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75th Year No. 103 Good Morning! It's Thursday, January 13, 1983 2 Sections 12 Pages 25 Cents Murder suspect claims trickery led to confession By Scott Nishimura Mittsourtan atafl writer UNION, Mo. In a packed courtroom, Dolores Miller denied Wednesday that she killed her husband with an in-sulin overdose and testified that she was tricked into ad-mitting to the crime. Her appearance in her own defense at her capital mur-der trial ended the third day of testimony. The jury will hear final arguments and begin deliberations today. Mrs. Miller is charged with the March 1962 death of her husband, Erroll " Roy" Miller. Miller died while re-covering from brain surgery at Truman Veteran Hospi-tal in Columbia. Columbia Police Detective Randy McMillen, who took Miller's statement March 11, also testified Wednesday. He said Mrs. Miller told him she killed her husband as an act of mercy she told him that prior to the operation Miller indicated he was afraid he " would be a vegeta-ble." Boone County Prosecutor Joe Moseley stressed throughout his examination of prosecution witnesses that a bag full of syringes had been found in Mrs. Miller's car following her arrest. When Mrs. Miller took the stand, defense attorney Pat-rick Eng asked her to point out statements in her March 11 confession that she considered untrue. Among the points she said were false were the claims that she in-jected insulin into her husband's I. V. bag using an insulin bottle and a syringe she had taken from a nurses station at the hospital, and that she flushed the syringe and the bottle down a toilet afterwards. Columbia Police Detective Sgt. Dale Richardson frowned as he sat nearby listening to Mrs. Miller's testi-mony. He leaned forward from time to time as if to catch her response. Richardson was one of two Columbia po-lice detectives who testified they watched as Mrs. Miller signed the confession. Eng attempted to further discredit the validity of the confession by charging that McMillen coerced Mrs. Mill-er into signing. " Now, Mr. McMillen," he said, " there was a little bit of trickery here, wasn't there?" Mrs. Miller testified she was promised she would be released to make funeral ar-rangements for her husband if she signed the confession. Eng also criticized McMillen for discarding his notes of his conversation with Mrs. Miller. " Now, we don't know exactly what those notes say, do we?" he asked in cross- examinati- on of the detective. " No, sir," McMillen answered. Others called to testify Wednesday included three ex-pert witnesses. Dr. Jay Dix, Boone County medical examiner, testified mat Miller died of an insulin overdose. Dix said Miller's condition at the time of his death could not have been produced naturally. Yet two doctors testifying in Mrs. Miller's defense told the jury insulin only rarely causes death and added that BBBHBlEeulBtnluBBLLi- mLfflfti-r' iBriMw JSHLBBHltBraSBH ffflHftBlKHEeKinBHHHBHHBHBKc. lHr! 2fc Ak. jbT flHMHBHWBBiBMBBllP . SHHHHBH9B1 Murder defendant Dolores Miller, 53, right, chats with defense character witness Patsy Miller could have died as a result of any of a number of complications resulting from the removal of the brain tu-mor. Dr. Ron James, a Columbia physician who is himself a diabetic and a specialist in diabetic treatment, testified that an overdose of insulin rarely kills. The effect is to decrease blood sugar levels in the body, he explained. He said an overdose may cause profuse perspiration, convulsions or epileptic seizures. Dr. George Gantner, chief medical examiner for St. Louis and St. Louis County, admitted that an insulin Greg Horstmeler Hayes of Kennett, Mo., Wednesday outside a Union, Mo., courtroom. overdose could cause death, but said Miller's death could just as easily have been caused by a number of other fac-tors. Mrs. Miller remains free on bond, which was reduced from $ 150,000 to $ 1,000 after her case was transferred in September to Franklin County. Judge John Brackman said he reduced the bond because the Franklin County Jail has no space for women. Brackman later disqualified himself from hearing the trial at the request of Moseley. Circuit Judge Lawrence Davis is conducting Mrs. Miller's trial. I 1 10 a. m.-- 4 p. m. Red Cross Bloodmobile at Truman Veter-ans Hospital. 5 p. m.- 6: 3- 0 p. m. Chili supper at West Junior High School. Tickets available at door, $ 2. Inside Business .7A Classified 3- 4- B Comics .. . ................. 6A Opinion 4A Record 7A Sports 1- 2- B Hallsville 3B I Man who sprayed dioxin gives a tearful testimony By Joe Lambe State Capitol Bureau Russell Bliss, the used- o- il hauler who in 1971 sprayed dioxin- tainte- d oil on property throughout Missouri to keep down the dust, wept Thurs-day as he testified before the state House Energy and Atomic Energy Committee. " I swear to all of you I had no idea this material was bad," he said in his first public testimony. " I just wish it had been disposed of in some other way." Bliss was introduced by Speaker of the House Robert Griffin, D- Camer- - on, who dodged wires and TV camer-as on his way to the podium. Most legislative committee meetings are marked by half a dozen half empty coffee cups left in their wake. This one drew a full house. " IT1 tell you the truth," said Bliss. " I'm not going to beat around the bush." . , Tears ran down his cheeks as oe reclaimed his innocence. He had no Elea dioxin was in the oil, be said. The owners of horse arenas where I the poisonous oil was first sprayed were friends, he said. They had been impressed by the absence of dust at the arena on Bliss' farm near Rosa- t- i, Mo., where he said he raises prize- winnin- g horses. When they found out he had sprayed with oil, they asked him to spray their are-nas, he continued. EPA tests later revealed that diox-in levels at Bliss' farm were 300 parts per billion a dangerously high concentration. Yet Bliss said it had little effect on his livestock or his family. About six chickens and many wild birds died after he sprayed, he said, but he assumed they'd been poisoned by picking through horse droppings containing a toxic deworming com-pound. " I never even thought the oil might have caused it," he said. " I want you to understand my love for animals I wouldn't intentionally do anything to harm an animal." In fact, no one suspected the oil to be the culprit until long after birds, See BLISS, Page 8A. Py9p5jEaBB " fflfflfflllpHrffliffi Reagan fires arms director Conservative victory By United Press International WASHINGTON President Reagan, m a major high- lev- el purge that followed months of political infighUng. Wednesday fired the director of the U. S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and replaced one of his top arms negoUators. Reagan announced he was replacing embattled agency Director Eugene Rostow with Kenneth Adelman, deputy U. S. representative to the United Nations, in a move like-ly to placate hard- lin- e conservatives and infuriate arms control advocates. The president aho replaced Richard Staar. who since 1981 has been negotiating conventional force reductions in Europe at talks in Vienna, with Morton Abramowitz, a career foreign service officer. And, rejecting the recommendation of ilostow and Sec-retary of State George Shultz, Keagan further announced he will nominate former Rep. David Emery, R- Ma- me, as deputy director of the arms control agency. In a written statement. Reagan called the members of his reconstituted arms control team '" men of great dis-tinction and dedication" and reaffirmed his determin- atio- n to seek reductions in conventional and nuclear arms. " It is essential that we press forward in the search for arms reduction." he said. '" We shall be unrelenUng in our efforts." Reagan said Shultz shares his " high confidence" in the new nominees. For months, Rostow has been the target of sniping from conservative Republican senators who did not view him as sufficiently hard- lin- e, and succeeded in torpe-doing the nominations of his deputy and one of his chief assistants. Rostow, in a brief statement, said: ' it has been a priv-ilege to serve as director of the Arms Control and Disar-mament Agency for the past 20 months. In recent days, it has become clear that the president wished to make changes. In response to his request, I have tendered my resignation." He indicated it was Shultz who informed him of the reasons behind the firing. Vice President George Bush, who is leaving the coun-try at the end of the month to discuss recent Soviet arms reduction proposals with European allies, said he did not believe the Rostow resignation would alter his own mis-sion. " I don't see any effect on the trip." he said " I mean things go on. The talks will resume on schedule and that's the key thing." He refused to comment on whether Rostow was fired and said the changeover " came as a big surprise to me." A conservative Democrat who served as undersecre-tary of state in the Johnson administration, Rostow also did not get along with the White House national security staff. Where have the creative leaders gone? New York Times NEW YORK Most attempts to reform the universities in the past 20 years have failed. They fell victim to faculty conservatism and weak pres-idential leadership. This is the judgment of Clark Kerr, former president of the University of Cali-fornia and chairman of the Carnegie Council on Higher Education. " Where," asked Kerr, " have the leaders gone? They have gone where they have also gone in corporations, unions and government." They have, he believes, given way to decision- - making by the marketplace and to a participatory democracy that gives special- intere- st groups the power to veto changes. " Leadership does matter," Kerr stresses, particularly in troubled times. In recent such times, Ken- says- , presidents " were used like Kleenex." Kerr is a seasoned academic ob-server and, in the view of many, also one of the most reasonable ones. He expressed his recent critical views in an unusual dialogue with himself a second postscript to a small but important volume, " The Uses of the Universities losing power, critic says University," originally published in 1963, one year before the student re-volt at Berkeley touched off nation-wide and ultimately worldwide stu-dent uprisings and demands for reforms. The book was reissued in 1972 with a postscript in which Kerr responded to misinterpretations of his original work but also set down things he wished he had said differently. Now, in another reissue by Harvard Uni-versity Press, he has added a second postscript, trying to. diagnose the obstacles to academic reforms in the great research universities. The original volume became known for Kerr's new definition of the university as a " multiversity" an institution with many purposes and constituencies. In a prescient as-sessment of changes that were about to shake both the academic and the real world, he wrote of the coming " knowledge industry." Dissident students subsequently accused him of wishing to turn universities into " knowledge factories," and of want-ing to create giant multiversities that would turn students into mere pawns of an impersonal system. Dis-sident politicians accused him of aid-ing and abetting the student revolt, and Ronald Reagan, then Californ-ia's governor, pressed the Board of Regents into firing him. What his critics failed to note was that Kerr had pinpointed serious problems in need of reform: the pro-fessors' neglect of undergraduate teaching, and the deterioration of the curriculum into a variety of training programs for specialists, to the neglect of generalists. In his latest postscript, Kerr pays tribute to the durability of the great research universities, but also points out that they owe their stability to the fact that other institutions the two- ye- ar community colleges and the four- ye- ar colleges absorbed the shock of a huge expansion. The community colleges alone expanded from an enrollment of 400,000 in 1960 to four million in 1980. But on the negative side, most efforts to make the universities responsive to stu-dents' legitimate demands for good teaching have, in Kerr's view, failed. Why? " The essential conserva-tism of faculty members about their own affairs," says Kerr, is one rea-son. Since universities are run by consensus, the older members usual-ly prevail, and for the younger fac-ulty there is no reward in seeking in-novation only tiresome negotiations, often ending m disap-pointment. Most academic reforms, Kerr says, are initiated by students, who are " notoriously inconstant in their efforts, partly because of their rapid turnover and their responsiveness to current fads." And when adminis-trators try to bring about change, they usually are outmaneuvered by faculty committees. Why do faculty members tend to oppose change? Largely because the proposed reforms would force them to spend more time with students or provide broader coverage of sub-jects they prefer to limit to their own ( often rather narrow) scholarly in-terests. Professors who opposed the changes proposed in the 1960s gener-ally supported the trend of the 1970s a trend toward greater specializa-tion because it promised to keep undergraduates out of their hair as they concentrated on their research and a few graduate students. " The academic changes of the 1960s," says Kerr, " originated in student bull sessions and in the minds and hearts of administrators who listened to students; they died in the faculty clubs." As examples, Kerr cites the declines in such pro-grams as black and Hispanic stud-ies. Many observers see the same fate for women's studies and urban affairs programs. The reform movement, Kerr says, " was a flame that burned brightly for a while and then flickered out, its extinction mourned by only a few." And he adds: " I count myself among those few." Russell Bliss told a state House committee Wednesday that he unknowingly sprayed oil Rax Penning contaminated with deadly dioxin at several areas in Missouri. i Flood debris trucked to county landfill TIMES BEACH, Mo. ( UPI) A caravan of sealed trucks loaded with flood debris left dioxin- contaminat- ed Times Beach under police escort Wednesday and was met by nearly 30 helmeted state troopers at a land-fill in Warren County. Although residents of Warren County had vowed to form a human barricade to block the trucks, the ve-hicles entered the landfill without in-cident. The troopers stood in forma-tion at the landfill entrance as the trucks passed by. The crowd of about 40 people be-gan chanting as the trucks neared, but their words were drowned out by the drone of media helicopters over-head. Lt. Walter Palmer of the Highway Patrol had addressed the crowd with a bullhorn prior to the trucks' arri-val, and warned that violence would lead to arrests. Gene Rugh, a member of an envi-ronmental group, said he asked the See POLLUTANT, Page 8A. i
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Item.Transcript | 75th Year No. 103 Good Morning! It's Thursday, January 13, 1983 2 Sections 12 Pages 25 Cents Murder suspect claims trickery led to confession By Scott Nishimura Mittsourtan atafl writer UNION, Mo. In a packed courtroom, Dolores Miller denied Wednesday that she killed her husband with an in-sulin overdose and testified that she was tricked into ad-mitting to the crime. Her appearance in her own defense at her capital mur-der trial ended the third day of testimony. The jury will hear final arguments and begin deliberations today. Mrs. Miller is charged with the March 1962 death of her husband, Erroll " Roy" Miller. Miller died while re-covering from brain surgery at Truman Veteran Hospi-tal in Columbia. Columbia Police Detective Randy McMillen, who took Miller's statement March 11, also testified Wednesday. He said Mrs. Miller told him she killed her husband as an act of mercy she told him that prior to the operation Miller indicated he was afraid he " would be a vegeta-ble." Boone County Prosecutor Joe Moseley stressed throughout his examination of prosecution witnesses that a bag full of syringes had been found in Mrs. Miller's car following her arrest. When Mrs. Miller took the stand, defense attorney Pat-rick Eng asked her to point out statements in her March 11 confession that she considered untrue. Among the points she said were false were the claims that she in-jected insulin into her husband's I. V. bag using an insulin bottle and a syringe she had taken from a nurses station at the hospital, and that she flushed the syringe and the bottle down a toilet afterwards. Columbia Police Detective Sgt. Dale Richardson frowned as he sat nearby listening to Mrs. Miller's testi-mony. He leaned forward from time to time as if to catch her response. Richardson was one of two Columbia po-lice detectives who testified they watched as Mrs. Miller signed the confession. Eng attempted to further discredit the validity of the confession by charging that McMillen coerced Mrs. Mill-er into signing. " Now, Mr. McMillen," he said, " there was a little bit of trickery here, wasn't there?" Mrs. Miller testified she was promised she would be released to make funeral ar-rangements for her husband if she signed the confession. Eng also criticized McMillen for discarding his notes of his conversation with Mrs. Miller. " Now, we don't know exactly what those notes say, do we?" he asked in cross- examinati- on of the detective. " No, sir," McMillen answered. Others called to testify Wednesday included three ex-pert witnesses. Dr. Jay Dix, Boone County medical examiner, testified mat Miller died of an insulin overdose. Dix said Miller's condition at the time of his death could not have been produced naturally. Yet two doctors testifying in Mrs. Miller's defense told the jury insulin only rarely causes death and added that BBBHBlEeulBtnluBBLLi- mLfflfti-r' iBriMw JSHLBBHltBraSBH ffflHftBlKHEeKinBHHHBHHBHBKc. lHr! 2fc Ak. jbT flHMHBHWBBiBMBBllP . SHHHHBH9B1 Murder defendant Dolores Miller, 53, right, chats with defense character witness Patsy Miller could have died as a result of any of a number of complications resulting from the removal of the brain tu-mor. Dr. Ron James, a Columbia physician who is himself a diabetic and a specialist in diabetic treatment, testified that an overdose of insulin rarely kills. The effect is to decrease blood sugar levels in the body, he explained. He said an overdose may cause profuse perspiration, convulsions or epileptic seizures. Dr. George Gantner, chief medical examiner for St. Louis and St. Louis County, admitted that an insulin Greg Horstmeler Hayes of Kennett, Mo., Wednesday outside a Union, Mo., courtroom. overdose could cause death, but said Miller's death could just as easily have been caused by a number of other fac-tors. Mrs. Miller remains free on bond, which was reduced from $ 150,000 to $ 1,000 after her case was transferred in September to Franklin County. Judge John Brackman said he reduced the bond because the Franklin County Jail has no space for women. Brackman later disqualified himself from hearing the trial at the request of Moseley. Circuit Judge Lawrence Davis is conducting Mrs. Miller's trial. I 1 10 a. m.-- 4 p. m. Red Cross Bloodmobile at Truman Veter-ans Hospital. 5 p. m.- 6: 3- 0 p. m. Chili supper at West Junior High School. Tickets available at door, $ 2. Inside Business .7A Classified 3- 4- B Comics .. . ................. 6A Opinion 4A Record 7A Sports 1- 2- B Hallsville 3B I Man who sprayed dioxin gives a tearful testimony By Joe Lambe State Capitol Bureau Russell Bliss, the used- o- il hauler who in 1971 sprayed dioxin- tainte- d oil on property throughout Missouri to keep down the dust, wept Thurs-day as he testified before the state House Energy and Atomic Energy Committee. " I swear to all of you I had no idea this material was bad," he said in his first public testimony. " I just wish it had been disposed of in some other way." Bliss was introduced by Speaker of the House Robert Griffin, D- Camer- - on, who dodged wires and TV camer-as on his way to the podium. Most legislative committee meetings are marked by half a dozen half empty coffee cups left in their wake. This one drew a full house. " IT1 tell you the truth," said Bliss. " I'm not going to beat around the bush." . , Tears ran down his cheeks as oe reclaimed his innocence. He had no Elea dioxin was in the oil, be said. The owners of horse arenas where I the poisonous oil was first sprayed were friends, he said. They had been impressed by the absence of dust at the arena on Bliss' farm near Rosa- t- i, Mo., where he said he raises prize- winnin- g horses. When they found out he had sprayed with oil, they asked him to spray their are-nas, he continued. EPA tests later revealed that diox-in levels at Bliss' farm were 300 parts per billion a dangerously high concentration. Yet Bliss said it had little effect on his livestock or his family. About six chickens and many wild birds died after he sprayed, he said, but he assumed they'd been poisoned by picking through horse droppings containing a toxic deworming com-pound. " I never even thought the oil might have caused it," he said. " I want you to understand my love for animals I wouldn't intentionally do anything to harm an animal." In fact, no one suspected the oil to be the culprit until long after birds, See BLISS, Page 8A. Py9p5jEaBB " fflfflfflllpHrffliffi Reagan fires arms director Conservative victory By United Press International WASHINGTON President Reagan, m a major high- lev- el purge that followed months of political infighUng. Wednesday fired the director of the U. S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and replaced one of his top arms negoUators. Reagan announced he was replacing embattled agency Director Eugene Rostow with Kenneth Adelman, deputy U. S. representative to the United Nations, in a move like-ly to placate hard- lin- e conservatives and infuriate arms control advocates. The president aho replaced Richard Staar. who since 1981 has been negotiating conventional force reductions in Europe at talks in Vienna, with Morton Abramowitz, a career foreign service officer. And, rejecting the recommendation of ilostow and Sec-retary of State George Shultz, Keagan further announced he will nominate former Rep. David Emery, R- Ma- me, as deputy director of the arms control agency. In a written statement. Reagan called the members of his reconstituted arms control team '" men of great dis-tinction and dedication" and reaffirmed his determin- atio- n to seek reductions in conventional and nuclear arms. " It is essential that we press forward in the search for arms reduction." he said. '" We shall be unrelenUng in our efforts." Reagan said Shultz shares his " high confidence" in the new nominees. For months, Rostow has been the target of sniping from conservative Republican senators who did not view him as sufficiently hard- lin- e, and succeeded in torpe-doing the nominations of his deputy and one of his chief assistants. Rostow, in a brief statement, said: ' it has been a priv-ilege to serve as director of the Arms Control and Disar-mament Agency for the past 20 months. In recent days, it has become clear that the president wished to make changes. In response to his request, I have tendered my resignation." He indicated it was Shultz who informed him of the reasons behind the firing. Vice President George Bush, who is leaving the coun-try at the end of the month to discuss recent Soviet arms reduction proposals with European allies, said he did not believe the Rostow resignation would alter his own mis-sion. " I don't see any effect on the trip." he said " I mean things go on. The talks will resume on schedule and that's the key thing." He refused to comment on whether Rostow was fired and said the changeover " came as a big surprise to me." A conservative Democrat who served as undersecre-tary of state in the Johnson administration, Rostow also did not get along with the White House national security staff. Where have the creative leaders gone? New York Times NEW YORK Most attempts to reform the universities in the past 20 years have failed. They fell victim to faculty conservatism and weak pres-idential leadership. This is the judgment of Clark Kerr, former president of the University of Cali-fornia and chairman of the Carnegie Council on Higher Education. " Where," asked Kerr, " have the leaders gone? They have gone where they have also gone in corporations, unions and government." They have, he believes, given way to decision- - making by the marketplace and to a participatory democracy that gives special- intere- st groups the power to veto changes. " Leadership does matter," Kerr stresses, particularly in troubled times. In recent such times, Ken- says- , presidents " were used like Kleenex." Kerr is a seasoned academic ob-server and, in the view of many, also one of the most reasonable ones. He expressed his recent critical views in an unusual dialogue with himself a second postscript to a small but important volume, " The Uses of the Universities losing power, critic says University," originally published in 1963, one year before the student re-volt at Berkeley touched off nation-wide and ultimately worldwide stu-dent uprisings and demands for reforms. The book was reissued in 1972 with a postscript in which Kerr responded to misinterpretations of his original work but also set down things he wished he had said differently. Now, in another reissue by Harvard Uni-versity Press, he has added a second postscript, trying to. diagnose the obstacles to academic reforms in the great research universities. The original volume became known for Kerr's new definition of the university as a " multiversity" an institution with many purposes and constituencies. In a prescient as-sessment of changes that were about to shake both the academic and the real world, he wrote of the coming " knowledge industry." Dissident students subsequently accused him of wishing to turn universities into " knowledge factories," and of want-ing to create giant multiversities that would turn students into mere pawns of an impersonal system. Dis-sident politicians accused him of aid-ing and abetting the student revolt, and Ronald Reagan, then Californ-ia's governor, pressed the Board of Regents into firing him. What his critics failed to note was that Kerr had pinpointed serious problems in need of reform: the pro-fessors' neglect of undergraduate teaching, and the deterioration of the curriculum into a variety of training programs for specialists, to the neglect of generalists. In his latest postscript, Kerr pays tribute to the durability of the great research universities, but also points out that they owe their stability to the fact that other institutions the two- ye- ar community colleges and the four- ye- ar colleges absorbed the shock of a huge expansion. The community colleges alone expanded from an enrollment of 400,000 in 1960 to four million in 1980. But on the negative side, most efforts to make the universities responsive to stu-dents' legitimate demands for good teaching have, in Kerr's view, failed. Why? " The essential conserva-tism of faculty members about their own affairs," says Kerr, is one rea-son. Since universities are run by consensus, the older members usual-ly prevail, and for the younger fac-ulty there is no reward in seeking in-novation only tiresome negotiations, often ending m disap-pointment. Most academic reforms, Kerr says, are initiated by students, who are " notoriously inconstant in their efforts, partly because of their rapid turnover and their responsiveness to current fads." And when adminis-trators try to bring about change, they usually are outmaneuvered by faculty committees. Why do faculty members tend to oppose change? Largely because the proposed reforms would force them to spend more time with students or provide broader coverage of sub-jects they prefer to limit to their own ( often rather narrow) scholarly in-terests. Professors who opposed the changes proposed in the 1960s gener-ally supported the trend of the 1970s a trend toward greater specializa-tion because it promised to keep undergraduates out of their hair as they concentrated on their research and a few graduate students. " The academic changes of the 1960s," says Kerr, " originated in student bull sessions and in the minds and hearts of administrators who listened to students; they died in the faculty clubs." As examples, Kerr cites the declines in such pro-grams as black and Hispanic stud-ies. Many observers see the same fate for women's studies and urban affairs programs. The reform movement, Kerr says, " was a flame that burned brightly for a while and then flickered out, its extinction mourned by only a few." And he adds: " I count myself among those few." Russell Bliss told a state House committee Wednesday that he unknowingly sprayed oil Rax Penning contaminated with deadly dioxin at several areas in Missouri. i Flood debris trucked to county landfill TIMES BEACH, Mo. ( UPI) A caravan of sealed trucks loaded with flood debris left dioxin- contaminat- ed Times Beach under police escort Wednesday and was met by nearly 30 helmeted state troopers at a land-fill in Warren County. Although residents of Warren County had vowed to form a human barricade to block the trucks, the ve-hicles entered the landfill without in-cident. The troopers stood in forma-tion at the landfill entrance as the trucks passed by. The crowd of about 40 people be-gan chanting as the trucks neared, but their words were drowned out by the drone of media helicopters over-head. Lt. Walter Palmer of the Highway Patrol had addressed the crowd with a bullhorn prior to the trucks' arri-val, and warned that violence would lead to arrests. Gene Rugh, a member of an envi-ronmental group, said he asked the See POLLUTANT, Page 8A. i |