University Daily Kansan, September 5, 1984
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NATION AND WORLD
Prosecution opens meat packers'trial
By United Press International
DENVER - A meatpacker who sold tons of beef to the military and the federal government for school lunch wanted to make a profit at any cost, even if it meant recycling tainted meat, a prosecutor said yesterday.
Rudolph "Butch" Stanko, 37, of Gering, Neb. former owner of the new-detail Cattle King Packing Co., is accused of violating federal meatpacking regulations at the company's Denver area plant.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles Torres told a jury of 10 women and two men that Cattle King employees punctured gas-infilated packages of rejected meat to hide its condition so they could reclaim it or re-process it.
closed Cattle King after widespread publicity. Earlier, NBC TV ran a show about the plant on its "First Camera" program.
Stanko, who denied all charges.
Also on trial is Gary Waderick, 29. a sales executive at the Denver area plant, which was once one of the federal government's top beef suppliers.
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Defense attorneys claimed federal prosecutors were goaded into court action because of the NBC show.
treated for minor cuts and eardrum damage. No one was killed, police said, and all but two people were treated and released from the hospital. The showroom and 30 cars on display were destroyed. Buildings along the blast ripped tiles off roofs, topped walls and tapped windows Broken glass scattered over a 10-area block, showering lunchtime shopper, witnesses said.
Stanko, Waderick and Cattle King are on trial on one count of conspiracy and six counts of violating federal meat regulations.
Two other employees pleaded guilty to charges earlier.
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They said the government case centered on testimony from three ex-employees who violated federal meat regulations.
BELFAST, Northern Ireland — A car bomb exploded outside an auto showroom in Newry yesterday, injuring 71 people as police evacuated the area after receiving two warning calls from the outlawed Irish Republic American.
The 300 pound bomb was planted in a Ford ESC parked on the street outside a car showroom in the center of the town of about 13,000 people. 35 miles southwest of Belfast and several miles north of the border with the Irish republic.
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