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Bush's romance with the right has shaped his approach to foreign policy. The President dismissed Democratic complaints that he has been slow to respond to the dramatic changes taking place in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union with the comment, "I don't want to do anything dumb." That...
A storage room in Kenya's Tsavo National Park, where poaching has been rampant, bears witness to this carnage. Tiny bloodstained tusks from infant elephants fill an entire shelf. Each is the length of a candle. They come from three-four- and five-year-olds who fell before a rain...
Repeated attempts to control the ivory trade have failed. The current system, set up under CITES in 1986, requires ivory-producing nations to adopt export quotas intended to safeguard existing elephant populations. In addition, each tusk in international trade must be covered by an export permit and marked with a...
In recent months the trade has been in retreat. Responding to growing public indignation, many industrialized nations have declared a moratorium on ivory imports. Among them: the U.S., France, West Germany, England, Canada and Australia. Japan and Hong Kong, the centers of the trade, followed suit. In Africa nations have...
Among those African nations whose herds have been hardest hit are Tanzania and Kenya. They lead the call for a worldwide ban, and are joined by conservation groups, including the World Wildlife Fund and Wildlife Conservation International. They argue that it will take decades for elephant herds to begin to...