Word: florida
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Security is at the heart of another charge. Noting that the Department of Energy plans to help build demonstration food-irradiation plants in Oklahoma, Iowa, Hawaii, Florida, California and Washington, opponents complain that the resulting spread of radioactive material will increase the chances of mishaps during transport, use and disposal. Nor has the supervision of existing irradiation plants been reassuring. The NRC acknowledges that it may inspect a facility only once in three years. Radiation Technology's license to operate a New Jersey plant was recently suspended for two months after the NRC found that company officials tried to hide...
...elude police who came to her house to retrieve the baby, Whitehead passed the infant out a back window to her husband Richard, who spirited the child to Florida. After a three-month search by police, the FBI and private detectives, the Whiteheads were located, and the baby was returned to the Sterns. Baby M. will stay with them at least until Judge Sorkow resolves the dispute...
...Helena Sukova, 21, and Miloslav Mecir, 22, flew home to Czechoslovakia and hero's welcomes, while the victorious Czechomericans Ivan Lendl, 26, and Martina Navratilova, 29, collected their $210,000 prizes and stayed on in their adopted country. Although he is still a Czech citizen, Lendl has places in Florida, New York and Connecticut, and has not been back to his native land since 1984. "What Mecir has against him is he does not like playing in America," said Lendl of his opponent. "He wants to go home, he wants to go fishing." Navratilova came to the U.S. to stay...
...Miami, they have begun confiscating the cars of well-off suburbanites who drive into the cities and get arrested while buying crack. The haul in New York since late July: 107 cars, including several BMWs and at least one Mercedes-Benz. And everywhere arrest totals are rising. Police in Florida nabbed 4,573 suspected cocaine sellers last year, more than double the number...
...volume of narcotics traffic is immense, estimated at anywhere from $27 billion to $110 billion a year. In a study released this year of the link between drugs and street crime in New York and Washington, 56% of suspects tested were using drugs at the time of arrest. In Florida, the burglary rate is up 30% so far this year; cocaine arrests...