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Nation & World _ , Stapp Reports Associated Press Graham, N.C. —The future of the state’s last live pigeon shoot, and per haps a new animal cruelty law, will be determined by a Superior Court judge hearing a Granville County case. Lawyers for John Malloy, who has pul on the Dogwood Invitational shoot since 1957, argued in a tearing before Judge .femes Spencer that the few is too broad and vague and keeps Malloy from earning a living on his land. The law, whichtook effect test De cember and was revised this summer, essentially makes it a misdemeanor to kill any vertebrate animal not regulat ed by the N.C. Wildlife Commission. . Tte commission has said that includes pigeons. But an assistant attorney general representing tte state in the case has asked Spencer to dismiss Malloy’s law suit and issue a judgment on the law. “Everyone lias a constitutional right to make afiving, but that doesn’t mean you have a constitutional right to do anything you want to make that living,” assistant AG John Aldridge said. “And that includes making moonshine, run ning brothels and slaughtering pigeons.” Spencer said he will make a ruling this week. During the pigeon shoot, about 290 peopte from ail over the world pay $200 to $300 each to shoot between 23,000 and 40,000 pigeons with shotguns dur ing a four-day tournament at Malloy’s farm near Oxford. Prizes are given to those who kill the most birds. The tournament is by invitation on ly and is closed to tte public, but ani mal rights activists for years have said wounded birds flop around in fields or nearby woods until they die of starva tion or infection . Malloy wasn’t in court Monday. He couldn ’t be reached for comment. Tom Burnette, one of Malloy’s at torneys, said the kw is a violation of property rights with standards too broad to enforce. “Under the law, a housewife could n't trap and kill a mouse in her house," he said “If two law enforcement offi cers came to that house and saw the mouse one would anest the woman and the other would help her get rid of the mouse, remains,” Aldridge said that killing the mouse would be an unquestionable protection of property. Granville County District Attorney David ’Vvhters and Sheriff David Smith have said that if the judge finds Mal loy's pigeon shoot illegal, he and oth er sht^rs wifi he charged with animal cruelty. Malloy has held two competitions this year, in March and last week. Spencer has granted a temporary in junction, keeping Smith and Waters from prosecuting him while lawyers made motions. Although Spencer first beard the case in a Granville County court and has since rotated into Akmance Coun ty, the case has remained under his rule. Dietrich von Haugwitz, education director of the N.C. Network For An imals Inc., was one of the handful of an imal rights activists at Monday’s hear ing. “If we have to appeal, I’m confi dent that a different judge would rule in our fevoC said von Haugwitz after the hearing. f Jury selected in E. coli case by Scott Bauer Associated Press Lincoln, Neb. — Officials with Hud son Foods lied to the U.S. government for more than a week before the largest meat recall in U.S. history was ordered, a prosecutor told a federal jury today. Hudson initially ordered a limited recall of ground beef in 1997, even though company workers knew more ground beef was potentially contami nated with the E. coli bacteria, assistant U.S. attorney Jan Sharp said. A recall of 25 million pounds of ground beef didn’t begin until the government discovered on its own that there was more potentially contami nated meat, Sharp said in opening state ments. The government claims that Hud son and two company workers lied and conspired to lie to the government about the scope of the problem. In defense opening statements, an attorney for Hudson Foods denied there was a conspiracy, and denied that any one lied to the government. Hambuiger produced at Hudson’s Columbus plant was linked to an out break of E. coli contamination in July 1997 in Colorado, leading to a nation wide recall the following month. As a result of the recall, the plant was closed and later sold to IBP Inc. A grand jury in December indict ed Hudson, which has since been sold to Tyson Foods; plant manager Brent Wolke; and Michael Gregory, Hudson’s E. COU SEE PAGE 9 Apache attack helicopters to be grounded for 10 months by Robert Burns Associated Press Washington — More than half the Army’s 743 Apache attack heli copters will be grounded for several months to replace tail rotor bearings blamed in a crash early this year, the Pentagon said Tuesday. When the Army disclosed Friday that it would inspect the full fleet of Apaches to determine which carried the defective bearing assemblies, it didn’t mention how long the grounded copters would be out of action. It said it antic ipated “no problems with readiness” in the fleet. Asked for additional details Tues day, Pentagon spokesman P. J. Crow ley said that nearly all 743 Apaches had been inspected and that about 400 will require bearing replacements. He said it will take eight to 10 months to get all the aircraft back in operation. And be cause there are too few spare bearings in Army stocks to complete the work, the manufacturer will have to restart production. Crowley said it could take as long as three months for first deliveries of the new production bearings. “We will have substantial num bers of these helicopters that will not fly for the next three months or so as they accelerate the production of these replacement bearing assemblies,” Crow ley said. The Apache, made by Boeing Co., is the Army’s best attack helicopter. Crowley said the Apaches operat ing in Bosnia, Kosovo, the Persian Gulf and South Korea will be given priority in the repair work “so that we don’t ex pect any major impact on the key op erations that the Army is currently in volved in.” The groundings will slow the pace of training at domestic Army bases, A ^ Crowley said. The replacement work is expected to cost about $13.5 million, the spokesman said. The decision to inspect the full fleet was made when the Army recently de termined that the bearing was the cause of an Apache crash in January at Fort Rucker, Ala., in which the helicopter was destroyed and the two-man crew suffered minor injuries. * ‘We don’t expect any major impact on the key operations that the Army is currently involved in.’ P. J. Crowley, Pentagon Spokesman Russia to dismantle 18 nuclear submarines Staff Reports Associated Press MOSCOW — Russia will dismantle 18 nuclear submarines next year and is work ing on new technologies to speed up the process, the Interfax news agency re ported Tuesday. Russia must scrap 107 nuclear sub marines left over from the Cold War, ac cording to Valery Lebedev, deputy min ister of atomic energy. The United States has pledged mil lions of dollars to help Russia in the task, and U.S. officials are following the dis mantling work closely. The submarines were built to carry nuclear missiles tar geted at the United States. 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