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UCLA Accused Of Dumping Bodies

  Source: Associated Press

 LOS ANGELES

When Robert Bennett Jr.'s mother Lorraine died of cancer in 1992, her body was
donated to the
UCLA medical school. The school promised to give the 61-year-old a decent
burial, but instead
Bennett says his mother's remains ended up in the trash.

  - She wasn't the only one, according to lawsuits.

  - As many as 18,000 bodies donated for research were wrongfully cremated
with dead lab animals
and   fetuses, the ashes dumped in trash bins, lawsuits against the University
of California at Los
Angeles charge.

  - ``How would people at UCLA feel if their parents were treated as if they
were garbage or
something?''  Bennett said.

  - James G. Terwilliger, vice provost for administration at the UCLA School
of Medicine, apologized
for mistreatment of the bodies. He said UCLA has taken ``aggressive steps'' to
correct the
problems,  including closing its crematorium.

  - The bodies were donated to the medical school to train students from the
1950s to at least
November 1993, according to the lawsuits filed Thursday by the families of two
victims.

  - Lawyers Raymond P. Boucher and Mickel M. Arias filed a class-action
lawsuit in Santa Monica on
behalf of  Robert Bennett.

  - In a separate lawsuit filed Thursday, the family of Annie Fisher, who also
died of cancer, accused
the school's department of anatomy of treating her body and thousands of
others with disrespect.

  - Terwilliger declined to comment on the specific allegations in the
lawsuits, saying university
lawyers had not yet reviewed them. He acknowledged a history of problems with
the disposal of
some donors to the  Willed Body Program, but said they have been rectified.

  - ``Today we are running a strong and well-run program,'' Terwilliger said.
``People should feel very
  comfortable that if they're inclined to consider this as an option ... that
people will be treated with
  compassion.''

  - The problems surfaced three years ago when a contractor hired to dispose
of 630 pounds of
human ashes was loading boxes onto a boat.

  - One of the boxes burst open, revealing broken syringe parts, glass vials,
used gauze and a
rubber glove along with the ashes. He reported his findings to state health
officials.

  - Bennett's lawsuit claims breach of contract, negligence, fraud and other
charges against the
Regents of the University of California, the School of Medicine, the director
of the department of
anatomy and two other employees.

  - It wasn't clear what damages the plaintiffs sought.

  - Medical students rely on a supply of cadavers for their training,
Terwilliger said. He wasn't sure
how many bodies are donated each year, but said a drop-off would hurt the
program.

  - ``It would certainly make it difficult for us to continue with our
educational mission,'' he said.
``Human remains are very critical piece'' of students' training, he said.

  [11-02-96 at 20:28 EST, Copyright 1996, The Associated Press]

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Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 16:59:43 -0500 (EST)
>From: allen schubert <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: (ZA) Conservationists propose horn trade to cut poaching
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from CNN web page:
-----------------------

                     Saving the rhinos from greed

                     Conservationists propose horn trade to
                     cut poaching

                       November 4, 1996
                       Web posted at: 2:00 p.m. EST (1900 GMT)

                       In this story:

                     From Correspondent Mike Hanna

                     KWAZULU, South Africa (CNN) -- In South Africa's


                     Pongola Valley -- where even a casual glance
                     leaves the impression that time has stood still --
                     the past has been restored for those in the
                     present and the future.

                     Karel Landman once farmed wheat and cattle in the
                     valley, but now he has allowed the land to fall
                     fallow, paving the way for nature to reclaim its
                     own. And he has reintroduced animals that vanished
                     from the area a century ago.

                     "In the end of the day when you look
                     back at what you've achieved, it's a
                     great feeling to see that you've contributed
                     something to conservation by bringing back what
                     people destroyed," Landman said.

                     One of those returning species is an animal that
                     was on the brink of extinction -- the rhinoceros.
                     Landman says that after 30 million years, the
                     rhinoceros was finally doomed -- or nearly so --
                     by the greed and corruption of man.

                     Apart from an aggressive bull of its own kind, the
                     rhino's only natural enemy is man. And the
                     creature's horn, evolved for defense, has become
                     the reason for its mass destruction.

                     In the past two decades more than 60,000 rhinos
                     have been slaughtered for a horn that has become
                     more valuable than gold. Poachers will be paid
                     less than $100 per kilogram, but to some in Africa
                     that sum is more than a year's income.

                     The wholesale price in cities like Hong Kong rises
                     to more than $5,000 per kilogram. But on the
                     streets of South Asia -- after the horn has been
                     ground into powder and mixed with other
                     ingredients to form a traditional medicine -- its
                     value rockets tenfold to nearly $50,000 per
                     kilogram.

                      Conservationist Clive Walker, whose
                               private game farm is a popular spot for
                     tourists eager to see rhinos in their natural
                     habitat, makes a preservation argument that would
                     have been unthinkable just a few years ago -- that
                     the only way to save the rhinoceros is to
                     establish a legal trade in the beasts' horns.

                     "The cost to governments to protect an animal like
                     this is becoming so prohibitive," he said. But a
                     legal horn trade "would release literally millions
                     of dollars ... that could be put into the
                     protection of these animals."

                     Wary of trade

                     An international ban on such a trade has been in
                     place for 19 years, but George Hughes, the
                     chairman of South Africa's Kwazulu Natal Park's
                     board, said the strategy has "been a disaster."

                      "The demand went up," he said.
                                    "The prices doubled ... and the
                     net result has been at tremendous outflow of rhino
                     and the crash of rhino populations everywhere."

                     Everywhere except South Africa, where the bulk of
                     the world's population of both black and white
                     rhinos is found. In particular a breeding program
                     at Kwazulu's Umfolosi Reserve has been critical in
                     ensuring the animal's survival. Each year,
                     conservationists tranquilize a select number of
                     the animals to be sold to zoos and ranches for
                     breeding.

                     But to sell the rhino for breeding purposes is one
                     thing, and to legalize trade in its horn is
                     another. And those proposing the trade admit
                     they've encountered strong international
                     resistance.

                     Walker says one of the main problems is the
                     tendency of the rest of the world to want to
                     dictate to Africans how to handle the wildlife
                     that lives on their continent. Admitting that the
                     idea of a legal trade is a sensitive issue, Walker
                     notes that rhinos do not have to die for their
                     horns.

                     Protection means jobs

                     Living rhinos also create jobs in
                     remote areas, where local men are hired
                     to track the creatures and try to keep them safe.
                     To them, a dead rhinoceros is worthless. Reserve
                     owner Landman says that he employees five times as
                     many people as he did when he farmed and adds that
                     the threat of poaching is greatly reduced when all
                     who live in the area have a stake in the welfare
                     of the wildlife.

                     "They see the animals as the source of income and
                     won't let anything slip their eye," he said.

                     The incidence of poaching has dropped markedly in
                     South Africa and other countries -- not only
                     because the rangers have been successful, but also
                     because there are so few rhinos left to poach. The
                     few that are left, Walker says, "are in tightly
                     patrolled sanctuaries" and watched closely.

                     Walker, who has raised motherless rhinos in his
                     home, said the species' demise would cost humanity
                     "something very special."

                     In the end, the campaign to allow legal trade in
                     rhino horns -- an attempt to reverse a
                     conservation policy built up over decades -- has
                     at its roots a simple philosophy: that the world
                     is a place of infinite variety, a range of species
                     woven together in a complex web. And if one part
                     should disappear, all that are left behind will be
                     diminished.


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Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 17:17:07 -0500 (EST)
>From: allen schubert <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: (US) Howard Lyman Lecture
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Posted for EarthSave Central PA (Located near Harrisburg PA):
---------------------------------------------------
Howard Lyman will speak on Friday, November 22, 1996, at 6:00 p.m., at
Embers Inn & Convention Center, Carlisle PA.  EarthSave Central PA will hold
a Turkey-Free Thanksgiving and host special guest speaker, Howard Lyman.

Howard Lyman is a fourth-generation ex-cattle rancher from Montana.  His
experience has taken him from the Montana Farmers Union to the National
Farmers Union to Capitol Hill as a lobbyist.  He is the founder and
executive director of "Voice for a Viable Future," is on the Board of
Advisors of EarthSave International, is the Director of the United States,
Humane Society's "Eathing with a Conscience" Campaign, and is serving as
President of the International Vegetarian Union.  Howard Lyman has appeared
on the Oprah Winfrey Show and Hard Copy following the outbreak of Mad Cow
Disease.  His knowledge and experience has made him one of the most
sought-after speakers in the environmental, vegetarian, and animal rights
movements, taking him all across the country and abroad.

Those attending will provide plant-based dishes for all to share.
Participation costs $5.00 for EarthSave Central PA members bringing a dish,
$7.00 for nonmembers bringing a dish, and $10.00 for general admission.
This is a fund-raising event for EarthSave Central PA.  Reservations and
additional information are available through EarthSave Central PA at:

EarthSave Central PA
PO Box 459
Carlisle, PA  17013
717-245-2329
717-944-0617


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Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 11:52:49 -0500
>From: Carmen Lee <[e-mail]>
To: AR-News <[e-mail]>
Subject: Library / Archive Project Needs Help
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

The Animals' Agenda [magazine] is currently establishing an animal rights
library and archive at its Baltimore [Maryland, USA] headquarters.  All
librarians, archivists, oral historians, and individuals interested in
assisting this project are invited to contact The Animals' Agenda (e-mail
[e-mail]) or the volunteer project coordinator (e-mail
[e-mail]).

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Date: 04 Nov 96 18:17:21 EST
>From: Pamelyn Ferdin <[e-mail]>
To: AR-News <[e-mail]>
Subject: NYC Protest 11/13/96
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

LEON HIRSCH, PRESIDENT OF   U.S. SURGICAL TO RECEIVE AWARD!

YES, IT IS HARD TO BELIEVE BUT........ SOUND SHORE MEDICAL CENTER WILL BE
PRESENTING HIM WITH AN AWARD ON NOVEMBER 13TH AT A CEREMONY TO BE
HELD AT THE
WALDORF ASTORIA HOTEL at 301 Park Ave. At 50th Street.

LET'S BE THERE WITH SIGNS AND HANDOUTS  (A LETTER FROM A SURGEON)
TELLING THE
GUESTS THE TRUTH ABOUT U.S. SURGICAL'S ABUSE OF ANIMALS.
                  TRY TO  WEAR BLACK
MEET IN FRONT OF THE WALDORF ASTORIA  AT 6:30 pm, WEDNESDAY,
NOVEMBER 13TH.
BRING SIGNS THAT HAVE PICTURES OF LAB DOGS AND/OR SIGNS THAT SAY
......................
     U.S. SURGICAL STAPLES DOGS TO DEATH!
     U.S. SURGICAL SLAUGHTERS DOGS!
     LEON HIRSCH KILLS INNOCENT DOGS TO MAKE MONEY!
     HIRSCH KILLS NEEDLESSLY FOR GREED!
          FOR FURTHER INFO. PLEASE CALL
    JERRY AT [phone] or
    BARBARA AT [phone]


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Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 20:17:01 -0500
>From: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail]
Subject: LC in Oregonian...
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Below is an article that appeared in the paper today in Portland...GO LC

Special Report
Passion and protest override comfort and complacency for these animal-rights
activists

Trying to stop animal suffering:  For Liberation Collective members, speaking
out against global oppression outweighs personal inconvenience

By Erin Hoover of the Oregonian staff

It's a weekday in Portland  Many people are working in warm buildings, their
coffee cups at arm's length.  But Craig Rosebraugh is sitting on cold
concrete, a bike lock linking his neck to the entrance of Legacy Health
System offices at Northwest 19th and Lovejoy.

Police officers, observing the nonviolent protest, move in after two hours
and arrest Rosebraugh and 10 other animal-rights demonstrators for
trespassing and criminal mischief.

The protesters spend eight hours communing with drug users and parole
violators in Justice Center Jail holding cells.

They don't sample the jail's macaroni and cheese.  On principle, they refuse
to eat dairy products or meat--but they think better than telling the guards.

For Rosebraugh, 24, and his compatriots in a group called the Liberation
Collective, the need to speak out outweighs the day's discomforts.  They live
the lives of activists, motivated more by principles than paychecks.

"If you did not know anything else about the issue, (the demonstration) would
look like a fanatical action to take," Rosebraugh says.  "But when you think
of all the suffering that goes on worldwide, not just with animals but with
humans, it makes you feel somewhat good that you're one of the few willing to
take a stand."

Rosebraugh works at a record store and teaches a social justice class as a
volunteer at a community school.  He helped found the Liberation Collective
eight months ago.

The group says it focuses on animal testing and the connections among all
forms of oppression, including issues of environmentalism and gay rights.

The Liberation Collective meets monthly at a Southeast Portland bookstore.
 But its 35 to 40 active members, ranging in age from 18 to 45, spend part of
every week planning demonstrations, staffing information tables and producing
a newsletter.

Members include college students, a bicycle messenger, a property management
employee and a dishwasher -- jobs that support and allow time for their
activism.

Each month, the group marches and pickets to draw attention to neurological
research conducted on cats at Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital.  Its Oct. 29
demonstration was the most confrontational, resulting in the 11 arrests.

For members such as Jeff Morehead, it was their first time in jail.

Morehead, 37, says he discovered activism and animal rights a year ago at a
conference he attended with his wife.

He was struck by the injustice of a few people with power inflicting pain on
the vulnerable, he says.  Ending such injustice could mean more compassion in
the world.  And he sees in the activists some of the heroism that seems lost
today.

Now, looking for work after being laid off from his bookstore manager's job,
he volunteers 30 hours a week with the Liberation Collective.

Sitting on a hard bench in a cell Tuesday, staring at walls caked in places
with blood, Morehead thought about his commitment.

"It's hard to say 100 percent that is isn't sometimes discouraging," Morehead
says.  "I can't see any other way to get people to listen at the moment."

The Liberation Collective has drawn a smattering of local media attention.
 Legacy Health Systems has refused to meet with the group.

Dr. Lutz Kiesow, Legacy Health Systems' chief of research, says the cat
research -- in which electrodes are implanted in cats' brains to study
balance -- helps shed light on such disorders as Parkinson's disease and
brain injuries in humans.

He credits protesters with ending unnecessary animal testing and improving
treatment of laboratory animals by making intense scrutiny by the federal
government and other groups routine.  But he says the protests now seem
counterproductive.

"The image some people have of the medieval scientist cruelly torturing
animals is absolutely ridiculous in the biomedical research environment of
today," Kiesow says.  Halting animal testing would mean losing the ability to
gather valuable information, he says.

But the Liberation Collective wants all animal testing to be replaced with
computer modeling, epidemiological studies, in vitro research or clinical
tests with humans.

Several of the arrested protesters have been activists for years, including a
41-year-old musician who joined the animal rights cause 20 years ago and
19-year-old Vanessa Villarreal.

Villarreal, who moved from California to Portland this year, says she became
an activist as a young adolescent when she marched in anti-Gulf War protests.
 She organized other students in high school to work at soup kitchens and get
involved in Earth Day.

Now she works in a gift shop on Southeast Hawthorne and attends Liberation
Collective protests.

"I just don't like sitting back and complaining about things," Villarreal
says.  "You have to do it.  Where would we be without protesters?"

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Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 20:23:45 -0500
>From: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Anti Fur Resources Available
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

We are selling the following books, reports, etc. to any interested parties.
 These items can be excellant resources for your anti fur campaigns this
season.

All orders must be done through snail mail, and can be sent to:
CAFT
PO Box 822411
Dallas, TX 75382


*Fur Farming in Finland $2
Seventy percent of the worlds fox farms are in Finland, and this report
describes, in detail, the conditions of the animals in these farms, as well
as the environmental ramifications of intensive fox farming.

*The Holland Reports $10
Holland became the first nation in the world to ban fox farming.  A mink
farming ban fell short by just a few votes.  This is a collection of reports,
used by the Dutch parliament, when deciding the fate of the anti fur farm
legislation.  One piece is too sympathetic to the fur industry, and is
followed by 12 articles refuting its claims.  This goes very in-depth into
the environmental and social deprivation that mink must endure on fur farms.
 Very good!

*Jaws of Steel by Thomas Eveland $8
This is the most comprehensive anti trapping book available.  This book
argues nearly every anti trapping argument, while devoting 4 chapters to
refuting pro trapping arguments with well reasoned, biological arguments.

*Living With Beaver by Thomas Eveland $3
Trappers try and defend their activity by claiming that they must control
beaver populations.  This booklet outlines non-lethal beaver control methods.
 It also discusses the environmental benefits of having a strong beaver
population.

*The Final Nail $2
This booklet is an ALF guide book to destroying the fur industry.  Above
ground groups might still find it useful as it lists known fur farms and
their locations.  If there is a farm nearby, you can get photos, etc. for
that local news angle at your protests

*The Final Nail supplement $1
Has some new farms listed, as well as articles about mink liberation and mink
adaptability to the wild.  Discusses new security measures being adopted by
fur farmers.

*No Blood For Vanity bumper sticker $2
If any groups want bulk amounts of these (10 or more) then we can sell them
for 70 cents a piece.  It is a glossy sticker with No Blood For Vanity in
blood red an Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade in black along with two
little mink.

*No Compromise #4, #3, and #2 $2 an issue
This is the news magazine of the direct action animal lib movement.  It
contains updates on civil disobedience campaigns, ALF updates, and news in
the grassroots animal rights movement.

*Underground #5 $3
News magazine of the North American ALF Supporters Group.  Contains articles
on the ALF mink liberation campaign, ALF news from around the world, etc.

All orders come with a free Point/Counterpoint flyer that refutes the 15 most
commonly used pro fur arguments.  You can still get this by sending a SASE or
donation to the CAFT address.

***********


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Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 20:19:02 -0800 (PST)
>From: David J Knowles <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: International Orangutan Awareness Week
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November 4th - 10th, 1996 has been declared International Orangutan
Awareness Week by the Orangutan Foundation International.

This is the first of what is hoped to become an annual event. It is being
held to highlight the problems that the orangutan faces in its native Borneo
and Sumatra, and to recognize the anniversary of Dr. Birute Galdikas first
trip into the rainforest.

I recently spoke with Cat Simrel Ishikawa, who is secretary of the Orangutan
Foundation (Canada) and is also the Canadian coordinator for the Great Ape
Project. The full interview aired today.

Ishikawa notes the greatest threats to the once-widespread orangutan are
logging activities by international logging companies and animal traders. An
estimated six to eight young orangutans die for every one taken into
captivity, and the population has diminished by an estimated 50 per cent in
recent years as a result of these twin threats.

He also points out that although originally one of the three "Leaky's
Angels", chosen by Louis Leakey, to date Birute Galdikas has not had the
same public recognition as her two compatriates - Dianne Fossey and Jane
Goodall.

 Despite Dr. Galdikas still teaching at Simon Fraser University, near
Vancouver, she has received little acknowledgement locally for her work.
Ishikawa hopes this will change in the near future - Galdikas' autobiography
was published last year, and a biographical film is due to be made next year.

November 6, 1996 marks the 25th anniversary of Birute Galdikas' first trip
to Indonesia.

-David








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Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 20:19:05 -0800 (PST)
>From: David J Knowles <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Alert as new brain disease hits beef herds in Britain[UK]
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>From The Electronic Telegraph - Tuesday, November 5th, 1996


Alert as new brain disease hits beef herds in Britain
By David Brown, Agriculture Editor

                                                 GOVERNMENT vets are baffled
by another fatal brain disease of cattle which has been discovered by
scientists fighting the BSE epidemic.

                                                More than 100 British cattle
are known to have died so far from the mystery illness, which has no known
cure. The only other single case was reported in Switzerland. The disease,
known as
idiopathic brainstem neuronal chromatolysis, was found in 1989 - three years
after BSE was first identified - when scientists examined the brains of
cattle culled mistakenly as victims of BSE. Many showed clinical symptoms
almost identical to those of mad cow disease. Most of the victims were in
Scottish herds but at least five cattle in England have also succumbed - and
there may be more.

                                                The most worrying aspect for
farmers is that, unlike BSE, the second disease has mainly targeted beef
herds rather than dairy cows. BSE has claimed most of its victims between
two and 12 years   old; IBNC has mainly hit beef animals between six and 12
years old.

                                                The Ministry of Agriculture
has appealed to vets to report any new cases, but the ministry said
yesterday: "This is purely a veterinary problem. There are no implications
for human health."

                                                A spokesman said that while
BSE had so far claimed more than 164,000 cattle in Britain, the second
illness had hit very few. Only between eight and 27 cases a year are
reported. Since all cattle more than 30 months old are destroyed routinely
under the Government's emergency measures to restore confidence in beef, the
ministry says that consumers do not have even a remote chance of eating beef
from the older cattle.

-David


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Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 20:19:08 -0800 (PST)
>From: David J Knowles <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Drug firm prefers to do tests on humans[UK]
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>From the Electronic Telegraph - Tuesday, November 5th, 1996

Drug firm prefers to do tests on humans
By Roger Highfield, Science Editor


                                                 A DRUG evaluation company
is to reduce animal testing by using humans in trials of drugs to treat
anxiety, depression, addiction and a range of other psychiatric disorders.

                                                Neuraxis claims to be the
only company in the world that has the ability to test the effectiveness of
neurological drugs using healthy human volunteers before subjecting the
substances to clinical trials, which can cost millions.

                                                The company bases its
expertise on a decade of work on volunteers by Prof Bill Deakin of
Manchester University, who is now a non-executive director of Neuraxis.

                                                "We aim to help select or
reject drugs for very expensive clinical trials," he said. "That is
critically important now because there are so many compounds under
development, not just for anxiety but schizophrenia, depression and drug
abuse."

                                                Prof Deakin said that it was
difficult to do away with all animal studies in efforts to unravel basic
drug biochemistry, but using humans provided more immediately applicable data.

                                                To test drugs that can allay
anxiety, for example, Prof Deakin first used research which showed that when
a healthy individual is anxious, the same parts of the brain are involved as
in morbid states of anxiety.

                                                He then developed a
reproducible laboratory method to make volunteers anxious. Volunteers are
given a dummy or real drug and are then told they have two minutes to
prepare a speech to teams of psychologists. "It is guaranteed to induce
anxiety," he said.

                                                Panic attacks can be created
by triggering the brain's "suffocation alarm" by giving the volunteers air
containing high levels of carbon dioxide. Again, the panic reaction is
measured after taking a dummy or the drug of interest.

                                                In the case of
schizophrenia, the search is on for drugs to deal with lack of motivation
and self-neglect by activating part of the brain called the frontal cortex.
Prof Deakin found that probing the frontal cortex in the normal volunteers
provided the best information possible to predict a drug's effectiveness.

                                                Volunteers can earn
"hundreds of pounds" depending on whether they have to stay overnight for
observation, he said.

-David


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Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 20:40:19 -0800 (PST)
>From: [e-mail] (Merritt Clifton,  editor,  ANIMAL PEOPLE)
To: [e-mail]
Cc: [e-mail]
Subject: FoA goes to IRS re March money
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>"Not to change the subject but could you please tell me what happened
>finally with the Peter Gerard/Washington D.C. thing?
Thanks
Truddi Lawler<"

     It will probably be a few years before we know what happened finally,
as the IRS moves glacially slowly and is presently in the process of
drafting new regulations governing nonprofit accountability,  as authorized
by the 104th Congress,  which would apply to just this sort of situation.
    Meanwhile,   below is the latest information we're aware of.
--Merritt Clifton,  editor,  ANIMAL PEOPLE.

--------------------------------------------

FoA goes to the IRS seeking World Week missing money
(From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  10/96.)

        WASHINGTON D.C.--Dissatisfied with World Animal Awareness Week
organizer Peter Gerard's September 3 statement of income and receipts,
Friends of Animals is pursuing legal action to force more complete
disclosure.
        At deadline several other World Week sponsors indicated that they
might join the FoA initative if Gerard failed to promptly provide a
specific list of donors and the amounts they gave,  along with an itemized
list of expenditures.
        Wrote FoA counsel Herman Kaufman to Gerard on September 4,
"Friends of Animals Inc.,  cognizant of your failure and refusal to respond
to the organizations' requests for a true accounting of the revenues and
expenses generated in connection with World Animal Awareness Week and the
March for Animals,  has directed me to request an audit and examination of
your books by the Internal Revenue Service."
        The World Week program thanked donors for cash gifts of at least
$754,925,  under seven different headings,  each representing a specific
level of giving.  The amounts purportedly given at each level were stated
in the literature that Gerard's organization,  the National Alliance for
Animals,  used to solicit donations.
        However,  Gerard's September 3 statement,  issued after Gerard
reportedly received repeated requests for a complete accounting from at
least four institutional sponsors,  listed cash contributions under only
four headings,  totalling just $376,157.   Only one heading,  the Honor
Roll,  appeared on both lists.
        The $33,557 for which Gerard thanked Honor Roll donors was
plausibly close to the amount indicated by the World Week program.  But
from other donor categories,  Gerard on September 3 claimed to have
received just $342,600,  $382,400 less than the $725,000 received according
to the program acknowledgements.
        Gerard in a July 15 letter to Kaufman attributed the difference to
receipt of donated goods and services from some sponsors in lieu of cash.
However,  Gerard's September 3 statement made no reference to either the
receipt or the value of in-kind contributions.
        Gerard's September 3 statement claimed ticket sales revenue of
$205,419,  only slightly less than the $213,600 that attendence estimates
indicated.  Together with the donations,  this should have given World Week
resources,  whether received as cash or in kind,  of upward of $950,000.
        Although World Week drew only 3,000 participants,  according to the
National Park Service crowd count at the biggest event,  the June 23 March,
well below the 100,000 participants that promotional literature promised,
ticket sales alone should have almost covered the costs,  which Gerard at
the Summit for the Animals in April estimated at $218,000,  plus
unspecified amounts for advertising that the September 3 statement
indicated as $13,320.
        The September 3 statement,  however,  alleged World Week cash
expenses came to $674,339,  more than triple the April estimate.  Gerard
reported $79,240 as WAAW "Gala Expense,"  $55,097 as "March Expense,"  and
$136,377 as "World Congress Expense,"  offering no further breakdown.  The
Gala,  the March,  and the World Congress were the major events of World
Animal Awareness Week,  but Gerard said the sum of their declared cost,
$271,714,  was less than half of the total World Week outlay.
        A comparision of the further expenses Gerard claimed on September 3
with the estimates he gave the Summit in April revealed more unexplained
discrepancies:
                            April                 Sept. 3

Payroll                 $  69,000               $ 160,641
Contracted services     $  83,000               $  21,595
Printed materials       $  18,400               $  43,729
Office expense          $  17,400               $  38,995
Telephone               $   3,600               $  12,864
Postage,  shipping      $   7,200               $  61,102

        Offsetting the $62,000 overestimate of expenditures for contracted
services were  unexplained expenditures in excess of estimates amounting to
approximately $207,000
        Gerard informed the Summit for the Animals that "computers,  fax,
copier,  typewriters,  printers,  laptops,  phones,  and general office
equipment" would be donated by the National Alliance for Animals,  which he
heads.  However,  his September 3 statement charged $1,354.27 to World Week
budget for use of unspecified office equipment.
        Alan Berger,  executive director of the Animal Protection
Institute,  wrote to Gerard on July 15,  three weeks after FoA's initial
demand,  also seeking "a complete accounting of the revenues and expenses,"
along with explanations "for the small turnout,  lack of celebrities, "
and other disappointing aspects of World Week.  "Besides our sponsorship
amount,"  Berger said,  "we spent another $12,000 on travel,  products,
printed materials,  and advertising,  in addition to our hours of staff
time.  I'm sure,"  he concluded,  "that many other sponsors have similar
questions and concerns."
        Claimed Gerard in a nine-page July 23 response,  "I have in fact
received no other letters or phone calls from sponsors which might be
viewed as critical of the event."
        As to the API expenditures,  Gerard said,  "That was your decision
and not mine."



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