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...logical reason to pick on the bison to shoot and slaughter," Babbitt told reporters. To combat brucellosis, a disease found in bison that causes abortions, infertility and reduced milk production when transmitted to cattle, Montana officials are permitted to shoot any buffalo that wander outside of the park. Babbit advocates a different approach in the fight against brucellosis: more research, less guns. Specifically, the Interior Secretary has asked the National Academy of Sciences to file a report on the extent of brucellosis infection, the chances for developing a vaccine program and the nature of disease transmission between buffalo and cattle...
Other prominent contenders with Harvard affiliations include Boston Mayor Raymond L. Flynn, for Housing and Urban Development; civil rights lawyer Vernon E. Jordan Jr., for Attorney General; former San Antonio Mayor Henry G. Cisneros, for Transportation; former Arizona Gov. Bruce E. Babbit, for Secretary of Interior; former Vermont Governor Madeleine Kunin, for the Environmental Protection Agency; and economist and Brookings Institute member Alice M. Riviln, for the Office of Management and Budget...
...addition, Babbit says, the recession may force the university to tighten its budget. Just this fall, in fact, Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, citing economic malaise, decided to trim its budget by up to 6 percent in many departments...
...think Brown and everybody else... will have to restrict their programs," Babbit says...
...Brown, Babbit says he is unsure about what the effect of the war might be. He points to the improved stock market as a short-term positive result, but his greatest concern is how the conflict might affect the economy in the long...