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O’Conner tells paper
that she’s not a man
Warped
United Press International
NEW YORK — U.S. Supreme
Court Justice Sandra Day
O’Connor took exception
Wednesday to an item on The
New York Times’ editorial page
saying the nation’s highest court
was made up of nine men.
The item at issue was a Sept.
29 “Topics” piece about the
growing use of acronyms to
identify government agencies as
well as laws.
The Times said, “Is no
Washington name exempt from
shorthand? One, maybe. The
Chief Magistrate responsible for
executing the laws is sometimes
called the POTUS. The nine
men who interpret them are
often the SCOTUS. The people
who enact them are still, for bet
ter or worse, Congress.”
O’Connor, in a letter to the
editor published Wednesday in
the Times, wrote:
“According to the informa
tion available to me, and which I
assumed was generally available,
for over two years now SCOTUS
has not consisted of nine men. If
you have any contradictory in
formation, I would be grateful if
you would forward it as I am
sure the POTUS, the SCOTUS
and the undersigned (the
FWOTSC) would be most in
terested in seeing it.”
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DES MOINES — Defense
attorneys rested their case
Wednesday in the trial of AGRI
Industries and five company ex
ecutives charged with conspir
ing to steal $500,000 worth of
government-owned grain.
Prosecutors put a rebuttal
witness, AGRI assistant mana
ger Kent Kroeger, on the stand
Wednesday afternoon. The case
could go to the jury for a verdict
as early as today, said Bill Kut-
mus, a defense attorney.
Kroeger was questioned ab
out his conversations with Jack
Wyard, one of the executives on
trial for allegedly conspiring to
steal 133,000 bushels of govern
ment wheat on May 5-6 to meet a
shipment deadline.
Kroeger said he followed
Wyard’s orders and purchased
60,000 bushels of grain from
Bunge Corp. of Fort Worth on
May 13 — one week after the
Prosecutors contend
Wyard should have
known there was no
common license and
that the grain transfer
was illegal.
shipment deadline. In filling the
order,
AGRI officials were
trying to avoid $6,000 a day
penalties.
Prosecutors contend Wyard
should have known there was no
common license and that the
grain transfer was illegal.
Earlier Wednesday, Wyard,
in charge of AGRI’s wheat and
sorghum merchandising, testi
fied he made an honest mistake
in transferring the wheat from
one AGRI facility to another.
Defense attorneys briefly
questioned Wyard, Des Moines
attorney Wilbur Bump, AGRI
board chairman Howard Elson,
AGRI board chairman Russell
Frascht and a character witness
for Wyard before resting their
case at about 1:50 p.m.
Wyard told the jury in his
own defense Wednesday morn
ing that he thought the Houston
and Forth Worth warehouses
were operating under a com
mon license.
However, under questioning
from prosecutors, -Wyard said
he made the mistake after
ing a conversation ben
some AGRI employees,wb
said they thought there si
be a common license beti
the two facilities. ”
Wyard said, referring
elevator as a satellite of tb
ger operation, "I alwaysai
these (two facilities) as one:
Wyard said that lit!
ordering the wheal transit
and other AGRI executiwi
sidered and then ruledom
eral options on how topi
with the 60,000-busliei
order.
AGRI executives, also
dered shipping the
Houston from AGRI’s Lufl
warehouse, but that would!
been a “major undertakint
said.
Groups want EPA guidelines
before it OKs waste burning
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WASHINGTON — Twenty
environmental groups and
Texas’ attorney general asked
the Environmental Protection
Agency Wednesday to draw up
federal regulations governing
the burning of toxic wastes at sea
before granting permits.
“It is a matter of common
sense that EPA should first set
the standards for evaluating
permits before they decide
whether a permit should be
issued,” said Sue Ann Fruge, a
spokesman for Gulf Coast Coali
tion for Public Health.
In a petition filed with the
EPA, the groups and Texas
Attorney General Jim Mattox
asked that regulations be cre
ated to define allowable emis
sion levels, limit which materials
can be incinerated on ocean
going vessels and create moni
toring standards.
At least two firms, Chemical
Waste Management, Inc., of
Oakbrook, Ill., and At-Sea In
cineration, Inc., a division of the
Tacoma Boatbuilding Co. of
Tacoma, Wash., own or are con
structing special ships on which
to burn toxic wastes, including
PCBs.
The wastes would be burned
far out in the Gulf of Mexico in
initial operations but loading
ports are being considered for
New Jersey and a
Jew Jersey and along the Pacific
coast.
The EPA has scheduled a
public hearing for Nov. 21 in
Brownsville for the firms to re
ceive public input on whether
three permits should be granted
to Chemical Waste Management
for operation of its two ships,
Vulcanus and Vulcanus II.
“We believe that it is totally
irresponsible that the Environ
mental Protection Agei
treating something as sei
the disposal of toxic wastel
purely ad hoc basis," saiw
zabeth Otto, a spoke$mai||T
Greenpeace, one of the™^? 1
filing the petition.' J 'E
“Up until now theyhavtB'" e
even required a risk assessiifi be
or contingency plan incastp 51 ^
spill,” she said.
“We believe the timehasw a .
for us to say that we willnoB rc 1
ger tolerate being poisoijg
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AUSTIN — State Treasurer
Ann Richards said Wednesday
bankrupt Braniff Airways and
the Internal Revenue Service
are among; the 20,000 people
and organizations listed as the
owners of $7 million in un
claimed funds.
Richards is required by law to
attempt to find people who have
abandoned property or
accounts worth $50 or more.
Lists of the owner have been
sent to 35 newspapers for publi
cation Oct. 16 and also to all of
the state’s public libraries.
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they can get their money back if
its’s been turned over to the
Treasury — no matter how
much time has passed,”
Richards said.
Texas unclaimed property
laws require that accounts or
other types of unclaimed prop
erty abandoned for seven® [h
be turned over to the state.|pp ea
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list published this year cowthe re
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several other types of prope
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