Word: lawmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...elder Kahl, who had contended that the U.S. Government is "the American synagogue of Satan," jumped into an unmarked Medina police car at the shooting site and fled. Much of the government he hated was soon hunting him, employing some 100 lawmen, dozens of cars, police dogs, even an incongruously formidable armored personnel carrier. By week's end five suspects, including Kahl's wounded son, were under arrest. But Kahl was still eluding the massive man hunt...
...counter of the Anchor Bar, a shadowy grease pit midway between the offices of the Detroit News and the rival Free Press, where journalists mingle in the legendary camaraderie of the trade, a Free Press employee looks up at rows of photographs of Motor City reporters, lawmen and politicians and says, "I think you have to be dead to be up there." That is certainly true of one picture; it shows a building that once housed the Detroit Times, a Hearst daily that shut down in 1960 and threw the city's two surviving papers into a decades-long...
Battling the dope runners are the combined forces of the U.S. Customs Service the Coast Guard and the Drug Enforcement Administration, as well as local lawmen. But they all are fighting a losing battle. Last year law enforcement officials seized 3.2 million Ibs. of marijuana, with a street value of $ 1.3 billion, and 2,353 Ibs. of cocaine worth $5.8 billion, in and around South Florida. So much dope was seized that the police began trucking it to the Florida Power and Light Co. to burn in its generators (732 Ibs. of marijuana equal...
...more agents, who arrived and confirmed his identity by the mole on his left cheek. Lester, dressed in shorts and sweatshirt after a 14-mile run, looked up to find three agents crouching with their pistols leveled at him. When he got out of the car, one of the lawmen barked an order: "Drop that hamburger!" Lester smirked, but his levity quickly vanished: "Who are you guys...
Even in Arizona, which has the nation's toughest plant-protection law and pistol-packing lawmen to back it up, cactus rustlers make away with an estimated $500,000 to $1 million worth of plants each year. Among them: the giant saguaro (pronounced sah-vrar-o), Arizona's state flower, which grows to 50 ft. or more. The fruit of the saguaro is an important food source for practically all desert birds and is used as well by humans to make preserves and, yes, cactus wine...