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ictims of dioxin testify
United Press International
Washington — Resi-
t f ffits of dioxin-contaminated
ic river efliB 65 ® eac ^’ ^° > h ave not
. e een fairly compensated for
hysical, mental and financial
I jV^ 1 | toblems stemming from their
er durii T’ 5 “agonizing death,” Mayor
r 6 wplyn Leistner said
*• P.“ nr “(edne S day.
1 lr 1 ' The state and federal
fent helped with a $3
on buyout of Times Beach, but
there's no way that amount of
toney can reimburse the peo-
1? for loss of their health,”
tistner told a House Public
and Transportation
subcommittee
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to summarize the
rested 17S gonizing death of our city is dif-
r premises cult,” she said, reading from a
8-page statement. “This ex-
* did nothenence has been an emotional
workers killer coaster ride for 2,000
ough whateople.”
rd "pipelin Leistner, a couple who for-
i say is thfirly lived in Imperial, Mo., a
large nurcitouisiana man and a New York
ave paidtooman all testified about the
n,” he said roblems of victims.
; said the Wi-The mayor complained of the
eople to bn|
rkers nonli
; cost fra
lack of “people-oriented” com
pensation for the environmental
disaster that drove people from
her city.
She outlined the seizures,
emotional problems, allergies,
skin diseases, and tumors that
have affected Times Beach resi
dents, including some members
of her own family.
One of her daughters has
been diagnosed as having a pre-
cancerous cervix, and other
young women — some in their
teens — have developed breast
cancer, Leistner said.
“While the human temptation
exists to blame anything and ev
erything on dioxin, I have re
lated only problems that have
defied diagnosis as to their
cause,” she said.
Dioxin, a by-product of the
manufacture of herbicides, is a
potent cause of cancer in anim
als and causes skin rashes in hu
mans. Researchers are studying
a possible link between dioxin
and a rare soft-tissue cancer in
humans.
Dioxin was contained in waste
oil spread in several areas of
Missouri, including Times
Beach, as a dust control measure
in the early 1970s.
The EPA announced last Feb
ruary it was tapping the govern
ment’s $1.6 billion Superfund, a
special tax on chemical com
panies producing hazardous
wastes, to buy out the estimated
800 residences and 12 busines
ses in Times Beach.
Leistner said that compensa
tion to some merchants for their
business losses has been inade
quate.
“Businesses were told that
(Small Business Administration)
loans were available,” she said.
“Almost all applied, and almost
all were refused. There was no
‘ready’ money for the business
people, and they have suffered
accordingly.”
She offered a series of recom
mendations for handling similar
problems in the future, includ
ing establishment of a tax on
chemicals to provide the neces
sary health care for people suf
fering from exposure to dioxin.
She also called for adequate
and prompt compensation for
business people and for person
al property, along with lifetime
follow-ups on the health of peo
ple exposed to the chemicals.
Shirley and Ronald Payne of
Pacific, Mo., who for 6Va years
lived in Imperial, Mo., across the
street from a dioxin-
contaminated site, detailed the
medical problems that they,
their four children and former
neighbors have suffered.
“I believe our family health
problems have been a direct re
sult of our exposure to dioxin,”
she said, adding that state health
officials agree.
Although the Paynes sold
their home in 1981 before the
Environmental Protection
Agency this year began contem
plating buying out homes in the
area, Payne said her family has
sustained $25,000 in medical ex
penses not covered by health in
surance.
“I am concerned about the
other people who still live near
and around the Minker site,”
she said. “The contaminated
dirt is still there; there are no
fences and nor warning signs.
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Ijroiile run on horse tortures
situation!
United Press International
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jiCLU says more
risons won’t help
lUgust the DALLAS — Police sought a
d up anaksychological profile on the kil-
orked onaC'f S0 f seven horses, brutally tor-
f Dallas.Itjred by internal injury, and
e becausel-tre told they are sadists with
for transpi'elow-average intelligence and
Idn’tlethitossibly bedwetters or arsonists.
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United Press International
, SAVANNAH, Ga. — Build-
C1H PP more P r i sons is not th e
ijltluswer to the overcrowding
foblem, an American Civil
^,a_ TT [berties Union attorney told
[V jirticipants at the Southern
/ Igisladve conference T uesday.
i Steve Ney, chief staff counsel
• itr the ACLU’s National Prison
istration, AL- , • „ j » *
i ptoject, pointed out that over-
dor 311 ow d‘ n S * s a result of a doubled
T°reports I# n P°P ulation over the P ast
admmistralij near jy 0 f
) an ex e )0,000 people in state prisons
ZS 1 bo thecount f r H y TU! , r
'.,0,000 — are in the 15 states
a P rere q [t compose the Southern
oF sc,ent|!t gislative Conference.
. ,, J “More building is not the
LP eC,a 3 y Jier,” he said. “Clearly, the
ions are not rehabilitating
one. They are not deterring
je "
Ney recommended the in-
ed use of probation and
unity service sentencing,
asing the amount of “good
Since all the horses were
mares, police Sgt. W.B. Wilson
said Monday, “I’m even wonder
ing if there’s some kind of
hatred of women.”
Investigators believe the peo
ple are responsible for at least
three incidents since March in
which seven mares died of inter
nal injuries after being sexually
mutilated.
Police believe at least two peo
ple are involved —- one to calm
the animal or inject a drug and
another to inflict the fatal in
juries.
“Cruelty to animals, a fireset-
ter and bedwetters are part of
one syndrome,” said S.A.
Somodevilla, Dallas police
psychologist. In addition, he
said, the people probably have
“a relatively low IQ” and are
knowledgeable about horses.
Investigators and psycholog
ists discount rumors of cult in
volvement. No external mutila
tion occurred and no evidence
of ritual activity was found at the
scenes.
“It’s for kicks,” Somodevilla,
said. “They’re sick. The intent is
to kill the animal. It’s someone
who is getting a kick out of the
cruelty. There’s sadism in
volved.”
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selection ptf
time” sentence reductions
allowed and reclassification of
prisoners as ways to cut back
prison populations.
“We’re trying to obtain
humane conditions,” he said.
“The people in prison should be
punisned but under humane
conditions.”
Paul Lawrence, a Justice De
partment lawyer, agreed with
Ney. “Overcrowding means you
have too many to take care of,”
Lawrence said. “The prison just
isn’t staffed or managed to meet
constitutional standards.
rap
murderers get out of prison.
That’s where they belong,”
Lawrence said. “But if you put
him in there, you’ve got to pro
tect him from a knife in the back,
in the shower, from cutting his
foot on the threshing machine.”
Eleven of the Southern states
represented at the conference
are under court order to allevi
ate prison overcrowding.
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Imposter basketball star
may be ex-NFL Star
United Press International
NATCHITOCHES, La. —
Detectives have tentatively iden
tified a man accused of posing as
basketball legend Bill Russell in
a bizarre investment scam as for
mer NFL star Marv Fleming.
The new twist in the case was
announced Tuesday by city
police, who said efforts were
continuing to identify the sus
pect through officials of the
football league.
“He did advise me that he was
Marv Fleming the football play
er,” said police detective Larry
Vaughn. “But we still have no
solid proof.”
Vaughn said the man admit
ted under questioning he was in
deed Fleming and had once
played for the Green Bay Pack
ers and the Miami Dolphins. He
said the man looked like a photo
of the former NFL player and
was wearing some jewelry shown
in the picture.
“The time we showed him this
picture was the time he told us
he really was Marv Fleming,”
Vaughn said.
Fleming was the starting tight
end for the Miami Super Bowl
teams of 1971, 1972 and 1973
after coming to the Dolphins in a
trade with the Packers.
Sheriffs deputies said the 6-
foot-4 suspect went so far with
his Bill Russell charade as to tell
his would-be victim a voluntary
operation had cut him down
from his once-imposing height.
“She thought the basketball
player was much taller,” said
spokesman Russell Roge. “He
told her he had an operation in
which they removed 10 inches of
bone out of his legs so he could
fit in his Mercedes Benz.”
Detectives said the man ex
plained his lack of resemblance
to the former NBA player and
coach by saying he had had an
accident recently and was forced
to undergo plastic surgery.
The suspect identified him
self as Russell but was carrying a
driver’s license and personal
checks imprinted with the name
of Fleming. He used these false
identities in an attempt to trick
the woman out of $2,500, Roge
said.
According to the charges filed
against him, the suspect phoned
the woman as Russell and
sought her investment in a re
staurant. He told her to make
the check out to Fleming, whom
he identified as his accountant.
However, the woman became
suspicious when her son, who
played basketball, expressed
doubts Russell would be in
volved in such a business deal.
She invited the man to come
over and discuss the offer in de
tail — as officers listened in
another room.
“She handed him the check,
he got up and started out the
front door,” Vaughn said.
“That’s where we apprehended
him.”
The suspect was charged with
attempted felony theft.
In the vehicle’s trunk, officers
said they found “a bunch of
newspaper clippings about
Marv Fleming Day,” held in
Texas when the player retired
about nine years ago.
A female companion identi
fied as Bobbie Jane Bryant, 42,
of Pueblo, Colo., was booked as
an accomplice in the case. The
woman “verified” the suspect
was Bill Russell at the woman’s
house.
Hearing could lead to new
trial for convicted murderer
United Press International
AUSTIN — The Texas Court
of Criminal Appeals Wednesday
ordered a mental competency
hearing that could lead to a new
trial for death row inmate
Samuel C. Hawkins, who was
twice sentenced to die for the
rapes and slayings of a pregnant
Borger woman and an Amarillo
girl, 12.
The state’s highest criminal
appeal court ruled a trial judge
erred in refusing to let a jury
decide whether Hawkins was
competent to stand trial for the
1977 rape and stabbing death of
Abbe Hamilton, 19, who was six
months pregnant.
The court said a Lubbock
County jury should consider
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within the next 90 days whether
Hawkins was competent at the
time of his trial for Hamilton’s
death.
Hawkins, 39, was scheduled
to be die in March 1982 for the
kidnapping, rape and
bludgeoning death of Rhonda
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The Court of Criminal
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unable to make the retrospective
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