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Consumers swallowed the juice concoction, and its manufacturers reaped sweet profits. But last week a federal grand jury indicted three former top officials of a Chicago-based juice company, Bodine's Inc., for allegedly selling 7 million cases of adulterated frozen orange juice between 1983 and 1985. While the company labeled the juice "100% pure," the Food and Drug Administration says the product contained corn sugar, beet sugar, monosodium glutamate and effluent from a water-distillation process. The company allegedly used the ingredients because they were cheaper than the real thing and enabled Bodine's to offer lower prices...
...share power? Solidarity leader Lech Walesa could see no good reason last week as he turned down an invitation from President Wojciech Jaruzelski to join a grand coalition government with the Communist Party. After a two-hour closed meeting with Jaruzelski at the President's residence in Warsaw's Belvedere Palace, Walesa declared, "I must say I don't envy the President. He has an awful lot of problems...
...crystal-clear morning in June, George Bush stood before the Grand Tetons in Wyoming and proclaimed, "Every American deserves to breathe clean air." Last week, after environmentalists and their allies on Capitol Hill got a look at the President's 279-page plan for implementing his promise to clean up America's spacious but smoggy skies, they claimed he had double-crossed them. Bush, they said, had retreated substantially from his Rocky Mountain rhetoric and in some areas even fell short of current...
...been smothered and her body frozen; a hair sample was discovered in a deep freezer in the house of Paula's parents, where she and husband Robert had been staying. Paula was indicted on charges of concealing a homicide and obstructing justice in both cases. Last week a grand jury added charges of murdering Heather. No action was taken against Robert, but police consider him a suspect. Seventeen-month-old Randy Sims did not share the terrible fate of his sisters; he was perfectly healthy when taken into protective custody...
Evidence is being presented to a grand jury that will decide whether indictments are warranted. But Spence's days of trading on his guest list have ended, and he has gone underground. Those who once dined at his table are wondering out loud about the curious 8-ft.-long two-way mirror in his house, and the young men, and what exactly Craig Spence did to earn all the money he was throwing around. They wonder only now that the party is over...