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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
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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.
Many of the submarines are tied to
piers in Russia’s north and are in disre
pair. Some are slowly leaking fluids in
to the surrounding water, causing envi
ronmental concerns.
Their safe dismantling has become a
contentious issue as neighboring coun
tries are offering aid money, but the Russ
ian military is reluctant to provide for
eigners access to its top-secret submarine
bases in the Arctic.
Welders usually cut the vessels into
circular slices but leave the reactor core
intact and still floating in the water, tied
to a pier.
Lebedev said that the current tech
niques for cutting up the submarines “do
not permit rapid disposal,” and that re
searchers were working on a new con
cept for disposing of the boats.
Lebedev said his ministry might or
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