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This year Massachusetts voters have the chance to remove these membership requirements for the Fisheries and Wildlife Board and to ban two cruel methods of hunting and trapping animals. Question One, the only referendum question on this year's ballot, would change current law in three ways: It would abolish the requirement that five of the seven board seats go to hunters, ban steel jaw and padded leghold traps, and prohibit the use of dogs in hunting bears or bobcats, with some exceptions...
...there was Dole last week, running more or less for Governor of California. Energetic, pugnacious, he hit the ground in Riverside and Glendale to cheer on the state ballot initiative that would ban affirmative action. With California handling about half the nation's illegal aliens, he slammed Clinton for making changes in the new immigration law to bar states from denying medical assistance to illegals with aids. Dole promised more border guards along the highway that runs south from San Diego into Tijuana. If he didn't really feel inspired, he wasn't half bad at pretending...
That has not been the case in Colorado, which voted to ban all three practices in 1992. Nuisance-bear reports are up, but that is blamed largely on the growth of the human population and weather conditions, especially drought. Last year was Colorado's best bear-killing season since 1989. All the more reason, say advocates, to push for reforms. "If we all want to be hunting in 40 years," warns Fritchman, "we'd better do away with practices that are now viewed as repugnant...
...hear the Thomasson appeal, Clinton administration justified the policy in the name of military effectiveness. Included was a statement by former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin L. Powell to the effect that "the cohesion and well-being of the force" would be jeopardized should the ban be lifted...
...former United Nations interpreter, I remember the lengthy preliminary negotiations of a chemical-weapons-ban treaty at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva. Month after month and year after year, U.S. and U.S.S.R. chemical-weapons specialists endlessly discussed modalities of destruction of the chemical weapons stockpiled by both superpowers. What was obvious to me as a layperson was the extreme difficulty, complexity and danger involved in destroying chemical weapons. Safe destruction could take place only in complex and specialized installations...