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Bush has also allowed the right to veto some appointments. Two weeks ago, conservatives torpedoed M. Caldwell Butler, the White House's tentative choice to be chairman of the Legal Services Corporation. But Butler's future dimmed when the former Virginia Congressman told a group of conservatives that he would not stop a Legal Services lawyer from suing a hospital that refused to provide a Medicaid abortion. The group complained to chief of staff John Sununu, who backed away from the nomination...
...wild. They and their wealthy customers do not understand -- or choose not to -- the high cost of this trade. They do not see the herds mowed down by automatic assault rifles, the tusks frantically hacked from the skulls and the orphaned and wounded elephants left to die. Ten years ago, 1.3 million elephants pressed the earth of Africa. Today there are perhaps...
...truck carrying $2 million worth of illicit tusks and rhino horns was fined a mere $2,613 by Botswa officials last year. His cargo was said to be bound for a South African firm with Hong Kong connections. Despite crackdowns, the poachers are undaunted. Just two weeks ago, in a predawn raid on a farm, Namibian officials seized 980 tusks...
Only once has Kitagawa been grazed by the ivory scandals of Africa. That was four years ago, when he paid millions for 30 tons of ivory bearing Ugandan documents. The papers were false. Kitagawa says he believed the documents were valid and trusted the ivory's seller, whose name he no longer remembers. There is no evidence that Kitagawa violated any laws, but the rules allowed him to purchase ivory that had been confiscated or whose origins in Africa were lost in the myriad transactions between that continent and Japan. Under "country of origin," some of the export permits...
...bathrooms, kitchens, garages, you name it -- stacked with ivory to the roof." But Burundi did not keep its promise to get out of the business; instead it accumulated another 90 tons. Says Joe Yovino, former head of the CITES ivory unit: "No question, we got snookered." Yet four months ago, the CITES secretariat agreed to arrange for the sale of about 28 tons that had been seized by Burundi authorities. Jacques Berney, the deputy secretary-general of CITES, says he is convinced that the new Burundi government, which came to power in a 1987 coup, is sincere about keeping...