment labyrinth...