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Reformers are taking particular aim at baiting--using food to lure game into an ambush. With black bears, the bait station is typically set deep in the woods; fruit, pastry and livestock carcasses are placed in a large barrel or piled on the ground. Defenders of baiting point to the long hours and exhausting effort it takes to stalk and kill a bear. But critics like Colorado bear biologist Tom Beck ask, "How fulfilling is it to shoot a bear with its head in a barrel of jelly-filled doughnuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNTING'S BAD SPORTS | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

...have ever had in the history of this country a special-interest Administration that was bought and paid for lock, stock and barrel by selfish interests, it's [this] Administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN NOTEBOOK | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

...Palestinian police proved beyond a doubt that when push comes to shove, or as the case may be, when a slingshot becomes a well-directed gun barrel, they are not impartial enforcers of the peace process; their allegiance to the Palestinian cause takes priority over this process. This is not the first instance of the armed Palestinian forces' lack of resolve or so-called "inability" to restrain the enemies of peace. Original fears that the Palestinian security forces were not adequately equipped to deal with their own extremists have been substituted for the more worrisome concern that they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reality Sets In for "Peace Process" | 10/2/1996 | See Source »

...disgusting?" The only break in Ayres' intensity occurred in the scene when George shoots Martha with what seems at first to be a shotgun, but releases only an umbrella; because of prop difficulties, Ayres had to shake the gun and quickly urge the gag out of the barrel--not quite the passionate moment it was supposed...

Author: By Lisa K. Pinsley, | Title: BCA's Woolf: Be Afraid; Be Very Afraid | 9/19/1996 | See Source »

...same time, he has a history of interfering with the presidencies of others. (After helping overthrow a military dictatorship in 1987, he has now participated in two coups.) The head of the largest Hutu political party called on members to reject Buyoya's "return by the barrel of the gun" and appealed to the international community to restore democracy. But the Clinton Administration has drawn the line at logistical support for an international peacekeeping force. TIME's Andrew Purvis says only international military intervention would make a difference: "So long as Hutu and Tutsi are left to themselves, the killing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tutsis Take Over | 7/27/1996 | See Source »

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