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Drug Gets Marketing Approval as Rivalry Grows

(Wall Street Journal - Nov. 28, 1997)

By Robert Langreth
Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Zeneca Group PLC received marketing approval for its new
migraine-headache drug, a move that is expected to boost competition in
the $1 billion migraine drug market and provide migraine sufferers more
options for pain relief.

The British drug company said it received Food and Drug Administration
clearance for Zomig, an oral migraine medication that will compete
directly with Glaxo Wellcome PLC's top-selling drug Imitrex.

Some 23 million Americans suffer from migraines, which are excruciating
recurring headaches caused by inflammation of the blood vessels and
other tissues on the surface of the brain. Until Imitrex was approved in
1993, there were few effective remedies.

Now, numerous drug companies are racing to market migraine drugs similar
to Imitrex. Merck & Co. is waiting for approval for its migraine drug
Maxalt, which it claims will work faster than Imitrex. Glaxo has another
migraine drug under review, which is expected to decrease the frequency
at which headaches recur when the medicine wears off. The competition
for market share is expected to be intense.

Doctors said Zomig is likely to prove helpful in many patients who
haven't responded well to Imitrex or other drugs. "In some patients,
this seems to work better . . . and faster than Imitrex," said Alan
Rapoport, a neurologist and director of the New England Center for
Headache in Stamford, Conn., who helped test the drug. "I've had several
patients who didn't do well on Imitrex who got a very rapid response
with few or no side-effects on Zomig."

In clinical tests involving some 4,700 patients, 66% of patients who
received a low dose of Zomig experienced some pain relief within two
hours, while 36% of patients who received a placebo experienced some
relief at two hours. About 25% of Zomig patients were pain-free at two
hours, against 6% on a placebo.

Zomig can't be directly compared with Imitrex because the two drugs
weren't tested together, but between 50% and 57% of patients who took
varying doses of Imitrex tablets in Glaxo's clinical tests experienced
some pain relief at two hours, according to the Physicians' Desk
Reference; in those tests, between 17% and 26% of those on placebo
experienced some relief within two hours.

A Glaxo spokeswoman said that data published to date suggest that the
Zomig and Imitrex tablets have similar efficacy. She added that the
introduction of new drugs will help increase the sales of all migraine
drugs because marketing by the companies will persuade more headache
sufferers to see their doctors. Currently, only 10% of migraine
sufferers are treated with prescription drugs.

Zeneca said that Zomig should be in drugstores by January 1998.
Side-effects include sensations of tightness and pressure in various
parts of the body, lack of energy, nausea, dizziness, drowsiness, and
tingling of the skin.
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Hunter believed killed by rare hantavirus

The Associated Press - TREXLERTOWN, Pa. (November 28, 1997 3:47 p.m. EST

A hunter who died last week apparently contracted the deadly hantavirus
while hunting, marking the first case in Pennsylvania of the rare
illness.

Since the Nov. 16 death of Robert Hillegass II, the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention has launched a survey to find out how prevalent
the disease is among rodents in eastern Pennsylvania.

Hunters and other people spending time outdoors need to be cautious,
said Dr. Luther Rhodes, chief of infectious diseases at Lehigh Valley
Hospital and one of the physicians who treated the 39-year-old
Hillegass. Buck season in Pennsylvania opens Monday.

There is no cure for the hantavirus, which causes people's lungs to fill
with fluid and has a 40 to 80 percent fatality rate. It takes one to
three weeks to incubate, then begins with flu-like symptoms. Death is
usually caused by a respiratory infection.

The hantavirus has killed 88 people in 28 states since 1993, when it was
first identified in the United States.

The disease is believed to be transmitted when fresh rat dung, urine or
saliva is stirred up and contaminated particles get into the air and are
inhaled. People also get it through contact with rodents, their
droppings or nests.

In the eastern United States, previous cases have been reported in New
York, Rhode Island, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina and Florida.
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 21:39:44 -0800
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Men, you have a biological clock too

Reuters  - WASHINGTON (November 28, 1997 4:53 p.m. EST)

Your biological clock -- the internal mechanism that helps you sleep at
night and wake in the morning -- might not be just in your head,
scientists have found. If you're a male, it's probably also in your
testicles.

"It does give a whole new meaning to the rhythm method," said Steve Kay,
a cell biologist at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego.

Scientists used to believe that the human body's clock was all inside
the brain, in a place called the superchiasmatic nucleus, but a new
study in Thursday's edition of the journal Science found that clocks may
be ticking all over the body.

These clocks, determined in different animals by different genes,
respond to daily changes in light over the course of a day and to the
more gradual changes in light over the course of a year.

In flies, mice and men, the gene is called the period gene.

"Recently the period gene has been found to be in humans," Kay said in a
telephone interview. "The place where the period gene is most highly
expressed in mouse and I think in humans is the testes."

Kay and other researchers at Brandeis University in Boston and at the
National Science Foundation's Center for Biological Timing studied fruit
flies to determine where the period gene was working to set the body's
circadian rhythms.

The scientists identified this so-called period gene, spliced it with a
jellyfish gene that stained the period gene fluorescent green, and
looked at the flies under microscopes.

The period gene was all over the insects: in the digestive tract, in the
mouth, on the feet and legs and at the base of tiny hairs, according to
Steve Kay of the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California.

With a bit more genetic splicing, using firefly genes this time, the
scientists managed to find which of these biological clocks were
actually ticking in the fruit flies, Kay said in a telephone interview.

Many of them were ticking with 24-hour regularity, and this was visible
because parts of the fruit flies glowed dull yellow and dimmed over a
one-day cycle, independently of the flies' brains.

The study of these individual genes may shed light on such larger
biological clock-related ailments as seasonal-affective disorders, which
are characterized by depression in some people during the darker, winter
months.

It could also lead to new strategies for the treatment of jet lag and
shift work, the scientists said.

By DEBORAH ZABARENKO, Reuters
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 21:16:59
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>From The Electronic Telegraph - Saturday, November 29th, 1997

Foxhunting ban 'by year 2000'
By George Jones and Joy Copley

LABOUR MPs last night confidently predicted that fox hunting would be
banned by 2000 after the Commons voted by a 260 majority in favour of the
private member's Bill to outlaw hunting
with dogs.

Although the Bill is unlikely to succeed this session, Tony Blair indicated
that the Government would allow another opportunity for a ban to become law
within the next two years. The 411 to 151 vote for the second reading of
the Wild Mammals (Hunting with Dogs) Bill was, supporters claimed, the
biggest ever show of support for a private member's Bill.

It was greeted by a resounding cheer and unparliamentary clapping from
Labour MPs who had packed the Commons chamber. Outside the Commons, the
Bill's sponsor, Mike Foster, Labour MP for Worcester, was applauded by
anti-hunt campaigners.

He claimed that it was a historic vote and the "barbaric" sport was now
doomed. He vowed to make every effort to get the Bill through Parliament,
saying: "We have clearly got the mandate of the British people and the
House of Commons."

Tory opponents of Mr Foster's Bill insisted that the votes against - which
exceeded their original expectations - showed that there was still a
significant minority in Parliament prepared to fight a ban. They predicted
that a determined band of parliamentary opponents would be able to use
delaying tactics to kill off the Bill in the spring.

Although ministers reaffirmed that the Government would not provide extra
time for the Bill to become law, the Prime Minister gave the strongest hint
yet that the Government would act later if Mr Foster's attempt failed.

Mr Blair was among 10 members of the Cabinet who did not vote yesterday.
But in a message to MPs from Bosnia, where he was visiting British
peacekeeping forces, he underlined his personal support for the Bill.

He said if it was blocked the Government would not be to blame. It would be
the fault of those MPs and peers who sought to "sabotage" the Bill. But he
added: "We are keeping this matter open to review for the future."

Ministerial aides later acknowledged that it would be impossible for the
Government to ignore such an overwhelming show of support by MPs for a ban.

One option under active consideration is for a backbencher to propose an
anti-hunting amendment to a government criminal justice Bill, expected in
the next session of Parliament. "It is our aim to have the ban in place by
the millennium," a government source said.

Yesterday was the most electrifying day in the Commons since the election,
with arguments raging within the parties as well as across the floor of the
chamber.

But Mr Foster, elected for the first time in May, introduced his Bill with
what many observers regarded as a lacklustre speech. He said the aim of the
Bill was to protect wild mammals from "cruelty and from the unnecessary
pain and suffering inflicted in the name of a so-called sport".

It was a Conservative backbencher, Ann Widdecombe, the former Home Office
minister, who delivered the most powerful speech in favour of the Bill. She
challenged supporters of hunting to take a trip to Kenya, stand in a lion
reserve unprotected and see if they enjoyed the hunt. "I might enjoy
watching it," she said.

At one point, the deputy Speaker, Michael Martin, rebuked new Labour MPs
for clapping instead of saying "hear, hear" to express approval.

Michael Heseltine, the former deputy Prime Minister, led the defence of
hunting and claimed that the Bill was merely part of an agenda "which will
move relentlessly through fishing and shooting and angling".

He condemned the Bill as representing a "streak of intolerance", which
would not save the life of a single animal and would have a damaging effect
on rural communities.

Two Labour MPs, Kate Hoey (Vauxhall) and Llin Golding
(Newcastle-under-Lyme) voted against the Bill. Miss Hoey said it was a bad
and intolerant Bill and challenged Mr Foster on what her response should be
to a young girl whose two guinea-pigs were killed less than a
mile from Westminster by a fox.

George Howarth, junior Home Office minister, received a rough ride when he
condemned fox hunting as "repugnant and unacceptable" while defending the
Government's decision not to provide extra time for the Bill.

Challenged repeatedly on whether the Government would intervene if the Bill
was threatened, he sidestepped the issue, saying it was a "hypothetical
question".

He insisted that as long as pro-hunting MPs did not indulge in delaying
tactics, there was no reason why the Bill should not complete all its
stages. But after Dominic Grieve, the Conservative MP for Beaconsfield,
warned that he would use every possible device to hold it up, Mr Howarth
claimed that the Tories would reach new depths of unpopularity if they
tried to thwart the will of the people and Parliament.

Before the vote, William Hague, the Conservative leader, shook hand with
pro-hunt campaigners who had staged a vigil outside Westminster.

Eight Conservative MPs, including Miss Widdecombe and Sir Teddy Taylor, the
leading Euro-sceptic, voted for Mr Foster's Bill. Another 26 Tory MPs did
not vote, including John Major and Edward Heath. Alan Clark, MP for
Kensington and Chelsea and a noted campaigner for animal rights, abstained.

The most notable absentees on the Labour side were Cabinet ministers.These
included Robin Cook, the Foreign Secretary, who was visiting Poland, Gordon
Brown, the Chancellor, and John Prescott, the deputy Prime Minister. Paddy
Ashdown, the Liberal Democrat leader, did not vote. But 14 of his MPs
opposed the Bill.

Ministers later justified the decision not to provide time for Mr Foster's
Bill on the grounds that if it became bogged down in the House of Lords, it
would threaten to wreck the Government's legislative programme of 25 major
Bills.

⌐ Copyright Telegraph Group Limited 1997.
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Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 21:20:35
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>From The Electronic Telegraph - Saturday, November 29th, 1997

Path to a ban is still littered with parliamentary hurdles
By Charles Clover, Environment Editor

HOURS before Mike Foster's Bill gained its 260-vote majority yesterday,
John Bryant, formerly of the League Against Cruel Sports and now adviser to
Mr Foster, was predicting that hunting would be banned in time for the 1999
season.

For that to happen, events would have to play like this: Mr Foster's Bill
would go into its committee stage, some time just before or just after
Christmas.

If was not killed off there - death by a hundred amendments - it would be
expected to be talked out at Report stage, certainly by the end of March.

The Government would prefer that it was seen to be killed off by Tory
tactics, rather than the Government's refusal to grant it time. Enter,
possibly as soon as two weeks from now, a new Bill to amend the criminal
justice system, one of the Government's flagship pieces of legislation.

In the past, Home Office Bills have been known as Christmas tree Bills,
because people have managed to hang all sorts of unforeseen amendments on
them.

If the title of the next Home Office Bill, expected to be called the Crime
and Disorder Bill, is loosely drawn, the Foster Bill could reappear within
months as an amendment to it. More likely for amendment is a new Criminal
Justice Bill, expected next year.

Assuming that the Government allowed a free vote on the matter and an
amendment banning hunting won a sizeable majority in the Commons, it would
still need to get through the unreformed House of Lords. Hereditary peers
about to lose their voting rights might see this as an issue on which to
make a last stand. Mr Bryant's prediction of a hunting ban by 1999 could
still become reality if anti-hunting MPs got a Bill to amend this year and
Government chose to invoke the Parliament Act of 1911, passed by Lloyd
George to get his tax reforms through the Lords, which would mean the Act
would have to be passed within a year.

⌐ Copyright Telegraph Group Limited 1997.
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Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 21:39:47
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>From The Electronic Telegraph - Saturday, November 29th, 1997

Manchester Disunited

Even its fans say that the world's richest football club has scored a
spectacular environmental own goal. Stephen Kingston reports

IT is a normal day at the Cliff, Manchester United's training ground in
deepest Salford. Beneath the bullet-grey clouds, the most glamorous players
in Europe are filing out in cars that cost more than the average salary of
the drizzle-soaked mums and dads who have waited hours with their children
to meet their heroes.

Some players sign an autograph or two from rolled-down windows. Others
drive straight through. Then the strangest thing happens. At the gates an
8ft-tall badger appears brandishing a placard saying "M U F C - Most Unfair
For Creatures". It badgers, as it were, England striker Teddy Sheringham,
seated signing photographs in the safety of his Ferrari. What does he think
of United building its new training ground on green-belt land? "As long as
it's nearer my house I don't care," he decides. Politely.

Next out is Ryan Giggs. Does he agree with evicting furry creatures to
further United's corporate ambitions? "Don't know anything about it," he
mutters, taking a leaflet imploring him not to put the boot in - to
Carrington Moss. Goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel - a veteran of Manchester city
council's "green campaign" - panics and almost runs the protesting critter
over in an attempt to escape the sort of ear-bashing he usually dishes out
to his defenders. Striker Andy Cole agrees to give it some thought . .
.Here is what many consider to be the most powerful team in the world
getting seriously worried by a great big fluffy badger. In the publicity
battle, it is the newly formed no-hopers Carrington United 1, Manchester
United 0.

Campaigners have taken the eco-game to the richest club in football after
the Department of the Environment recently decided not to "call in" for a
public inquiry the development of 110 acres of land in the Trafford borough
of Manchester. The area that United wants to turn into a
multi-million-pound luxury training complex - including 15 football
pitches, car parks, running tracks, accommodation and indoor facilities -
is at  present grade two agricultural land on Carrington Moss.

The Moss is wide-open land, which, if dropped into the Vale of Evesham,
would be pretty unspectacular, with its muddy ploughed soil, hedgerows and
bare trees. But placed in the middle of Carrington's huge housing and
industrial estates, it becomes almost an Eden of fresh air and foraging
birds away from the choking traffic of the nearby A56 and the rusty, steel
skyline of Shell plants and pylons. The land has been farmed by the
Litherland family for more than 100 years and now produces top-quality
carrots, potatoes and cereals for local shops, and supermarkets all over
Britain and Europe.

The Litherlands thought their farm would be protected under Trafford
council's Unitary Development Plan, which states, among other things, that
"the council will seek to ensure that viable farm holdings are not severed
or fragmented by non-agricultural development". The family also believed
that their land would be safeguarded under the Regional Planning
Guidelines for the North-West, which declare that "pressure to increase the
intensity of development . . . should not be at the expense of . . .
protected open land, including green belt and high-quality agricultural
land" (paragraph 3.4).

They thought wrong. Trafford council's planning committee gave outline
planning permission to United's proposals, squeezing the development
through a loophole that allows for "recreational activities". The loophole
was kept ajar with promises by the club to limit the environmental impact.

"When we were first told, we were devastated - you think it just can't be
real," says Mark Litherland, who, with Kevin, his United-supporting
brother, has invested heavily in equipment to bring the farm up to top
standards. "They've kicked the legs from under us. We're just a small
farming family, but they are two of the biggest companies in the country."

The two companies in question are the eco-warriors' bΩte noire, Shell UK,
which owns the land, and Manchester United plc, which wants to purchase
this patch rather than alternative, more environmentally friendly sites.
Ironically, the club favours Carrington particularly because of its
beautiful rural landscape and isolated position. Harold Bardsley, Shell's
regional external affairs manager, argues that United has fulfilled all the
criteria for developing green-belt land. "A lot of the concerns raised by
the people who are against it have been answered by work carried out by
Manchester United - particularly on the environmental impact," he says.

Unfortunately, not one of the groups protesting about the proposed
development - ranging from the Council for the Protection of Rural England
to Tory and Liberal Democrat councillors to Earth First - seem ecstatic
with the plans. Indeed, they are up in arms."No comment," replies Bardsley.

Two of those who are not happy are Judith Smith, the Greater Manchester
County Bird Recorder, and Margaret McCormick of the Cheshire Wildlife
Trust. "It's definitely going to lead to a decline in the number of birds
and species that are at present breeding on the site," says Smith. "There's
no doubt about that. Some are on the red and amber list.  Included on these
endangered lists are the rapidly decreasing grey partridge, here breeding
naturally on Carrington Moss, together with yellow wagtails, corn buntings,
lapwings, skylarks, linnets and many other statutory protected species.

"It's an environmental disaster," says McCormick, who is a voluntary
reserve manager on the Moss. "It's not just about farmers losing their
living and us not being able to go around with our binoculars and bobble
hats looking at birds. It's about the whole environment. "Manchester United
has said it's going to plant trees but the birds we're concerned about are
those that feed in flat agricultural land and moorland. And it says it's
going to build a bank to protect the wood, but floodlighting, shouting and
vehicles coming and going isn't conducive to wildlife. "It guts me. They've
just done a scanty survey and bulldozed it through. It's about
money, power and council influence."

Everyone who opposes the plan has smelled, if not a rat, then a nasty Red
Devil scurrying in the undergrowth of the proceedings, particularly when
the controversial scheme was not called for a public inquiry. "When I first
heard that it wasn't going to be called in, I thought I was being wound
up," says Trafford councillor Philip Gratrix, who moved the original motion
to allow United outline planning permission. "I moved it on the basis that
groups would have an input at the public inquiry. My son's a red-hot United
supporter and he said the only reason it hasn't been called in was that it
was Manchester United."

Keith Reynolds, a spokesman for Friends of the Earth who organised the
"badger revolt", also blames glamour blindness. "People have fought to
preserve these green spaces and then United comes along with a great deal
of money and a huge image and Trafford council caves in," he says. "It's
almost as if the councillors have been hypnotised by this great big
football club. There's no dissent from most of them. All they're saying is:
'Wouldn't it be prestigious to have Manchester United training in our area
and to hell with the locals and their environment and to hell with the
family who have farmed the land productively.' It's insane."

Now United is putting together its final plans, which will then go back to
the council for legal approval. "We can't pin anyone down about this," says
Mark Litherland. "The council says: 'It's not us, it's Shell.' United says:
'It's not us, it's Shell.' Shell says: 'It's United and the council.' The
council says: 'It's the Government.' But the Government passes it back to
the council . .. It just goes round and round. Nobody will hold up their
hands and say: 'We're doing this, we're going to sink this family.' "
Meanwhile, keeping very quiet and incredibly elusive in all this, are the
powers that be at Manchester United, anxious perhaps that their glamour
image could be
tarnished by the tag of "English eco-hooligans" should the campaign gather
momentum. Hordes of fans are teenage girls with posters of cute fox cubs
and badgers hanging on their walls beside doe-eyed photos of David Beckham
and Giggs. Any bad publicity could seriously affect the merchandising that
has allowed the publicly floated company to report a
record ú27.6 million profit this year.

No one at the club would comment this week. But protesters hope that by
alerting United's globally based green fans to the plans they can
eventually embarrass the club into backtracking. They have already produced
shirts showing a bloodthirsty red devil pondering its money-bags and
rampaging through the countryside frightening birds and beasts and
butterflies. Definitely not good for the image.

Last week, Newcastle United finally gave up its quest for a new stadium on
moorland in the face of a 37,000-name petition, 50,000 leaflets and more
than 1,000 letters of protest. The Carrington campaigners are now drawing
strength from that victory.

"I've been a United supporter since I was seven, so this isn't some stupid
argument about environmentalists versus football," says Charles Secrett,
the director of Friends of the Earth. "We're not anti-football, we just
think that a big corporation has come up with a stupid development proposal
that might meet its own interests but goes against the interests of the
community and breaks planning guidelines that are there to protect the
green belt."

So the 8ft badger and his pals will no doubt be harassing that corporation
in the weeks to come. While United might be scaring the living daylights
out of Juventus et al in the European Champions' League, at home,
Carrington United, the no-hopers with scant resources, are lying in wait to
trip up the club. For them, this new training ground is one giant own goal.

⌐ Copyright Telegraph Group Limited 1997.

Notes:

1) Soccer is known as football in the UK
2) The team nickname for Manchester United is "The Red Devils"
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Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 21:41:44
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>From The Electronic Telegraph - Saturday, November 29th, 1997

Wilde about that dog - he's so extreme

PERCY George Titus, an 11-year-old black and tan terrier, is currently
working with the artist Maggi Hambling on her monument to Oscar Wilde.
"Percy has quite an effect on the way I work," she says. "Having an
awareness of the state of being alive every moment while you are working is
the only way the thing you're working on can have any life in it  . . ."

She finds Percy's attitude to life inspiring. "His life of extremes is an
example. He is either sound asleep or intensively active, when he's
charging after a new lady - or occasionally a new gentleman - for
instance." As a puppy, Percy chose her, rather than she him. "There were
various boxes containing rescued puppies and Percy was in one with his
brother. Every time he was replaced in the box he leapt out again and sat
on my feet. He has been in command ever since."

Maggi is a passionate opponent of docking. "When he's charging along with
his tail as a banner, you feel all's right with the world. I think Percy is
extremely distinguished. No dog has better natural make-up." Percy sleeps
in, rather than just on, the bed. "He goes right down to the bottom. I
can't think why he doesn't suffocate, but I imagine that, as a terrier, he
was bred to go down rabbit holes."

'Percy Jumping, 1986' can be seen in the Blue Cross 'Animals in Art'
exhibition at the Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, until December 6.
Maggi Hambling's exhibition, 'A Conversation with Oscar Wilde', is at the
Hugh Lane Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin, until December 17.

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For Immediate Release
November 28, 1997 (10 p.m. PST)




69 ARRESTED IN MILITANT
ACTIONS AGAINST FUR IN U.S.

        As of late Friday night, there appears to be AT LEAST 69 arrests as
of result of anti-fur protests by a coalition of grassroots activists
throughout the U.S.

        CNN also reported 22 arrests in NYC. If added to the total, it would
make it AT LEAST 91 arrests.

        Media coverage locally was reported as massive in cities where there
were arrests, and in cities were there were none. National coverage included
NPR, CNN (all day), AP Radio, AP, Reuters and any number of regional
publications.

        Most of the activists arrested remain in jail Friday night, some on
misdemeanors and some on felonies, including those in Beverly Hills, San
Francisco,Minneapolis.

        The totals are Minneapolis (18), Garden City NY (13), San Francisco
(11), Dallas (10), Beverly Hills (8), Albany (4), Eatontown, NJ (2), Atlanta
(2), Boston (1).

        One protestor remains aloft the crane at Macy's in San Francisco --
the others came down and were charged with felony conspiracy late Friday night.

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                         Battle Grows Over Where the Yellowstone Buffalo
                         Roam

                         Activists Try to Halt Montana's Slaughter of
                         Diseased Bison Despite Danger to Livestock

                         By Mark Matthews
                         Special to The Washington Post
                         Saturday, November 29, 1997; Page A16
                         The Washington Post

                         WEST YELLOWSTONE, Mont.ùThe young men and women
                         quietly trudge through the snowy woods just
                         beyond the western boundary of Yellowstone
                         National Park, shadowing bison that have
                         wandered outside the park.

                         Last year more than 1,100 bison were killed by
                         Montana Department of Livestock officials after
                         they left the park, either being trapped and
                         shipped to slaughter or shot. The bison carry
                         brucellosis, a disease that can be transmitted
                         to cattle.

                         The activists, who call themselves Buffalo
                         Nation, intend to disrupt any slaughter this
                         year with civil disobedience.

                         "We have got people here who are willing to
                         step in front of the guns," said Jeremy Lynch,
                         a member of the Lakota Sioux tribe from Rapid
                         City, S.D. "This is the last wild bison herd in
                         the United States, and we want to keep them
                         wild."

                         They aren't the only ones.

                         The Montana Wildlife Federation recently
                         submitted a plan to state and federal officials
                         that would allow the bison to roam out of the
                         park like any other species of wildlife, then
                         be managed with a licensed hunt.

                         "We want to insure that any management plan
                         treats the bison as wildlife," said the
                         federation's Jim Richard.

                         Federal and state officials who have been
                         working on a draft environmental study due out
                         this January seem to be leaning toward managing
                         the bison as livestock. A copy of their
                         preferred alternative so far, obtained by the
                         Greater Yellowstone Coalition, shows herd
                         levels would be maintained at 1,800 to 2,500,
                         mostly by trapping excess animals in corrals.
                         Those with brucellosis would be slaughtered,
                         while uninfected animals would be put in
                         quarantine and later given to Indian tribes or
                         sent off to other public herds.

                         As the herd dropped to the 1,800 level, only
                         bison that tested positive would be sent to
                         slaughter. Others would be marked and released
                         back into the park. Officials are also
                         discussing plans to vaccinate the herd against
                         brucellosis.

                         Richard contends there will be too much
                         handling of the animals. "It would be easier to
                         manage cattle that aren't even on that range in
                         winter," Richard said. "We've got to let the
                         bison have some room to roam outside the park."

                         There is a chance to give the bison more
                         breathing space at the park's northern entrance
                         near Gardiner, Mont., said Jeanne-Marie
                         Souvigney, head of the Greater Yellowstone
                         Coalition.

                         The Church Universal and Triumphant is willing
                         to trade 6,000 acres of private land that
                         borders the park for 1,000 Forest Service
                         acres. Church officials say they will also put
                         1,850 neighboring acres into conservation
                         easements dedicated to wildlife.

                         "We hate to see the bison hunted," said
                         spokeswoman Christina Sarlo. "It's horrible for
                         us." The land swap would fill in holdings
                         amidst church property, making it more
                         valuable, Sarlo said.

                         The Yellowstone Coalition is also negotiating
                         with local ranchers to give up some grazing
                         leases on National Forest land that abuts the
                         park.

                         "This area is important wildlife habitat,"
                         Souvigney said. "It is also home to elk, deer,
                         pronghorn antelope and bighorn sheep."

                         As it stands, government officials are ready to
                         trap or shoot again this winter. However, one
                         proposed plan may cut down on the number of
                         wandering animals if another brutal winter
                         forces them to lower elevations.

                         That proposal, the preferred alternative of a
                         draft Environmental Assessment on the effects
                         of winter use of the park, would restrict
                         snowmobile use on a 14-mile stretch of trail in
                         the park's interior.

                         Some biologists contend that grooming
                         snowmobile trails makes it easier for the bison
                         to migrate out of the park. Plus, the easy
                         movement that the winter trails provide has
                         also allowed more bison to survive rough
                         winters, leading to overpopulation of the
                         herds.

                         Last winter, about 114,000 people zoomed around
                         the park on snowmobiles. The sport is a
                         multimillion-dollar industry for gateway towns
                         like West Yellowstone. Park officials estimate
                         the trail closure could cost neighboring towns
                         from $107,000 to $3.5 million. Sen. Conrad
                         Burns (R-Mont.) reacted to the threat against
                         the tourism industry by submitting a bill to
                         the Senate that would require the National Park
                         Service to allow snowmobiling in the park and
                         extend the winter season at Yellowstone.

                         But in West Yellowstone, despite some early
                         panic over erroneous reports that the entire
                         park would be closed this winter, business
                         owners seemed to be keeping an open mind.

                         "I believe the best decision will be made,"
                         said Viki Eggers, director of the local Chamber
                         of Commerce. "I'm optimistic because the draft
                         EA states that they don't know yet how winter
                         use affects the bison. I just don't want to see
                         any closure of the park without the science to
                         back it up."

                         Local merchants are caught in the middle. They
                         don't want to lose business, but they want the
                         killing stopped. The ongoing slaughter has
                         emotionally affected many of them.

                         Two winters ago, gift shop owner Vickie Dyar,
                         was stopped at a roadblock as sharpshooters
                         leaned their guns across the hoods of vehicles
                         to aim at bison that struggled through the
                         snow.

                         "If there wasn't anybody there to skin them and
                         save the meat, they just dragged them off to
                         the dump," she said. "It was pretty
                         horrifying."

                         Last winter, when a wayward bison sought refuge
                         in a small barn on her property about nine
                         miles outside the park, Dyar never thought of
                         calling the authorities. Instead, she fed the
                         animal for two months until the snow melted and
                         it left on its own.

                         Dyar says she wasn't the only member of the
                         buffalo underground.

                         "You'd see little clusters of bison in the
                         areas where people threw out hay," she said.

                         This winter, the buffalo underground could
                         expand even more as Buffalo Nation organizers
                         expect more human shields to arrive as winter
                         progresses.

                         "People are coming here from across the
                         country," co-founder Michael Mease said. "Some
                         will stay for a week. Some for a month. We're
                         just starting to build our numbers."

                         As of this week, about eight bull bison had
                         left the park's sanctuary. So far, Department
                         of Livestock officials have left them alone. On
                         the day officials came to inspect the bison,
                         the activists confronted them. After taking
                         photographs, the officials left without
                         accosting the bison.

Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 07:35:07 -0500
From: allen schubert <[e-mail]>
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Subject: (US) MN- Anti-fur Protesters Step Up Tactics
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from Associated Press http://wire.ap.org/
----------------------------------------
 11/29/1997 05:22 EST

 Anti-fur Protesters Step Up Tactics

 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Anti-fur activists locked themselves to awnings,
 bound themselves together and even manned a construction crane as part of
 their annual ``Fur Free Friday'' protest at stores across the country.

 The protest is staged every November on the day after Thanksgiving, but
 this year's marks a change -- it's no longer a one-day event. Activists
 promised a month's worth of protests lasting through the holiday season
 and said at least one, the crane occupation, could continue for days.

 At least 62 protesters were arrested Friday at demonstrations in San
 Francisco, Dallas, Minneapolis, Albany and Garden City, N.Y., Eatontown,
 N.J., Atlanta and Beverly Hills, according to the Animal Rights Direct
 Action Coalition.

 Police arrested 18 activists in Minneapolis on Friday following protests
 at the Nieman Marcus store downtown. Three people had chained themselves
 to an awning, and six others locked themselves together inside.

 ``I feel sorry for my fellow activists, who went through so much pain at
 the hands of police,'' said Dave Rolsky, a protester at a Nieman Marcus
 in Minneapolis. ``But I feel even sorrier for the millions of animals
 tortured to death at the hands of furriers who care for nothing more than
 money.''

 In San Francisco, five protesters climbed a crane at a Macy's
 construction site on Union Square at 5 a.m. Friday and unfurled a banner
 saying ``Fur Is Murder.''

 They planned to stay until at least one of two demands were met: That the
 city outlaws selling fur or that Macy's stop selling it on its own.

 ``We're trying to let people know that it's unacceptable killing animals
 for clothes,'' protester Nicole Brodsky, 25, said.

 On Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, seven protesters who linked arms inside
 metal pipes to blockade the Fendi store were separated by bolt cutters
 and arrested.

 One Neiman Marcus spokeswoman said the annual protest is annoying.

 ``We deal with this every year,'' said Cynthia Coleman. ``The customers
 get angry at the protesters. They don't get angry at the store.''
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 10:49:34 EST
From: JanaWilson <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: (US) HSUS Response to Oklahoma City Editorial
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This HSUS letter was in today's letter to the editor section of the
local Okla. City news.  This is a rare event for this paper to
allow a formal rebuttal to its series of anti-AR editorials:

                     Group Record Distorted

TO THE EDITOR:
  We expect our political adversaries-- trophy hunters, the fur
industry, puppy mill operators and others--to distort our record, or
even resort to outright lies, to perpetuate the status quo.  But we do
not expect credible newspapers like (this newspaper), even if they
disagree with us, to publish editorials that include unfounded and
blatantly inaccurate statements ("Metamorphosis," Nov.4).  In
attempting to argue that HSUS has metamorphosed into an extreme
group since the 1980s--even tho we have had the same two leaders
since the 1970s--(this newspaper) seems to have regurgitated the
pap advanced by some extreme animal industry groups.
  (This newspaper) inaccurately argued, among other things, that
the HSUS's agenda includes "prohibiting the use of animals for
research" and "elimination of dog breeding."  The latter point is
perfectly ludicrous.  The HSUS cherishes the bond between people
and their pets, and always has.  We encourage pet ownership, as
beneficial to both people and animals.  We abhor inhumane and
excessive breeding, characterized by puppy mills and campaign
strenuously against the tragedy of pet overpopulation.  On the matter
of animal research, we have never staked out an abolitionist position.
Rather, since the 1950s, we have pushed for the three Rs--reduction
in the no of animals used in science, replacement of animals
with non-animal models and refinement of techniques to eliminate pain
and suffering.
  (This newspaper) also stated that the HSUS wishes to stop "the
hunting of seals and whales" and the "raising of fur-bearing animals."
On these points, the paper is generally on the mark.  We unabashedly
oppose commerical sealing and whaling, and have been leaders in the
fight to halt the slaughter of marine animals.  Similarly, the HSUS
opposes the wearing of fur in our culture.
  In its editorial, (this newspaper) parrots the oft-repeated claim by our
political opponents, who wish we would cease our challenges to their
institutionalized abuses of animals, that the HSUS does not operate
animal shelters.  The HSUS never claimed to operate shelters,
although many of our members of our staff formerly ran shelters or
worked in them.  There are more than 6,000 shelters and humane
societies in the US, and these critically important community
institutions need support and assistance.  The HSUS trains thousands
of shelter workers a year, conducts on-site evaluations of facilities,
writes and publishes an award-winning magazine that brings valuable
information to them, and holds an animal exposition for shelter staff
that draws thousands.  The HSUS aids the local shelters most
effectively by providing these services, rather than directly operating
facilities.
  (This newspaper) claims to support animal welfare.  We hope then,
that the newspaper joins with the HSUS as it works with our members
and others to ban the blood sport of cockfighting in Oklahoma, one of
just 5 states in the country that still permits this practice.

                         (Signed)               Paul G. Irwin,
                                                    President, HSUS

                                                  For the animals,
                                                     Jana, OKC
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 11:15:08 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail]
Subject: (US) Oklahoma City Horse Racing Accident
Message-ID: <971129111507_1483790735@mrin38>


A/w with local OKC news:

Jockey Jo Hayes remained in critical, but stable condition late
Friday at a local OKC hospital following a spill earlier in the day
during the first race at OKC's Remington Park.  The accident
occurred when Hopefully a Winner, ridden by Bob Williams,
broke a leg and fell as the field reached the middle of the far
turn.  Hayes was unseated when her mount, Slewsational,
jumped the fallen horse and Williams.  Hayes, who is lives
in Okla., suffered facial lacerations and multiple fractures. The
exact fractures were not made public.  Friday marked her
39th birthday.
Williams suffered a fractured clavicle and was treated and
released from a metro area hospital.
Hopefully a Winner was euthanized and the other horse
escaped serious injury and was returned to her barn.
According to local TV news, the video of the accident is
not being released.

                                             For the Animals,

                                             Jana, OKC
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 11:17:40 -0500
From: Constance Young <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Pine Plains pigeon shoot protest
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Some of you have asked that I post a report of our protest Friday
outside Indian Mountain Lodge, which holds monthly pigeon shoots and was
to hold a "huge" one on Friday. Here it is:

About 30 protestors from three organizations showed up around 8:30 AM
outside Indian Mountain shooting preserve on route 199 in Pine Plains.
One plucky gal actually drove her car up the driveway and asked what
time the shoot was to start. She was asked to "get off the property."

We stood vigil on the County Road outside the hunting lodge (where all
kinds of other canned hunts are held every day of the week.)  Ann Muller
was there with a group from CASH (Committe to Abolish Sports Hunting)
and a group from the new local AR group AWARE (Alliance to Work for
Animal Rights and the Environment), which was formerly headed by Gloria
Stephenson in New York City, joined the protest.  The protest was
organized by Mid-Hudson Preservation Alliance, Inc. a Dutchess County
organization working to protect the area from assaults against the
environment.  They have been protesting these shoots for two years.

We have made progress, though.  The local papers have run many
editorials against the shoots, hunters regularly join our protests, and
both candidates for Town Supervisor office expressed outrage against the
pigeon shoots (but have stopped short of doing anything about them).

The Poughkeepsie Journal was there and had a nice article today, and
other local papers covered the protest.

We also were told that there were people with power and who are on our
side (can't tell you more) who were there undercover.  We shall see.

What you can do to help;  please write to The Town Board, Town Hall,
Route 199, Pine Plains, New York 12567 and tell them what you think
about pigeon shoots.  It embarasses them and maybe enough protest will
get them to do something (pass an ordinance against pigeon shoots;
introduce zoning in the town <we have none>), or do some gentle arm
twisting of the owner of the lodge, Lee Gray.

We will perservere, and we will win!!!     Constance Young

Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 15:15:08 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: FFF ARRESTS: NOW 63 TOTAL
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

You can add one more arrest to this total.  In Birmingham, Michigan, our Fur
Free Saturday protest resulted in one arrest.  Fortunately, that arrest was
of a person (possibly a Putting People First affiliate) leaving a furrier and
intentionally spilling a glass of pop all over the protesters.  He just
happened to do it right in front of a cop, who didn't take too kindly to his
supposed klutzyness.  Cheers went up when the fur supporter was handcuffed
and hauled off to jail.  God, it's great to see it happen to the other side.

Cheers!

Pat Dodson
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 19:05:02 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Season For Fur Rallies, Protests (NY)
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Season For Fur Rallies, Protests

Each side brings its message about the fur industry to Christmas-season
shoppers.
Published Nov. 29, 1997, in The Post-Standard.

By KARL TURNER And JEFF STAGE

About a dozen animal rights activists protested peacefully and silently
in front of Georgios Furs late Friday afternoon, shortly after more than
40 hunters and trappers rallied at the same site.

A confrontation between the two groups seemed possible early on as
hunting enthusiasts launched their preemptive protest at noon, hours
before the animal rights activists were scheduled to arrive.

Several of the hunters and trappers wore fur coats and fur hats to the
rally outside the store at 358 S. Salina St.

The animal rights activists, mostly members of the Animal Defense
League, avoided a confrontation with the hunters, however, by holding a
short protest 30 minutes after the hunters finished.

The Animal Defense League has held protests at Georgios on the day after
Thanksgiving for several years, in conjunction with the start of the
holiday shopping season. Past protests have been marked by clashes with
police and hunters and trappers.

Members of the Animal Defense League carried signs decrying the fur
industry. A planned mock funeral for the animals killed in the fur trade
was cancelled because of problems getting the casket to the site of the
protest, members said.

Destructive industry

"Fur trading is the most destructive industry in the western
hemisphere," said Bryan Pease, a sophomore at Cornell University and a
member of the Animal Defense League. "From its beginnings, it led to the
destruction and eradication of indigenous cultures."

Groups of hunters and trappers decided to hold their own rally last year
at Georgios, and they held another this year.

Members of the Independent Fur Harvesters of Central New York, Cortland
County Trappers Association and the Onondaga County Federation of
Sportsmen's Clubs carried signs that that read "America Founded on Fur,"
"Trapping: An American Heritage," "Fur-Ever" and "Take a Kid Hunting."

Al LaFrance, president of the 110-member Independent Fur Harvesters,
said his group was protesting to protect their rights to hunt, trap and
fish. He said they want to protect industries such as farming and
scientific research.

"This is not just a sportsmen's issue," said LaFrance, a professional
trapper who sported a beaver fur coat for the occasion.

Trappers targeted

LaFrance said animal-rights protesters target trappers because they are
the smallest group and easily portrayed as "villains."

LaFrance said hunting, trapping and fishing are all closely regulated by
enforcement organizations, such as the state Department of Conservation.


Most trappers are kept busy primarily by nuisance calls, usually
removing wanted or pesky animals like skunks and beavers, he said.

"New York has a big beaver population," said LaFrance, who noted that
beavers build dams that cause floods. "One of the main reasons is
because there are so few people doing any trapping anymore."

Other members of the pro-fur group came out to support George Politis,
the embattled owner of Georgios Furs.

"I'm here to support Georgios," said Dorothy Chambers of Parish. "This
is a legal business. There's no reason he cannot conduct his work."

In Skaneateles

In Skaneateles Friday, between 25 and 30 area fur trappers held a
protest from noon to 3 p.m. at the Fur Exchange.

Ed Hogan, regional director for the New York State Trappers Association,
said his organization and representatives from the River Bend Trappers,
Oswego County Trappers and the Independent Fur Harvesters of Central New
York had their own message.

"It was a pro-fur rally to encourage people to consider fur coats and
fur hats as Christmas gifts," Hogan said. "The trappers in Central New
York have been very active in trying to educate the public that this is
a renewable resource."

In April, the Fur Exchange was the target of vandals during a wave of
animal-rights protests in the area. Joel Capolongo of Clay pleaded
guilty to a misdemeanor charge in the incident and was sentenced to
perform 300 hours of community service.

Staff writer John Grau contributed to this report.
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 16:07:43 -0800 (PST)
From: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail]
Subject: HUNGER, THIRST STRIKES BY FFF PROTESTORS (US)
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URGENT NEWS ADVISORY
November 29, 1997

Contact: Activist Civil Liberties Committee [phone]





L.A. ANTI-FUR ACTIVISTS STAGE
HUNGER STRIKE; BAIL $50,000

     BEVERLY HILLS û Six anti-fur demonstrators -- including two medical doctors
-- arrested Friday after blocking the doors in a sit-in at a Rodeo Drive
furrier are refusing to eat, and some are refusing to drink any liquids,
while incarcerated.

     In all, 34 activists in San Francisco, Beverly Hills, Minneapolis, Long
Island, Atlanta and Eatonville, NJ are in jail and on hunger strikes as a
result of "Fur Free Friday" protests.

     Dr. Rich McLellan and Dr. Jerry Vlasak, both of Los Angeles, have decided
to go without water, in addition to hunger strike. They could suffer severe
kidney damage, and die with 48-72 hours if they continue.

     The "Beverly Hills Six" decided to hunger and thirst strike after Beverly
Hills police charged them with a felony for participating in the nonviolent
protest at Fendi Furs on Rodeo Drive Friday. Bail has been set at $50,000.

     "The charge is absurd, as is the bail. They are peaceful, harmed no one and
are all respectable members of the community. They are just opposed to the
killing of animals for fur," said Crescenzo Vellucci, executive director of
the Activist Civil Liberties Committee, a Sacramento-based criminal defense
organization. Most demonstrators are released with a promise to appear, and
no bail.

     "This is dangerous, but they believe their mistreatment is unconstitutional
and extreme, and have taken this step as part of a political statement,"
added Vellucci.

     At least 91 anti-fur protestors were arrested on "Fur Free Friday" across
the U.S., including: New York City (22), Minneapolis (17), Garden City NY
(13), San Francisco (12), Dallas (10), Beverly Hills (8), Albany (4),
Eatonville, NJ (2), Atlanta (2), Boston (1).

     There were demonstrations in about 100 U.S. cities against the sale of fur.
Protestors are opposed to the killing, by neck-breaking, anal-electrocution
and suffocation, of 40 million animals a year to make fur garments.
-30-


activists civil liberties committee
PO Box 19515, Sacramento, CA 95819 [phone] Fax: [phone]

Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 20:11:42 -0500
From: "Leslie Lindemann" <[e-mail]>
To: "AR-news postings" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Gateway2000 selling lambskin jackets
Message-ID: <19971130011112.AAA6629@oemcomputer>
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I received a Gateway2000 catalogue today, and was very angry to see a
"cow-spotted",  lambskin jacket for sale among all their other "cow-spot"
junk.  Their website is http://www.spotshop.com.  I didn't see the jacket
on the website, but it is in the mail-order catalogue.
Please take a minute to go the the website, email them, and tell them you'd
like to be able to buy a computer without supporting a company that sells
chopped up animals.

Thanks
Leslie


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