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Subject:  Russia Space Monkeys Back Home
Date:   Tue, Jan 7, 19971996 8:32 AM EDT

.c The Associated Press

      MOSCOW (AP) -- A pair of macaque monkeys returned safely to Earth
Tuesday after two weeks in space, and Russian scientists will now
study how the weightless environment affected the animals.
      Lapik and Multik touched down this morning in their Bion-11
spacecraft in the Central Asian nation of Kazakstan, where Russia
maintains space facilities built during the Soviet era, the
Interfax news agency reported.
      The two male monkeys were immediately given a checkup at a
mobile medical laboratory and were to be flown to Moscow later for
extended examinations that could last two months, Interfax said.
      The pair completed all their tasks during the mission and
scientists now want to see how they re-adapt to gravity. The
monkeys will be studied at the Biomedical Institute in Moscow as
part of a project that also includes U.S. and French scientists.
      Animal rights activists, including French actress Brigitte
Bardot, protested the flight and called for an end to U.S. funding
of the Bion project.
      They argued that the monkeys suffered from an array of
monitoring devices that pierced their bodies. The activists also
questioned the need for animal research after so many years of
human space flight.
      The monkeys were sent into orbit Dec. 24 wearing space suits
attached to chairs. They worked several hours a day, performing
various mental and physical tasks in which they responded to
signals by pressing pedals.
      The monkeys traveled with an assortment of newts, snails, flies,
bugs, seeds and bacteria.
      After scientists finish testing the monkeys, they will retire to
a zoo or research institute.

      AP-NY-01-07-97 0730EST

Copyright 1997 The Associated Press.

Lawrence Carter-Long
Campaign Manager
Sangre de Cristo Animal Protection, Inc.
P.O. Box 11395
Albuquerque, NM 87192-0395
Email: [e-mail]
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Date: Mon, 06 Jan 97 18:33:07 PST
>From: Tracy Rackauskas <[e-mail]>
To: ar-news <[e-mail]>
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Happy new year!
I am looking for catalogs which sell high quality non-leather shoes and
accessories (purses, belts, etc.).
Please email me with the names/addresses/phone numbers of the
catalogs.
Thanks,
Tracy

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Date: Mon, 06 Jan 97 18:59:03 PST
>From: Tracy Rackauskas <[e-mail]>
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Hi.  Would anyone having information re:  ar-groups for lawyers
please email me with names and numbers of the organizations?
Thanks again!
Tracy

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Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 19:02:26 -0500
>From: allen schubert <[e-mail]>
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Subject: (US) 39 Yellowstone bison sent for slaughter
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from CNN web page:
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                    39 Yellowstone bison sent for slaughter

                    January 7, 1997
                    Web posted at: 4:30 p.m. EST

                    YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Montana (Reuters) --
                    Thirty-nine bison were rounded up for slaughter
                    Monday on the northern boundary of Yellowstone
                    National Park under a controversial new bison
                    management plan, the park said.

                    The plan called for the capture of all bison along
                    the park's northern border moving toward adjacent
                    private cattle-grazing land. The captured animals
                    are sent to slaughterhouses under the plan, being
                    implemented by the National Park Service.

                    Four of the shaggy giants were caught in the
                    initial capture last Saturday. The bison were
                    herded into pens, loaded onto trailers and taken
                    to Montana slaughterhouses.

                    On Monday two bull bison escaped the capture pens.
                    An elderly cow bison, either injured during
                    capture or in poor health, was shot in the pen.

                    Yellowstone has the largest remaining
                    free-ranging bison herd in the United
                    States, the last vestige of the herds of tens of
                    millions of animals that once roamed the West.

                    The park's herd has grown steadily in recent years
                    to 3,500 animals.

                    Some of the bison carry brucellosis and that
                    disease is at the base of the dispute. The Montana
                    state government fears the bison will spread the
                    disease to cattle after ranchers spent millions of
                    dollars eliminating it from their herds.

                    Brucellosis causes cattle to abort their calves
                    and can sicken humans if left uncontrolled.

                    Environmentalists and animal rights activists say
                    there has never been a documented case of wild
                    bison transmitting the disease to cattle and that
                    the bison deaths are unnecessary.

                     Deep winter snows drive the bison from
                               the park in search of food. In past
                    years, hunters and game wardens have killed the
                    bison after they left the park. But this year, as
                    partial settlement of a suit filed against the
                    federal government by Montana Gov. Marc Racicot,
                    Yellowstone officials have agreed to capture bison
                    that approach private land on the park's northern
                    border whether they have brucellosis or not.

                    "It's a sad day when it's come to this,"
                    environmentalist Mike Clark said as he braved
                    bitter cold to watch the capture. Clark is leader
                    of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, one of a
                    handful of environmental groups that are in
                    federal court trying, unsuccessfully so far, to
                    halt the roundup.

                    Park rangers are working hard on the roundup,
                    which has resulted in some injuries to the bison
                    as they panic and hook each other with their
                    horns, but they say they have little relish for
                    it. "It's not what we thought we'd be doing when
                    we signed on to be park rangers," one ranger said.


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Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 19:05:35 -0500
>From: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Ethics of Wildlife Film Making
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Dear all,

I am currently researching the ethics of wildlife film making for an article
that I am writing for BBC Wildlife and would be very interested in receiving
information and/or comment from the subscribers on this list.  Areas which I
am particularly interested in are examples of good/bad practice and the
rights of the viewer to know how the programme was made etc.

Many thanks

Jonathan Owen

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Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 19:32:35 -0500
>From: allen schubert <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: (DE) German Zoo Animals Feel Winter
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from AP Wire page:
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01/07/1997 04:29 EST

 German Zoo Animals Feel Winter


 FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- Funny things happen at the zoo when the
 mercury drops: foxes dine well, elephants double as sled dogs and tigers
 are put under heavy security.

 Berlin's Tiergarten zoo, which covers several city blocks and is dotted with
 ponds, trees and shrubs, has always had trouble with foxes sneaking in to
 grab ducks, veterinarian Andreas Ochs said.

 However, in the past two weeks, as temperatures have dropped to as low
 as minus 4, the foxes have been blamed for grabbing a cormorant, two
 penguins, a crane and a white stork, among other birds, assistant director
 Wolfgang Grummt said.

 In Krefeld, where the zoo is smaller but similarly snow-covered, city
officials
 were inviting children for a sled ride Wednesday with ``Rhena,'' an elephant
 cow, providing the horse power.

 And in Frankfurt, Sumatra tigers have been restricted to their cages
 because the moat around their compound is frozen and keepers fear they
 could scamper across the ice to freedom, curator Stefan Stadler said.

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Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 20:06:11 -0500 (EST)
>From: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Two St. Petersburg FL Activists Arrested at Circus
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

The following news article is from the January 6, 1997 issue of the St.
Petersburg Times.

Animal Rights Protest At Circus Gets 2 Caged
By LEANORA MINAI
Times Staff Writer

ST. PETERSBURG -- Their cue came when an announcer bellowed that the circus
would be starting in five minutes.

Ronnie Wright and Dennis Stryjewski stood and unfurled a banner that read,
"Abolish Animal Slavery."

"We started chanting, 'Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho! Animal acts have got to go!'" said
Ronnie Wright, 44, a computer consultant from Largo.

Within a minute, the animal activists were flanked by two employees of
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.  A struggle ensued on a balcony
overlooking the ring inside St. Petersburg's Bayfront Center.

"As were having a tug of war over the banner," Wright said. "Police came up
and told us we were under arrest.

Wright and Stryjewski were charged Sunday with disorderly conduct, a
misdemeanor.  They were released from the Pinellas County Jail after
Stryjewski's wife, Louise Kahle, posted $200 bail for them.

Kahle, a talent agent, is the St. Petersburg representative of People for the
Ethical Treatment of Animals, a Washington-based agency that operates under
the principle that "animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on or use
for entertainment."

Though police say Wright and Stryjewski disturbed the peace and quiet of the
audience, the two plan to hire attorneys and fight the charge in court.

"I had no choice but to go with the officers," said Stryjewski, 33, an
insurance agent and financial adviser who lives in St. Petersburg.  "I was in
the back of a car, handcuffed.  My freedom was taken away, and that's what
these animals go through every single day."

Organizers at the Bayfront Center, were the circus is performing, said
protests are not permitted inside the complex.

"The circus obviously doesn't want this to happen, so we're trying to enforce
this on their behalf," said Mike Dichiara, Bayfront's event coordinator.

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I would like to point out a few things about this incident that are not
covered in this article.

On December 27, 1996, two animal activist from PETA went in to the Florida
State Fairgrounds in Tampa Florida and unfurled a banner that read, "Abolish
Animal Slavery" during the first show of the Ringling Bros and Barnum &
Bailey Circus.  Within five minutes they were escorted out by police.  Other
activists passed out brochures outside before the show started.

On January 2, 1997, the Circus moved on to the Bayfornt Center located in St.
Petersburg Florida.

Florida Voices for Animals held a peaceful demonstration outside of the
Bayfront Center the day prior to my arrest for disorderly conduct.  During
this demonstration we had some of our members at several locations handing
out brochures about animals in entertainment.  At one location a member of
our board of directors, Marilyn Weaver, was approached by a police officer
who told her if she did not stop handing out the brochures he was going to
arrest her.  At the time she was standing on a sidewalk that is public
property.  She refused to stop.  Again the officer came by and told her to
stop handing out the brochures or he was going to arrest her.  Again she
refused to stop and was not arrested.  At another location, also on public
property, employees from the Bayfront Center positioned themselves infront of
our members who were passing out the brochures and were telling people not to
take our brochures.

After the FVA demonstration and during the following show, two local
activists went into the Bayfront Center and walked into one of the rings and
unfurled a banner that read, "Abolish Animal Slavery."  The show had to stop
and the house lights were turned back on.  Both activists were escorted out
of the Bayfront Center by police and told that if they returned they would be
arrested for trespassing.  These two activists had been caught trying to
enter the Center with the banner during the FVA demonstration and had gone
home and changed cloths and returned for the next show.

The following day, Dennis Stryjewski and myself purchased tickets and entered
the Bayfront Center.  Dennis had the banner folded up in a blanket stuffed
into a backpack.  The women who took his ticket kept turning around and
looking at the backpack that Dennis was wearing.  I started asking questions
about how to find my seat and people were starting to line up behind me so
she did not check the backpack.

The seating inside the Bayfront Center is shaped like a horseshoe.  We took
up a position at the base of the horseshoe on the upper floor balcony.  We
waited while clowns and acrobats gave demonstrations in all three rings.
 During these demonstrations the audience is allowed to stand around the
rings to get a close look.  A few minutes after we were in position an
announcer said "the show will be starting in five minutes would you please
return to your seats."  There was so much noise being made by everyone
returning to there seats and talking  that I was concerned that nobody would
be able to hear us chanting.  We knew that once everyone was seated that the
house lights would be turned off so we jumped up and unfurled our banner and
started to chant.  Once we started chanting the whole audience stoped talking
and was watching us.  After about two minutes, seemed like ten, someone ran
up below us and grabed the bottom of our banner and tried to pull it out of
our hands.  Within moments he was joined by two others.  These people never
identified themselves to us and we were determined to keep them from stealing
our banner.  After only a few moments we were grabed by police who handcuffed
us and told us we were under arrest.   We later found out that the people who
had tried to steal our banner were employees of the Bayfront Center.

After we were taken to one of the offices, one of the arresting officers told
us that he told one of the activists outside, who was handing out brochures,
that if anyone tried to open a banner inside that they were going to go to
jail.  Listining to the two officers talk I was able to determine that the
officer who made that comment was not even supposed to be inside the Center.
 He was assigned outside duty.  I think he came in just so he could arrest
us.  Also, I have not had a chance to check yet but I think he may have used
another officers name on the police report as the arresting officer because
he was supposed to be outside at the time.

While the police were filling out forms an employee of the Bayfront Center
was standing there with our banner folded up in her arms.  When we were being
led out to a waiting police car I asked the officer with me if we could get
our banner back.  He said, "what banner.  I did not see a banner.  It must
have been thrown in the trash."  Dennis also asked the officer with him the
same question and was told that the banner was evidence.  When we walked
outside an employee from the Bayfornt Center came out behind us and asked if
the police wanted the banner.  One of the officers said they would pick it up
later. We never received a receipt for the banner and have not yet had the
chance to check on it.

The police said that we disturbed the peace and quiet of the audience at a
time when the Center was a madhouse.  Things did not quiet down until we
started chanting.  And we did not disrupt the show.  It is obvious to me that
our arrest was just to silence our opposition to the use of animals in the
circus.  I wonder if I went to a football game and booed the visiting team
and held up a banner would they arrest me?  I don't think so.

I'm not sure yet but I think that these police officers were off duty
officers working as security for the Bayfront Center.  One of the arresting
officers was wearing a county uniform and the other was wearing a City of St.
Pete uniform.  We were taken to the county jail but were told that the City
of St. Pete Police was taking credit for the arrest.

We did get some good news coverage.  In addition to the newspaper article I
was interviewed on Ch 10 news and was on NPR news radio.

I think that Dennis and I are both going to fight this charge and plead Not
Guilty.

Any suggestions or comments are welcome.

Ronnie J. Wright
Member, Board of Directors

Florida Voices for Animals
P.O. Box 992
Largo, FL 33779
813-586-7083

E-Mail: [e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 20:50:32 -0500 (EST)
>From: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Newt's back.
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't Newt done a couple of fairly decent
things where animals are concerned?  If so, shouldn't we phone, write, fax
and email him congratulations on his re-election to the speakership?  Don't
you think he'd appreciate our support right now, when a majority of Americans
are saying he shouldn't be back in that position?  Might he not remember our
loyalty when it comes time to bring an animal rights/welfare bill to the
floor of the House of Representatives for a vote--an event over which he, as
speaker, has control?

Think on it please, folks.  No matter what your politics or your opinion of
Gingrich--if he is favorably disposed to us he can wield tremendous power to
help animals.

Come to think of it, I may include a letter to Gingrich in the February
Letters for Animals packet.  If you're interested, email me.

Best,
Lynn Manheim
Letters for Animals
P.O. Box 7-AO
La Plume, PA  18440
717-945-5312
Fax: -3471

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Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 22:56:10 -0500
>From: allen schubert <[e-mail]>
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It's been a while since this message was posted...but, it's something that
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and no one will be in doubt of where you stand."
  -- Howard F. Lyman
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Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 22:58:05 -0500
>From: allen schubert <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Admin Note--"Welcome Letter"
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Just to update everyone (this being a new year) with the "welcome letter"
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