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Florida Cons Con Bureaucracy
Six inmates at the Florida state prison, all of them serving life terms, have been charged with filing phony Federal income tax returns and collecting refunds.
A spokesperson for the U.S. attorney's office says one prisoner even listed his occupation on the tax form as a "bag man."
The six men--and two others to be arraigned later--are charged with writing up fictitious income tax reports and then pocketing the government refunds.
Some of the men, prison authorities report, have been successfully collecting yearly refunds for the past three years. Prison authorities report the six are serving life terms after being convicted of rape, murder or robbery.
Meanwhile, the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles wants to take the age-old job of manufacturing license plates away from the state's convicts.
According to Highway Safety Director Ralph Davis, the problem is that the convicts don't go along with the system like they used to: instead, says Davis, the inmates have been scrawling obscenities directed at motorists across thousands of plates.
Davis reports that more than 37,000 tags have been returned this year. He says the obscenities are causing "Problems and confrontations that are not needed in offices already crowded with impatient people".
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icals known to humans-and remains deadly for more than 100,000 years.
The researcher say the readiness of plants to absorb the radioactive substance means that food crops eaten by humans can be easily contaminated.
By the turn of this century, the United States will be producing hundreds of tons of plutonium at dozens of locations of locations throughout the nation. Scientists believe minor accidents and spills are inevitable.
Wildung and Garland say food crops more likely affected by Plutonium contamination are root crops such as carrots, potatoes and onions.
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L.A. Radio Station Searched By Police
Los Angeles radio station KPFK has charged that an eight-hour-long police search of the station's confidential news sources.
Armed with search warrants, police searched virtually every drawer and file at KPFK October 11, allegedly in an attempt to find a tape recording sent by a group calling itself the "New World Liberation Front." The taped communique took credit for bombings of ITT holdings in San Francisco and Los Angeles earlier this month.
According to station news director Carol Breshears, police made notes from confidential news files which contained the names and telephone numbers of news stringers and informants.
Police also reviewed copies of the Station's long distance phone bills, noting some of the numbers called.
The Station had offered to supply a copy of the recording communique from alleged underground group, but declined to surrender the original. The eight-hour search failed to uncover the original tape.
The KPFK news department said it feared that police access to news contributors names would discouraged them from reporting sensitive or controversial stories in the future.
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Monopoly Leads to Shortages
A Brookings Institute study says the United States could be self-sufficient in oil by 1980 is the US/Justice Department vigorously prosecutes anti-trust actions against the major oil companies.
The Brookings report, prepared by Rutgers economist Paul Davidson, predicts trust-busting action would not only produce more energy, but also cause energy prices to drop.
The study says one of the major causes of U.S. energy shortages is that a small number of energy conglomerates have cornered market on virtually every source of fuel. Davidson says oil corporations control, not only domestic petroleum supplies, but also coal, natural gas, geo-thermal power, shale oil and even the solar energy fields.
Davidson recommends the government enforce anti-trust laws, limiting energy companies to operating within a single energy field.
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