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...three Administrations have been strangely deaf to the industry's plaints. Investigations into the charges have been halted, and dumping duties that should have been collected have not been. Now, at the prodding of Congress, the Carter Administration's attitude is changing. Meanwhile, evidence is emerging of lax enforcement of the trade rules and possible malfeasance by past and present Administration officials...
...strapped into an aisle seat on he 7 a.m. flight from LAX to ORD, and the baby next to you is screaming, and the turbulence is causing your stomach to bathe your just consumed sausage links and hash browns in acid, and you don't know how you're going to get through the next 4% hrs. because it's too early for a martini, and besides, you want to throw up. So you reach for that little paper bag in the seat-back pocket, and, hello! What's this? A slick, thick, technicolor magazine throbbing...
...visible signs of organized crime, have done so without seriously threatening the pervasive corruption and underlying institutions that led to Bolles' murder. Although small reforms have occurred, organized crime still flourishes in Arizona, and more than two years after a reporter's death it is still protected by notoriously lax laws and the open friendship of many of the state's most influential leaders...
...what finally emerged was a watered-down version of a more stringent anti-crime bill, one that contained the very same discriminatory provisions that have for years made Arizona's penal system one of the most backward in the nation--stiff, mandatory sentences for blue-collar crime and lax provisions for organized, white-collar crime. The legislature also established a special task force to investigate organized crime, but the panel was given no force of law or full power to subpoena witnesses, and it quickly degenerated to exploring subjects like child pornography rather than narcotics traffic or more important subjects...
...rule has been around a long time, but we got lax about enforcing it" Thomas McLaughlin, a worker at the B & G Control Center where the water is heated, said yesterday...