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...Tennessee company clucked loudly at Tyson's advances and turned to another chicken producer interested in acquiring some of Holly Farms' juicy parts. Omaha-based ConAgra, the No. 2 grower, agreed on a so-called lockup arrangement in which the Nebraska firm can buy some of Holly Farms' operations if the marauding Tyson succeeds in taking over. ConAgra, which already controls 20% of the U.S. beef industry, 33% of the lamb market and nearly 10% of broiler production, would like to bring Holly Farms' Weaver frozen-chicken label into the same shed with its Armour, Banquet and Country Pride brands...
...Vegas basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian in his twelve-year fight for due process as opposed to arbitrary suspensions. It may be an accident of timing, but almost from the moment of the decision, the NCAA has seemed to flex its muscles with increased vigor -- and the college-sports lockup has swelled. Brooklyn College, Illinois, Marist College, Minnesota, Texas A & M, Arizona State, Cleveland State, Cincinnati, Houston, West Texas State, Kansas and Oklahoma represent the year's catch in the NCAA's crusade, according to its charter, to "retain a clear line of demarcation between college athletics and professional sports...
...prisoners call it Ansar 3, after the lockup in Lebanon where Israel held Palestinian guerrillas captured during the 1982 invasion. Like the original, Ansar 3, deep in the Negev Desert, is something of a prisoner-of-war camp, this time for veterans of the intifadeh (uprising), the sticks-and-stones insurrection against Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, a rebellion that began last December and still sputters on. Most of the 2,483 men and boys detained at the Negev camp are in effect political prisoners, held without charge, trial or sentence. They make up half...
...defendant to figure in some bail decisions. On the federal level, there has been about a 36% increase in pretrial detainees since the act was passed, from a daily average of 5,383 in 1984 to 7,328 last year, or about one-seventh of those in federal lockup. "It puts a burden on us to find jail space," says Georgia U.S. Marshal Lynn Duncan...
...Triumph TR 7 on the morning of June 2 when he was stopped for speeding in Signal Hill (pop. 5,600), a city surrounded by Long Beach. According to Officer Jerry Lee Brown, Settles refused to cooperate. Two other policemen helped bring him to the Signal Hill lockup, where he was booked for resisting arrest, assaulting a police officer and possession of cocaine Two hours later, Settles was found dead in his cell, hanging by a mattress cover...