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05/09/1997 23:56 EST

 Black Bear Captured Outside of NYC

 WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) -- A black bear with a taste for Italian food
wandered
 through the suburbs of New York City for nearly a week before being
captured at a
 country club golf course on Friday.

 The young bear had been spotted five times since Sunday. On Tuesday it was
seen
 taking food out of a trash bin outside the Venetian Delight on Central
Avenue in
 Yonkers, just five miles from the Big Apple.

 State Department of Environmental Conservation biologists Richard Henry and
 David Cree were holding a news conference on the bear Friday when word
arrived
 that it had been spotted again, this time in White Plains. They took off
in hot pursuit.

 ``It must have seemed like a Keystone comedy to some people,'' Henry said
about
 the bear chase and media frenzy. ``An entourage of reporters followed us.''

 They caught up with the bear at the Ridgeway Country Club in White Plains,
where
 they knocked it out with a tranquilizing dart.

 The bear, estimated to be 1 to 2 1/2 years old, was to be taken upstate to
a park in
 the Catskills on Saturday and released.

 New York state is home to an estimated 4,000 to 5,000 bears, and officials
say they
 may wander nearly 100 miles in search of a mate or new territory.

 But Henry said this was the first time in 25 years that he'd heard of a
bear being
 caught in Westchester County, a heavily populated suburban area just north
of New
 York City.
Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 22:21:17 -0700
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U.S. Decision to Give Drug to Gulf Force Is Criticized

          By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
          New York Times Interactive Edition

WASHINGTON -- An influential member of Congress on Thursday criticized
the Food and Drug Administration for its decision in 1990 to permit the
Pentagon to force soldiers serving in the Persian Gulf war to take an
experimental drug.

The drug, pyridostigmine bromide, has since been cited in some
studies as a possible cause of the unexplained illnesses known
collectively as Persian Gulf war syndrome. The Defense
Department, acting with the food and drug agency's permission,
gave the drug to more than 400,000 troops without obtaining
their consent or telling them about potential risks.

The government dispensed the drug to protect the troops against
possible nerve gas attacks.

"It was feasible to inform them, and that's the least they could
do," said Rep. Christopher Shays, R-Conn., of the government
Reform and Oversight Committee, at a committee hearing
Thursday on the federal government's approach to biomedical
ethics in research involving human. "I have no sympathy
whatever that they could not inform the soldiers."

But FDA Deputy Commissioner Mary K. Pendergast said the
incident was the first time that officials had suspended their usual
requirement of informed consent.

"This was war," Ms. Pendergast testified. "This was the first time,
and it didn't work out particularly well."

She acknowledged that the military did not do an adequate job
of telling troops of the possible risks.

In the years after the gulf war, thousands of veterans have
reported a wide variety of mysterious symptoms, including
headaches, fatigue, shortened attention spans, aches and rashes.
The veterans ascribe at least some of the symptoms to chemicals
they say they were exposed to in the Persian gulf -- a contention
that the government disputes.

Some researchers have theorized that the anti-nerve gas agent,
acting in combination with pesticides or other chemicals to which
the veterans may have been exposed could have caused the
symptoms. A study last year, led by researchers at Duke
University, found similar symptoms in chickens that were
simultaneously exposed to pesticides and pyridostigmine
bromide, the anti-nerve gas agent the troops were given.

In granting the waiver of the informed-consent rule, Ms.
Pendergast said, her agency gave "considerable deference" to
the Defense Department, which had argued that it would be
impossible to obtain such consent under battlefield conditions.

But Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, a committee member,
asserted that the Pentagon had known for years that nerve gas
might be used against troops in combat.

"People should have been informed from the moment they set
foot in the desert that this drug was not licensed and that it had
 side effects," Kucinich said.

The hearing, which lasted more than five hours, was intended to
explore whether there had been lapses in protecting the rights of
participants in medical experiments -- like children, the mentally
ill and HIV-infected pregnant women in Thailand and Africa,
who are being monitored by the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.

Instead, the military's use of pyridostigmine bromide took center
stage as Shays, a major figure in the investigation of the treatment
of Persian Gulf War veterans, angrily questioned Ms. Pendergast.

"The anemic response of the FDA," he said, "tells me that the
military knows they can be comfortable to do it again."

Pyridostigmine bromide has been approved since the 1950s for
patients with myasthenia gravis, a disorder that affects the
connections between muscles and nerves. Patients with the
disorder can take the medication in doses 20 times higher than
those used during the gulf war. But because the drug has never
been tested on people exposed to nerve gas -- it would be
unethical to do so -- it was considered experimental when used
by the troops. So government regulations required that informed
consent be obtained.

At one point, when Ms. Pendergast insisted that the Army had
not technically violated an agreement it signed with the FDA
governing the waiver, Shays said, "Ms. Pendergast, this is
painful." Later, he warned, "We are going to pursue this."

Ms. Pendergast acknowledged that officials at her agency were
disappointed with the military's conduct, "and we let the Defense
Department know that." She said that in light of its experience
during the Persian Gulf war, the agency was not likely to suspend
the informed consent requirement again.

========================================================

This article shows that the military brass and the vivisectors working
for them have no more compunction about ruining the health of
unsuspecting young men and women than they have for the suffering
inflicted on defenseless animals.

So FDA officals were "disappointed with military conduct... and let the
Defense Department know that..."

Imagine how those responsible for such atrocities are shaking in their
boots hearing this statement!

Andy
Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 22:38:33 -0700
>From: Andrew Gach <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: FWD: Forest Defenders Shut Down Logging
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/* ---------- "SPHYNX SALE SHUTDOWN!" ---------- */

Thursday, May 8, 1997

  Observers in Detroit, Oregon report that forest defenders operating
from the base camp outside of town have succeded in completely shutting
down logging operations at the Sphynx sale.  The action, which protects
the watershed of the city of Salem, Oregon and the ecosystem which
comprises the watershed, was carried out by approximately twenty forest
defenders.
     More details are expected soon from CFD and EF!  Thanks to them and
the individual activists for their great work!

It was the year...

  of fire                of rebirth            of a new age
  of destruction         of great sadness      of the end of history
  we took back           of pain               everything changed
    what was ours        of joy
                                            (J. Michael Straczynki)
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Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 23:31:44 -0700
>From: [e-mail] (Elephant Advocates)
To: [e-mail]
Subject: TB infected elephants in California
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Regarding Annie, the 29 year old Asian elephant that died at the Los
Angeles Zoo on March 22:

It is confirmed, the lab results are in, the culture was alive, she had
active tuberculosis.  She died of tuberculosis.  The Zoo press release
states she died of Salmonella only.

I have the lab results confirming the positive TB diagnosis. If anyone
would like it, request by private email.

Recap:

Annie died of TB on March 22 at the Los Angeles Zoo.
Calle, a former LA Zoo elephant, shipped to San Francisco Zoo two months
ago, has tested positive for TB.

Both of these elephants are from:
Gary & Kari Johnson
DBA: Have Trunk Will Travel
27575 Highway 74
Perris, CA 92370
Wk: [phone]
Fx: [phone]

They rent elephants for TV movies, elephant rides and exhibits.  Recently
Gary rented an elephant to the San Diego Museum of Natural History (the
dead Zoo) every weekend for 2 months.

On June 6 & 7, Gary is scheduled to rent an elephant for rides in circus at
Citrus College.

Dr. Zellers, President
Citrus College
1000 West Foothill Blvd.
Glendora, CA 91741
Wk: [phone]
Fx: [phone]

A Christian youth organization called KARE is renting the grounds from the
college to hold their circus, which includes the elephant ride from Gary
Johnson.  John Martin has been friends with Gary Johnson for 20 years.

Randall Johnson & John Martin

KARE

PO Box 662080
Arcadia, CA  91006-2080
[phone]
[phone] fax

CITY OF GLENDORA

City Clerk: Joann [phone]
Fax for all:  [phone]

Mayor Sue Bauer [phone] (B)
Mayot Pro-Tem Marsahll Mouw [phone] (R)
Councilman Larry Glinn [phone] (B)
Councilwoman Christine Degrassi   [phone] (R)
Councilman Al Fishman  [phone] (R)

R=residence
B=business

PLEASE CALL/FAX CITRUS COLLEGE AND GLENDORA CITY COUNCIL regarding the
June
6 & 7 elephant ride at Citrus College sponsered by KARE.

TELL THEM: CANCEL ALL ANIMAL ACTS FROM GARY JOHNSON.  Gary Johnson's herd
has been exposed to TB.  One of his former elephants named Annie died of TB
on 3/22 while living at the LA Zoo.  Calle, also Gary's former elephant,
now living at the San Francisco Zoo, has tested positive for TB.  TB, the
wasting disease, is contagious by coughing and sneezing.  Elephants cough
and sneeze.

According to C. Patrick Ryan, DVM, MPH, Chief Veterinarian, LA County Dept.
of Health, [TB infected] "circus animals...can present a risk to people and
other animals."

Also write the zoo and tell Mr. Mollinedo you are aware that Annie died of
TB, that Calle has TB, and Tara who lost 860 lbs. in 6 wks. probably has
TB.

Manuel Mollinedo, Director
Los Angeles Zoo
5333 Zoo Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90027
Wk: [phone]
Fx: [phone]

For the elephants,
Debbie Famiglietti
ELEPHANT ADVOCATES
Los Angeles









Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 11:11:32 -0400
>From: "H. Morris" <[e-mail]> (by way of allen schubert <[e-mail]>)
To: [e-mail]
Subject: (US) Animal Rights mtg in NYC
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Friends of Animals is having their meeting on the 13th (tues) at Source of
Life--22 west 34th Street between 5th and 6th avenue.

find out how the woodchuck hunt protest in fort plains went, and upcoming
events.


Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 12:54:35 -0400
>From: allen schubert <[e-mail]>
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Routine posting......

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Also...here are some websites with info on internet resources for Veg and
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The Global Directory (IVU)
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World Guide to Vegetarianism--Internet
http://www.veg.org/veg/Guide/Internet/index.html
Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 13:17:25 -0400
>From: allen schubert <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Student Activst Training in NYC!!!!!
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                                                            ***  STUDENT
ABOLITIONIST LEAGUE ***
                                                              ***STUDENT
ACTIVIST TRAINING***
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WE FINALLY HAVE A DATE SET!!!!

After a year of work Student Abolitionist League's first Student Activist
Training is finally taking place!

The date, after much shuffling, has been set for May 31 and June 1st
Saturday and Sunday.

Saturday: Indoors at the Wetlands Preserve at 161 Hudson Street and Laight,
3 blocks South of Canal in downtown Manhattan, NYC.  9:30 AM-5PM, folowed
by  a demonstration

If there is interest, we will do an intensive civil disobedience/direct
action/security nonviolence training Saturday after the training hours at a
location to be announced (this is not included in the workshop list below)

Sunday: 9:30 AM-?, Washington Square Park, Manhattan, followed by a
demonstration and possible CD (not that we would plant to be arrested of
course ;-))
The second day will be held at Washington Square Park in downtown
Manhattan.  There will be 1-2 demonstrations held every day, one at or
after lunch, and one at the end of the day.  Demonstration locations have
not yet been decided but will probably include the Chinatown Fish Markets,
Canal Street McDonald's, NYU (as part of the LEMSIP chimp liberation
campaign), and Zamir Furs.


NOTE: We have not yet contacted speakers to inform them of the new date. If
you are a speaker, PLEASE
let us know if this date works for you.


Admission is free, but a donation will be appreciated.  If we are forced to
rent a space if rain is predicted the second say we will have to take up a
collection to pay for it.   Preregistration will not be reqiuired , but
will be GREATLY appreciated, so that we can gauge how many people to
expect.  To preregister, please email me at [e-mail] or call
[phone].   RSVP ASAP, OK?
While the training is being organized by animal rights activists we wecome
people interested in taking action on the wide range of socil issues, and
especially encourage environmental activists to attend.

All Participants wil be given an Organizer's Kit with instruction materials
on the nuts and bolts of organzing, as well as an Activst Starter Kit,
including important literature on a wide range of animal rights issues.
Feel free to bring your group's literature to distribute.  We will be
actually tabling during a tabling workshop in Washington Square Park on the
2nd day.  We wil try to find or provide tables to the best of our ability,
or just set up literature on the ground on blankets



We still need additional speakers on Using Computers for Animal Rights,
Getting Vegan Lunches Into Schools, Fundraising for Student Activist
Groups, and Civil Disobedience and Direct Action.


If at all possible, PLEASE use public transportation, walk, or biketo the
training.  Student Abolitionist League has a strong organizational
anti-car policy, adopted in May of 1996, owing to the destructive impact
cars have on habitats through oil spills , air pollution,  increasing
global warming via the emmission of greenhouse gasses, encouraging road
construction, drilling in pristine habitats, encouraging the militarization
of the Persian Gulf and the ensuing violence and environmetal destruction,
and supporting and empowering dictatorial, violent regimes backed by oil
conglomerates.     The petroleum indistry also kills countless birds who
are caught in the smokesatacks of its refineries.  Perhaps the greatest
death toll comes from the millions upon miilions of insects who are
splattered by car grills and windsheilds, along with hundreds of thousands
of other animals who are run over, and the millions of worms crushed by
cars after every rainstorm.   While buses and trains are not a perfect
solution, when we ride them, we at least keep one more vehicle off the
road, even if we are partially funding the operation of a more efficient
form of the same thing.



Workshops are as follows:

The Philosophy of Animal Rights-Anne and Ben Crimaudo , Pete Muller Learn
the important differences between animal welfare and animal RIGHTS.  Come
to recognize the fundamental bigotry that is speciesism, and understand to
argument for the moral equality of all sentient beings.  Anne and Ben will
argue that the abolition of the property status of sentient beings is the
only just response to their oppression

>From Random Demonstrations To Strategic Campaigns-Anne And Ben Crimaudo

Panel: Organizing Effective Demonstrations and Rallies -  Anne and Ben
Crimaudo, Pete and Anne Muller

Working with The Media- Peter and Anne Muller  Anne and Pete managed to
make the slaughter of several hundred Canada geese into the biggest issue
in their county through effective use of the media.  Learn how to get your
message out through the media without filtration or distortion, and how to
draw large amounts of attention to your issue.

Dealing With the Devil: Working Within the System for Animals- Felicia
Holden, formerly with Bloomington Animal Defense League at Indiana
University, where she was instrumental in working for the creation of an
"Alternatives Committee" to prevent animal experiments by proving in
individual cases that alternatives are available. To do this she and other
ADL activists had to learn to cordially sit across tables from animal
mutilators and to suppress their rage.  Learn how they we able to do this
and what they accomplished by combining confrontational demonstration, with
less confrontational negotiations.

Collective Structure -In collectives,  everyone has a role in the
organization's work and everyone is equally involved in decision making.
Because of the extremely high turnover rate in student animal rights groups
, collective structure can greatly help improve the stability of student
groups.  Oliver Haydon and Melissa Jameson of The Root and Branch
Collective will discuss how they set up and maintain their collective and
how you can do the same.

Discussion: Violence vs. Nonviolence  (this may be a lecture open to
commentary or a debate.  The details are still being worked out. If a more
structure approach is used, speakers will include Oliver and Melissa, Stu
Chaifetz, Felicia Holden.   Anyone who wants to argue the case against
nonviolence should contact me, so we can add you.)

Civil Disobedience and Direct Action-Dari Fullmer, more panelists needed!
Planning CDs.  The philosophies of  aboveground CD  and underground Direct
Action.   The No Bail-Do Jail Approach. What to expect from cops and in
court.

Panel:Coalition Building With Other Movements for Justice- Suzanne Lustig,
Julia Wilczynski, Oliver & Melissa, more to be announced  As the popularity
animal rights chant, "ONE STRUGGLE, ONE FIGHT, HUMAN FREEDOM ANIMAL
RIGHTS!"  points out, struggles for human and nonhuman justice are rooted
in the same basic.  While much animal rights literature speaks of the
connection between animal rights and other social justice movements there
has been little concrete coalition building. The speaker in this workshop
are all either animal rights activists who have successfully built bridges
with other movements or activists from other movements who wish to build
bridges with animal rights activists.

Panel: Fighting Classroom Dissection Adam Weissman, Cara Thorsen, Jeni
Medra Student Choice or Total  Abolition? Three student anti-dissection
organizers will speak on their organizing experiences and gave their
recommendations for future campaigns

Panel: Getting Vegan Meals in Schools Valerie Greene, more to be announced,

Panel: Starting a  Student/Youth Animal Rights Group: Valerie Greene, Adam
Weissman, Sara Sohn, more to be announced

Turning Your Friend into Vegans Jeni Medra-Bartoli

Asserting  Yourself for the Animals- Adam Weissman Being Charismatic,
Strong and Unapologetic while tabling, canvassing, dealing with media, and
recruiting new activists

Panel:Dealing With Authorities: Parent, Teachers, and School Administrators
Jeni Medra, more to be announced

Getting Activist Resources From your School and Using Classtime for
Activism While Maintaining High Grades Julia Wilczynski and Jeni Medra
Getting resources without leaving the building (like they would let you!).
organizing other students in your school.  Getting the word out in school
publications, debates,  etc. How to get your activist work done without
failing math by using your time efficiently in class, detention, and
lunch...

Using Computers for Animal Rights -Pat Fish, Pete Muller  How to get free
email.  The best animal rights websites.  Researching campus vivisection on
the web.  Designing activist literature with your computer.  Animal rights
listservs and newsgroups.  Setting up computers for an efficient activist
office.

Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions -David Baumflek and Suzanne Lustig, Pete
Muller  What About Plants?  Animals each other, why shouldn't we? What are
your shoes made of?  If you're tired of being asked these question over and
over again , David and Suzanne will help you find some effective answers
that will hopefully educate the earnest questioned and tell of the
sarcastic.

Panel:Targeting the Public Mind Animal rights activists have been described
as "viewing the world from inside a demonstration." If we are to be
successful in influencing the public, we must put ourselves in our
audience's shoes, whether we're designing flyers or talking to reporters
-Anne Muller, Stu Chaifetz

Resource Sharing: Getting Stuff Free-Activism is costly business.  However
a little resourcefulness goes a long way, and there are lots of neccesary
thing we get free if we know where to look.  In this open forum activists
will talk about how to get free postage, photocopies, office supplies, and
lots of other things.

Networking Discussion: A free-form discussion on how Student Abolitionist
League can be fully realized as a student activist group network, either
regionally or nationwide.  Our relationship with the Student Environmental
Action Coalition will also be discussed.    We'll end by planning a
City-wide anti-dissection campaign to be launched over the summer.


Not yet Confirmed:
Prison Support - What do you do when your fellow activists are arrested?
Short term strategies to fight for the rights of arrested activists and
long term strategies to keep up the morale of incarcerated activist and to
keep the spirits of activist on the outside up to ensure that our
imprisoned comrades are not forgotten.

Discussion: Complementary Arguments: Do animals benefit from using
environmental, human health and safety, worker's rights and other such
arguments in order to covince people not to oppress animals in a certain
way. Or does this merely reinforce ania oppression by showing the public
that even animal rights activst accept the premise that human concerns come
first.  Does using these arguments qualify as makin legitmate linkages with
other movements for justice or are complemtar aguments just a way of
superficially repackaging the animal rights agenda?
About the Presenters:
Oliver Haydon and Melissa Jameson are founding member of the Root and
Branch Collective, a Ridgewood-NJ based peace organization.  They are
members of the War Resister's League and have both served on its Executive
Committee.

Cara Thorsen is the former president of Ethics and Animals at Ramapo
College.  She is currently organizing a fundraising canvass for the New
Jersey Animal Rights Alliance.

Julia Wilczynski co-founded the Coalition to Abolish the Fur
Trade-Philadelphia after working with the Coalition to Abolish the Fur
Trade-Boston.  She is leaving high school early next winter to go to
Goddard College.

Sara Sohn is the founder of the Animal Rights Club at Brooklyn Technical
High School.  She works for Beauty Without Cruelty/American Fund for
Alternatives to Animal Research, has interned for People for the Ethical
Treatment of Animals (PETA) and Farm Sanctuary, and is a founding member of
Student Abolitionist League and Student for Educational and Animal
Liberation at NYU.

Felicia Holden and her husband, John Sharpe, are former members of Animal
Defense League-Bloomington, Indiana at Indiana University.

Jeni Medra-Bartoli is is the founder of an informal student animal rights
activist collective at Forest Hills High School. She is a founding member
of Student Aboltionist League.

Valerie Greene is the co-president and a founding member of Students for
Education and Animal Liberation at New York University.  She maintains
Student Abolitionist League's information center.

Suzanne Lustig and David Baumflek are co-presidents of Students Against
Animal Cruelty at Edward R. Murrow High School.  Both are active
participants in Student Abolitionist Le`section campaign.  He worked/works
with Root & Branch Collective,  NJARA,  Committee to Abolish Sport  Hunting
(C.A.S.H.) (9 months on staff), and now runs Student Abolitionist League's
office and the Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade-NYC.

Peter and Anne Muller are President and Vice President of Wildlife Watch,
the umbrella organization for The Comittee to Abolish Sport Hunting and The
Coalition To Protect Canada Geese. Anne is the former education coordinator
of Greenpeace NYC, and Pete was active with the Stony Point Action Commitee
for the Environmentand Anne previously worked with the Weltands Rainforest
Action Group.  Anne is the founder and former President of Earthsave: The
Vegetarian Alliance, of which Pete was also a member.

Pat Fish is the founder of Computer Professionals for Animals and the
Environment (CPEA).  Pat is a member of the Central New York Vegetarian
Workgroup.

Dari Fullmer is co-president of Students for Education and Animal
Liberation at New York University and a member of the New Jersey Animal
Rights Alliance's northeast district.   He has been arrrested numerous
times for animal rights actions.  He is dropping out of NYU to allow
himself to be arrested more often and in protest of the LEMSIP chimp
transfer.

Stu Chaifetz runs the anti-hunting committee of the New Jersey Anmal Rights
Alliance.  He recently participated in a Ghandian hungerstrike strike in
protest of the planned New Jersey coyote hunt, and has worked against a
number odeer hunts and pigeon shoots.

Not Yet Confirmed:
John Reith runs the Jeff Watkins support committee with his girlfriend Amy,
on behalf of  one of the nation's two current animal rights prisoners of
conscience.  He and Amy is an active member of Animal Defense
League-Syracuse, and  was arrested in their first civil disobedience
action.

Matt Dunn has been the Outreach Coordinator for Friends of Animals in NYC
since September. Prior to that, he ran an environmental club, Envorg, at
Kalamazoo College and interned at People for the Ethical Treatment of
Animals.



Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 15:17:59 -0400 (EDT)
>From: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Joe Bruner RESIGNS from FGFWFC
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Disgusted with his dirty laundry being aired during confirmation hearings of
the Florida Game and Freshwater Fish Commission, Joe Bruner RESIGNED from his
appointed post.  He has been an "acting commissioner", appointed by his
family's good friend Governor Chiles.

Scathing testimony that he lied to a federal wildlife officer, had a cocaine
problem, was unsportsmanlike, had a hot temper and was cruel to animals was
"more than he could endure".  It was reported that when Bruner previously
agreed to "withdraw" (not resign), he would not be forced to answer questions
about his alleged drug use.  He could have remained in the position until
senate confirmation hearings resumed next spring.

According to news reports,  Bruner may have been damaged by the testimony of
a federal wildlife agent who said Bruner had lied about his Alabama address
after being caught shooting after hours during a 1989 hunting trip in
Louisiana.  But Bruner was most damaged by the testimony of former friend and
now foe Fred Tolbert III of Destin, who said he and Bruner had long done
cocaine together and that Bruner once took him fox hunting and lured adult
fox by playing a tape recording of baby foxes crying over his truck's stereo
loudspeakers.

Charlene Inglis
I CARE
P.O. Box 279
Osprey (Sarasota), Florida 34229
941/966-4075
FAX [phone]
Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 16:08:44 -0400 (EDT)
>From: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail], [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Ocean Spray Action Alert
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

At the risk of receiving I reminder not to post views (or in this case,
questions/I'm not sure if I'm in violation) on ar-news, why is it so awful
that OceanSpray printed a picture of a dolphin, for heavens sake, when
cranberry companies KILL so many robins and waxwings (as I've posted on
Ar-views).  Should we not write protests to all cranberry and blueberry
companies not for what they may promote, but for what the actually DO, unless
we establish that they don't slaughter birds?

Barry

In a message dated 97-05-09 16:10:52 EDT, [e-mail] (pawsinfo)
writes:

 << Subj:Ocean Spray Action Alert
  Date:97-05-09 16:10:52 EDT
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 To all,

 Ocean Spray, the juice company, ran a major coupon ad in Sunday papers
 across the country on May 4 which featured a photo of a captive dolphin and
 also promoting their support for the Center for Marine Compromise, OOPS, I
 mean Conservation?  As you know CMC is a supporter of the Dolphin Death Act,
 Sea World, Shedd Aquarium,etc.  Please send a letter to Ocean Spray and
 educate them about this wise use sellout organization!!
 Linda Compton
 Manager, Consumer Affairs
 Ocean Spray,Inc.
 1 Ocean Spray Drive
 Lakeville-Middleboro, MA  02349      1-800-662-3263

 FAX FOR BOTH: 508-946-7704
 c.c.: Tom Bullock CEO, Ocean Spray
 1 Ocean Spray Dr.
 Lakeville-Middleboro, MA  02349






 Bob Chorush  Web Administrator, Progressive Animal Welfare Society (PAWS)
 15305 44th Ave West (P.O. Box 1037)Lynnwood, WA 98046 [phone] ext
 862, [phone] fax
 email [e-mail]      http://www.paws.org



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Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 16:30:20 -0400 (EDT)
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To: [e-mail]
Subject: Apology
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Apologies to Ar-News viewers for recent posting re cranberries I ought not to
have posted (I was angry at the time and then forgot that it was there when
everything got posted.)

Barry
Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 17:20:47 -0400 (EDT)
>From: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Shorebirds killed in senseless act
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>From the front page of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, May 8, 1997

"Killing of 450 birds renews hot debate over beach driving"

Summary of story:
On April 20th a 17-year-old runs down and kills 450 shorebirds on the Long
Beach peninsula outraging wildlife officials, local residents and
birdlovers as far away as Connecticut.  Officials say the kid deliberately
drove a station wagon fast enough - 50 to 80 mph - to wipe out the flock of
Western Sandpipers, Dunlin, dowitchers, and Sanderling.  His mother says,
"He was just a teenager out driving on the beach, having fun and driving a
little too fast..."  The boy is charged with illegally hunting protected
wildlife, erratic driving, driving with no valid operatiors's license and
no proof of insurance.  He pleaded not guilty and claims the shorebird
deaths were an accident.

A sherriff's deputy found the group of dead birds and asked some California
tourists to be on the lookout for the vehicle that might have done it.  The
tourists spotted the car and followed it with their flashers on leading the
deputy and a wildlife agent to it.

The officials found the kid picking dead shorebirds from the grill of the
car.  They also have evidence of car tracks leading from the bird flock and
grill pieces of the same car in the tracks.  Per a wildlife department
enforcement sergeant, "There was evidence that gave us reason to believe
that erratic driving was responsible for the death of the birds."

Blah, blah, blah about the issue of driving on beaches in Washington.
End of Summary.

Letters to the Seattle PI may be sent to        [e-mail]
It must contain a full name, address, and daytime telephone number or it
won't get published.

The original story ran in the Chinook Observer of Long Beach, WA 98631
(Address unknown, but its a real small town.)  Long Beach is in the very SW
corner of Washington, just north of the Columbia River mouth.  It is about
25 miles of sandy beach.


Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 20:07:32 -0700
>From: Sandra Boss <[e-mail]>
To: "'[e-mail]'" <[e-mail]>
Subject: "Life and Death Under the Big Top"
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"Life and Death Under the Big Top," Sunday, May 11, 9:00 p.m. (est), CNN's Impact.  Teaser
showed a tiger and "trainer" presumably depicting recent event in Carrolltown, PA in which circus
owner was killed by performing tiger.
Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 23:58:18 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Pat Fish <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: MAD TV on Meat Again
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 MAD TV (FOX) just ran a their skit was about a meat shop called "Meat
Haven" where a young man is forced to sell meat by his threatening, abusive,
psychopathic, clever-wielding mother.  When he continually fails to sell
enough meat, she pushes his head down beside a meat grinder, sticks his hand
in the grinder, turns the crank (with a view of the hand-meat being forced
into his mouth) and says "no chewing!".

 Also, Nickelodean ran the bug-liberation episode of Rocko's World
yesterday.




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