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...victims could only pray that the violence in the heartland, and the despair that has incited it, would subside. In Iowa City, 1,500 mourners jammed a memorial service for Hughes, where the Rev. Henry Greiner called on elected officials to "heed the cries of those who till the soil and feed the nation." In Lone Tree, Dale and Emily Burr were buried side by side in a cemetery just a mile from their farm. The day ^ before, Richard Goody's widow turned down the offer of a military funeral for her husband even though, as a Viet Nam veteran...
...government extradite the sole surviving hijacker, a 22-year-old Palestinian who gave his name as Omar Mohammed Ali Rezaq, to Egypt. For Bonnici, going along with the Egyptians threatened Malta's close ties to Libya. He refused, arguing that the crimes involved had taken place on Maltese soil and that Egypt does not have an extradition treaty with Malta...
AFTER YEARS OF citizen complaints and warnings from the state, Hooker settled out of court in what a state official called one of the "ten most important environmental settlements of recent times." The company agreed to take all chemicals and contaminated soil on the site and contain in a gigantic clay vault larger than 13 football fields and to clean the groundwater through massive pumping and filtering...
...Hooker clean-up was "state-of-the-art," but soon after the vault was sealed more contaminated soil was found and studies discovered that the extensive purge-well system was recovering only half of the polluted groundwater. Hooker was unwilling to spend more on clean-up and the state has been unwilling to sue a second time. And even had the system worked perfectly, could it have permanently contained its load of poisons? Said one community activist, "To the best of my knowledge, there is not one single example of such a vault in the world today which...
...priority as the place where the four hijackers had re-entered Italy, was left with two legal cases. One was brought by Carlo Longo, an angry local newsman who lodged a formal charge of "piracy" against President Reagan for the way the U.S. tried to seize Abbas on Italian soil. Said Longo: "Maybe they won't arrest Reagan, but Sicily isn't just an American colony. It's a matter of principle...