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...squirrels, Chernoff said, is "to capture as many of them as possible and run serological tests." He warned that "even if as few as one per cent of the squirrels are infected in all likelihood the entire squirrel population in the Yard will have to be exterminated with poisoned bait." State public health officials have already been notified of the danger...
...quality audit," which he hopes will raise a lot more money. Revenue agents used to go over large numbers of returns, generally stopped auditing when they found one violation or error. But the IRS believes that some taxpayers, particularly businessmen, throw in an easy-to-spot violation as bait to get the audit over with while hiding the really important evasion...
...campaign to woo West Germany into bilateral political talks, Moscow dangles the bait of profitable trade agreements. Even without additional deals, reported Bonn last week, West German trade with the Soviet bloc last year topped $1 billion-13% higher than in 1960. (U.S.-German trade last year: about $2.3 billion.) Most of the exchange with Moscow consisted of West German machinery and semifinished metal goods for Soviet petroleum products and commercial gold used in jewelry. A third major category of Russian exports is foodstuffs, but, said one Bonn official last week: "There's a limit to how much caviar...
...picture window overlooking the Rhine, Ambassador Andrei Smirnov wore a thoughtful look as he toyed with his vodka glass. Before him sat his West German guests-editors, members of the Bundestag, an official from the government press office. Moscow's new policy, pleaded Smirnov, is not meant as "bait," or as "mere propaganda." The "highest personality in the Soviet Union" (Nikita Khrushchev) is behind this idea: the Soviet Union and West Germany must "normalize" their relations. Russia is no longer disposed to deal only with the U.S., Britain and France as a group in search of a German settlement...
...feeling (as his brother, the logodaedalist novelist Lawrence Durrell, might have put it) both phthisic and etiolated. But before long Durrell was again at peace, sleeping under his Land Rover, tormenting a 20-ft.-long bull sea elephant into a cinema-genic rage, using his own big toe as bait to lure a rare vampire bat. The author is a zoophile who tired several years ago of catching animals for other people and, as he related in A Zoo in My Luggage, set about establishing his own zoo on the Channel Island of Jersey...