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Show The bride wore white World Bank says and a gun - The CORUNNA, Mich. (AP) bride wore white and a revolver. The band was called SPOC which is COPS spelled backward. Unsuspecting guests were asked to check their guns at the door the better to arrest them after the nuptials. Figuring it's easier to make drug suspects come to you than to round them up, police staged a wedding Friday, complete with undercover bride, groom, pastor and band, rnd invited a group of suspects. A dozen people were arrested at the scene; by Saturday afternoon, 16 were in custody. The cue to begin the arrests? The band played the '60s hit "I Fought the Law." The arrested guests had received invitations to a wedding of a large-scal- e drug dealer who had g customer of been a theirs. But groom "Danny Brown" actually was Lacy Brown, an under- A6 National Sunday, September 23, 1990 The Daily Herald. I'rovo, Utah U.S. income lagged r 4;!- h -, t J) 'v-- LI study. The average Swiss equivalent of $30,270 level in the world reported. J ple. Additionally, the average American enjoys more living space, a bigger car and eats a lot l If : Mc-Car- ty IF YOU HEAR BUT h arrests in the next few days on charges of delivering marijuana, cocaine, LSD and other drugs. Warrants allege that since May, Brown bought drugs from 54 people in the county, leading dealers to believe he worked for an oven These allegations and others about Hazelwood's alleged drinking were contained in the government's response Thursday to Exxon's request that all criminal counts against it be dropped. Exxon was indicted in February on five counts related to the March 1989 spill. If convicted, the company could be fined more than $600 million. The Exxon Valdez struck a charted reef and dumped nearly 11 million gallons of North Slope crude oil into Alaska waters. Tens of thousands of birds and mammals died in the nation's worst oil bigger organization headed by the fictional Fast Eddie Leno. Retired Flint police Sgt. Michael Parrish posed as the Rev. Billy Ray Hawk and performed the service. Brown's wife, Beth, posed as maid of honor. 1987-198- $500. i DON'T UNDERSTAND . . . MIRACLE EAR MAY BE YOUR ANSWER. AP Laserphoto FREE HEARING TEST Flint, Mich., police officers Debra Williams, left, and Larry Brown, right, posed as bride and groom Friday night as part of a sting operation to attract suspected drug dealers. Prosecutors: Exxon knew about drinking parties charges Exxon Valdez skipper Joseph Hazelwood regularly was host of drinking parties and tossed his empty whiskey bottles overboard. According to the government, Exxon Corp. knew since 1985 that Hazelwood was diagnosed with two medical problems episodic alcohol abuse and a type of mood disturbance or depression called dysthymia. The government also accused Exxon of failing to monitor Hazel-woo- d after he was treated for alcohol abuse in 1985. Monitoring would have revealed that he continued to drink while on duty jp to the day of the Valdez wreck, the prosecutors said. "The Exxon Medical Department had a duty to ensure that Hazel-woo- d was fit to command oil tankers," prosecutors said. They called his alcohol abuse and dysthymia problems "serious" and "known to impair judgment." . more meat than the average Japanese. At the bottom of the list were impoverished Ethiopia and Tanzania, where the average citizen earned just $120 in 1989. The report said average income declined for 900 million people in 64 areas, half of them in southern Africa. It added that figures were not complete but there also were decreases in about a dozen Latin American countries and almost as many in an area that included Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. Nevertheless, the study found fig9 were an improveures for ment over the 1980s as a whole. About 2.4 billion people lived in countries where incomes were growing. They included the world's two most populous countries, China and India. In China the average rose to $360 from the previous year's $330, and the increase was from $340 to $350 in India. However, more than half the 2.9 billion world's population lived in countries where people the average income was less than &M1 1 fS. Y 1 undercover investigation. But Brown, an undercover officer for nearly 20 years, organized the wedding so he could retire with a bang. Shiawassee County Sheriff A.J. LaJoye said he expects more (AP) the Part but not all of the difference was due to the low value of the dollar on world exchanges, a bank spokesman said. Other factors affecting the variances are lower prices in the United States than in Japan, for exam- guests who were really undercover police hid theirs instead. After the vows, the toasts and the dancing, the band played "I Fought the Law," the cue for Port Huron police Sgt. Phil to announce that all police officers should stand up. Most of those still seated were arrested. "No, this is real. You're really under arrest," McCarty said told the stunned suspects. Shiawassee County Sgt. Vic Alaska among necessarily reflect living standards, were part of a bank study of 185 areas released Friday. or leave them outside. Those ANCHORAGE, countries Other world's top earners included Luxembourg with $24,860 average income, Finland at $22,060, Norway; $21,850, Sweden; $21,710 and Iceland, $21,240. The Japanese average was $23,730. The income figures, which do not Eddie Leno," was Davison Township police Chief Ed Boyce. At the door of the reception hall in Corunna west of Flint, a sign asked guests to check their guns Federal prosecutors say Exxon Corp. knew for years about the highest the bank the - earned cover investigator. The bride, "Debbie Leno," was Flint police Officer Debra Williams. The bride's father, crime boss "Fast five-mont- World Bank released recently (j drug-buyin- Wasylyshyn headed the - Six Euro(AP) countries and Japan outstripped the average U.S. income of $21,100 last year, according to a WASHINGTON pean EVERY WEDNESDAY, "There was no intent to humiliate them," said Brown, a former police officer who works undercover for various agencies. "We just didn't want them to be suspicious. ... This was not fun, it was good police work." Miracle-Ea- r & FRIDAY Centers OREM myAtr 735 g. 1200 S. senior centers 801-224-94- 800-748-49- THURSDAY In 1945, Delmar Jensen, torn between exercising or listening to KALL Radio, unknowingly starts a new trd. spill. Court papers said that 19 months before the grounding, Exxon lawyers heard allegations that Hazel-woo- d had regularly held drinking parties aboard ships, tossing empty bottles overboard. "It was a bad joke in the fleet (that) it's Capt. 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