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...speed away to remote areas, where huge trailers are waiting with their lights off. After ten or 15 prime steers are led up a loading ramp into the trailer, the van roars off. Rustlers have no trouble selling the steers for up to $300 a head at regularly scheduled livestock auctions, some in Georgia and Alabama. Many ranchers contend that a portion of the stolen beef winds up in Florida's resort motels and Mafia-controlled restaurants...
Paul David Meadlo recalled the briefing his company received from Captain Medina the afternoon before the assault. Medina told the men, Meadlo testified, that all the My Lai villagers were "Viet Cong or Viet Cong sympathizers, and we were supposed to kill everything there -women, children, livestock." Three defense witnesses corroborated that...
Rather than tie up their own money in livestock, the partners simply fatten and market cattle for high-income city investors in search of a tax shelter. Western takes a 10% sales commission and a quarter of each investor's profit. Since May, the four partners have grossed $1.25 million, and avow that they have had much more fun with cows and steers than with bulls and bears. "Brokers are all being replaced by computers," says Partner Paul Ronan. "They'll end up being just clerks. Here we are pioneers...
...delight of the Taosenos, the Senate voted 70 to 12 to give 48,000 acres back to the tribe. Held in trust by the Secretary of the Interior, the land will be preserved as wilderness and used by the Indians mainly for religious ceremonies, hunting and maintaining livestock...
...major topics of the conference will be the harmful effect which modern agricultural methods have on soil and livestock...