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Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 21:57:36 -0700
From: Andrew Gach <UncleWolf@worldnet.att.net>
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Subject: Baby gorillas rescued in the Congo
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French troops save baby gorillas
Reuter Information Service
PARIS (June 17, 1997 11:32 a.m. EDT) - French troops took time out from
evacuating foreign nationals from the Congolese capital of Brazzaville
last week to rescue eight baby gorillas, a French
daily reported Tuesday.
France-Soir said a French military patrol took the four youngest
orphaned apes, whose mothers had been killed by poachers, from the
Brazzaville zoo last Thursday and sent them to the port of Pointe
Noire for safety.
The other four were sent to Pointe Noire on Sunday.
A member of an international wildlife preservation team had called the
French forces to express their concern about the gorillas' fate,
according to France Soir.
By a stroke of luck, the man who answered the phone was Major Michel
Sejalon, a member of "Gorilla," the French association for the
protection of gorillas.
The defence ministry declined to comment on the report.
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 21:58:38 -0700
From: Andrew Gach <UncleWolf@worldnet.att.net>
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Subject: Nose drops kill 4-year-old
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Nose drops blamed in death of 4-year-old
The Associated Press
PEEKSKILL, N.Y. (June 17, 1997 7:03 p.m. EDT) -- A 4-year-old boy who
died during a routine ear operation probably suffered a severe reaction
to common nose drops, state health officials said Tuesday.
Harry Donnelly died in February during surgery to remove his adenoids
and insert tubes in his ears to combat infection.
According to a state report, a nurse followed the surgeon's instructions
to put three drops of the drug phenylephrine into each nostril. The
drug, available over the counter as a nasal spray, is often used to
constrict blood vessels and make surgery less bloody.
The report said Donnelly's quick drop in blood oxygen levels, his ashen
color and the failure of resuscitation attempts support the finding that
the drug caused high blood pressure and severe tightening of the blood
vessels. That led to heart failure and fluid in the lungs.
The boy's parents, Edward and Lauralee Donnelly, have sued Hudson Valley
Hospital, the surgeon and the anesthesiologist.
Their lawyer, Henry Miller, said that even if the drug caused a severe
reaction, "Where was the monitoring? A person's brain doesn't go from
perfect health to irreversible damage in a few seconds."
The finding prompted officials to issue an alert to all hospitals in the
state and to order an expert panel to come up with new recommendations
for use of the drug in ear-nose-and-throat surgery.
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 22:50:25 -0700
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Controversial 'mad cow disease' scientist warns of plague in 2000
London Observer Service
LONDON (June 18, 1997 00:56 a.m. EDT) -- A plague on your millennium.
And rabies too. These are the latest apocalyptic predictions of Dr
Richard Lacey, the controversial scientist who first warned that mad cow
disease could spread to people.
In a book he has published himself, Lacey paints a portrait of Britain
in 2000 in which agriculture has been devastated by crop-eating aphids
and rabies stalks the fox population. The current use of insecticides to
kill aphids and at the same time their natural predators actually favors
the aphids in the long-term, says Lacey. Those aphids that survive
spraying can breed again in late summer before the slower- breeding
ladybirds have a chance to re-establish themselves and control the pest.
Modern farming methods are making matters worse.
"Instead of mixed farms where you have integration of animals and arable
crops, we now have intensive farms," says Lacey. "The fact that they've
been separated is likely to cause a plague of aphids."
Lacey is likely to draw fire for his new claims. In the past he has been
much criticized for bypassing medical journals and going straight to the
press. This time he has gone a step further: his warnings
come in his first novel.
"Red, Yellow and Blue make White" begins in the present-day landscape of
food scares and infections and ends in 2003. Lacey has environmental
activists leaving their tree houses and tunnels
to form a new band of eco-terrorists. Armed with stolen infectious
bacteria and exploding cars, they set out to hit society where it really
hurts -- in the food chain. Their target: non-sustainable farming
methods and car culture.
Lacey says his claims are in earnest and that he is publishing them in a
novel because of frustration with traditional methods.
"I've tried normal ways and you end up with government and financial
interests lying. This is a new approach. Fiction may well be a better
vehicle," he says.
The question is, as Sir Jerry Wiggin once put it when he was chairman of
the House of Commons Select Committee on Agriculture in London: is Lacey
"losing touch with reality?" Can we safely ignore him? Or is his track
record too impressive for his claims to be dismissed out of hand?
The caricature of Lacey as a mad professor is in some ways inviting. It
is his contention that as you read this there is a 50-50 chance you are
incubating Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. A visiting professor at Leeds
University in north England who has advised the British government and
the World Health Organization, he also claims rabies will arrive in the
UK within a few years. "It's a fairly likely
prediction that it will get into this country and it will stop
fox-hunting because of the risk of infection. It's likely because of the
Channel Tunnel and people wanting to remove quarantine restrictions."
What makes Lacey especially enigmatic is that he is an arch conspiracy
theorist. He was a pebble in the shoe of the last government during its
attempt to stem public concern over BSE. He claims that letters and
manuscripts sent to the publisher of his book "Mad Cow Disease -- The
History of BSE in Britain" were intercepted and opened. Smashed windows
and cut power lines led to the invention of a fictitious Jersey-based
company as publisher of.the book.
While Lacey's warnings may grip beef eaters, it is unclear whether his
novel will thrill readers who are not confirmed environmentalists.
--By TIM LLOYD WRIGHT, London Observer Service
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 01:08:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: David J Knowles <dknowles@dowco.com>
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`McVerdict' Will Be a Whopper
By DIRK BEVERIDGE AP Business Writer
LONDON (AP) -- The McVerdict is almost in.
After fighting the longest battle ever waged in an English court, the multibillion-dollar McDonald's Corp. finds out Thursday whether it was able to defeat two vegetarian activists who call the company the epitome of evil multinational capitalism.
The judge, Justice Roger Bell, has spent six months preparing a verdict in the ``McLibel'' case that court officials say fills three volumes.
After listening to 313 days of testimony and arguments, and reading through 40,000 pages of evidence, Bell's judgment is so bulky that officials say only a summary will be made immediately available for public consumption.
Even the abbreviated version will take about an hour and a half for the judge to explain, court officials said Wednesday.
Legal experts have predicted Bell's decision will be a hollow victory for McDonald's, after the hamburger giant used a high-powered libel team against the defendants, unemployed ex-postman Dave Morris and part-time bar worker Helen Steel, who represented themselves wearing jeans and sweatshirts.
If Morris and Ms. Steel should somehow win, McDonald's would face enormous humiliation after fighting for years in a case estimated to have cost 10 million pounds ($16 million).
Regardless of the judge's ruling, Morris and Ms. Steel claim they are the real victors because they were able to draw much attention to their criticism of the company's business practices.
The battle began years ago, when McDonald's went after activists from the obscure left-wing group London Greenpeace, not related to the well-known Greenpeace International, for handing out anti-McDonald's pamphlets outside the company's fast-food outlets in Britain.
McDonald's says the pamphlets -- entitled ``What's wrong with McDonald's, Everything they don't want you to know'' -- are totally false and defamatory.
The leaflet, which Morris and Ms. Steel call ``the fact sheet,'' accuses McDonald's of paying low wages, fighting union organization, abusing workers and animals, serving beef raised on former rainforest land, promoting an unhealthy diet and targeting children through seductive advertising campaigns that feature the clown Ronald McDonald.
Although the activists likely would have gained little attention with the original leaflets, the case has attracted widespread media attention, including a global anti-McDonald's Internet site, numerous news articles and broadcast reports, a book and a recent British television miniseries.
McDonald's said it was only seeking to protect its reputation, but the activists say their supporters will keep on handing out tens of thousands of the anti-McDonald's leaflets no matter which way the judge rules.
