Word: antiwolf
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...Representative Wayne Owens, a Utah Democrat, has 76 cosponsors for a bill calling for wolf reintroduction, but its chances are dodgy unless lawmakers from the Yellowstone states change their minds. This may happen; polls show that voters favor the idea. Wyoming Republican Senator Alan Simpson, once an antiwolf diehard, talked like a moderate at a recent hearing on Owens' bill and says only, "Let's take care of grizzlies first." He means get the bears off the endangered species list and out from under federal protection, so they can be shot beyond park boundaries...
...dogs and coyotes. Blaming the wolf for every kill, she argues, is almost "a psychological need." Says she, with just a touch of hyperbole: "The wolf is an intelligent animal that groups together and does just what a hunter does when he gets together with his pals." Bowing to antiwolf passions, Interior authorities last summer announced a limited wolf-trapping season in which up to 160 animals a year could be taken in farming areas...
...chewing. They could not talk to a man "without permission." They were surrounded at all times by a massed armada of gimlet-eyed chaperons, including 20 of their mamas, and a special platoon of Atlantic City matrons, hand-picked for their motherliness. Six well-armed Atlantic City cops, on "antiwolf patrol" under Acting Sergeant Robert Silvagni, flanked the girls wherever they went...
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