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Violent hatemongering can be an expensive hobby. That's the message of a $12.5 million verdict handed down in Portland, Ore., last week against television repairman Tom Metzger, his son John, their national racist organization White Aryan Resistance, and two of the three partying skinhead punks who, incited by WAR, arbitrarily bludgeoned a 27-year-old Ethiopian man to death two years...
...Metzgers. A member of WAR's Portland affiliate, East Side White Pride, was convicted last year of murder in the 1988 beating death of Mulugeta Seraw, a 27-year-old Ethiopian man; two other members were convicted of first-degree manslaughter in the case. Metzger, a television repairman, and his son run WAR from their family's home in Fallbrook, Calif., north of San Diego. The organization's cable-television show, Race and Reason, is carried on 50 cable-access channels, and WAR operates 23 telephone hot lines. Its newspaper, WAR, runs articles and cartoons ridiculing Jews and nonwhites...
...when you slipped your hand into a rubber glove to scour the kitchen sink, or in the wedges of pears sliced onto a plate for a baby's lunch." It hits Nora's neighbor Donna Durgin one day when she is "wounded by the kindness" of the Sears repairman, who doesn't charge her for fixing the washer because he can tell she really cares about things. "You wouldn't believe some of the laundry rooms I've seen," he says. Her husband has not said anything as kind for years; after she carefully lays out dinner and the next...
Consumers in some areas are complaining about rising rates, shoddy service and long afternoons of waiting for the cable repairman to show up. Broadcasters are arguing that cable enjoys an unfair advantage in the marketplace. Most worrisome of all to the industry, Washington is paying heed. Legislation is pending in both houses of Congress that would impose new restrictions on cable. And the Federal Communications Commission, for years a deregulatory friend, is making noises about reining in the industry...
...urgency about preserving the planet are the stories of people like Lynda Draper, 40, whose fight against ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbon emissions began in the kitchen of her Ellicott City, Md., home early last year. "I was basically a PTA volunteer," says Draper, until the day a General Electric repairman came to install a new compressor in her refrigerator. He asked her to open the window, and then she heard the whooshing sound of CFCs venting into the atmosphere. Draper raised such a fuss with the Environmental Protection Agency, the newspapers and local and state officials that GE agreed to offset...