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$1 BILLION HARTWELL CASE Monsanto Naified in Suit amoved From Home ANDERSON, S.C. (AP)- tors and suspected of causing health officials issued sn advl* wegree of care" In the dial Tbe Monsanto Company of St. cancer. He said the suit sory against eating fish taken button of the .chemical Louts, Mo., bas been named a codefendant In a $1 billion class action suit on behalf of charges that by virtue of from Lake Hartwell because producing PCBs, Monsanto Is j of the PCB contamination. 1 liable for damages sustained I Tests conducted by the users and should have warn of potential hazards and "strictly liable" for Lake Hartwell ; property by property owners as a re South Carolina Department of to the public owners in Georgia and South sult of the Lake Hartwell : Health and Environmental Cole said, if the suit Is a - Carolina. - s, Control at that time indicated copied as a class action, U In an Amended complaint The suit says that the PCB- ,tbat the PCB content in fish lake properly owoers at. i filed Wednesday In federal contaminiUon has caused a taken from one section of the businesses would be the ber court In Greenville, S.C., Mon* lowering of properly values ) lake ranged from 3 to 15 flciarles of any award. unto was accused of negll* and a loss In profit to busi iparts per million. The EPA genet and "strict liability" In . nesses along the lake. has set recommened safety its production of PCBs, or The action, Cole said, has 'limits of PCBs to fish at 5 Rare Coins, I KUtlflw' polychlorinated biphenyls, ae* been filed on behalf of four parts per million. cording to Ronole Cole, a classes; property owners Subsequent tests ' have member of the Anderson, S.C, whose lands touch Lake Hart `shown the level of contamina law firm which filed the com* well; boating and marine tion has risen to as high as 33 | plaint - '- dealers on the lake, residents parts per million. i , The suit, filed about two within a three mile of the i' Sangamo Is under federal I weeke ago, originally named lake's shoreline and all com* ; orders to bring Its PCB dis* the . Sangamo Electric mercial businesses that sell 'charge within the EPA'i | Company of Pickens, SC. Iake*rc1ated products within recommended levels by the ' Sangamo has been Identified three miles of the shoreline. " ;end of September. as a source of PCBs, which : Earlier this month, the 'ir Specifically, the suit have been found In high levels Environmental Protection Ag* 'charges that Monsanto should in Lake Hartwell. . ency and South Carolina .have "exercised the highest AUCTION, SAT. SIPT. 2S, 1P.M. NtaehtiMM Pne 4pfretMh to IWMm iendkie, Me.wdi. Ceiee't.PH*. IHW . ft . AM**. IA M*i aSMSOS________ Cole said Monsanto Is the sole producer of PCBs, a group of organic chemicals used by Sangamo la its mano* faclure of electrical capaclta** g Pistol in Home Death by Officer ihat Kevin was 'hooting Inside the None of the three-two litters md bis mother-was! ` ` ;h detectives said. . r When Officer Knox and Officer A. a Bell approached :he house, Swinney said police me told, a shot came hrouih tba porch acreen and hR officers took cover at the ide of the porch. "Kevin came to the porch nd began manning with Ms ;tm, and when be pointed at lie officers, officer Knox fired," according to " ven bullet boles wero (Mod iDilde the home, and three were found In the porch screen, Ballew said. .... ... The detectives said they wero not certain late Than* day night why the youth was ` " Inside tba house Arms Sale Hit TEL AVIV (AP) - The Israeli Parliament Thursday criticised American plans to sell billions of dollars worth of arms to Sabdl Arabia. FEATURING & . - .? " ' : . *! A ^ 1 IRPMIA llhlll Ml Mi A SUPERIOR LINE OF FIRST O' MONS 036765 ISPLACE HP TIME* WE FEATURE ONE OF THE LARGES SELECTION! OF QUALITY PJIDBET