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...Department of the Interior placed the Eastern timber wolf on the endangered species list in 1973, poaching continued at the rate of about 250 animals a year. Farmers complained of a wolf explosion and charged that the animals were ravaging cattle and other livestock. Says Wildlife Educator Karlyn Atkinson Berg of Bovey, Minn., who is known as the "Wolf Lady" for her work with the animals: "Up here, the right to hunt wolves is considered as sacred as motherhood and apple...
...solution, according to most experts, is to stress the development of agriculture. Elliot Berg, who was coordinator of the African Strategy Review Group for a 1981 World Bank report, argues, "No continent or region or country is going to modernize itself and develop its resources unless it begins with agriculture." The problem, says the World Bank report, is not financing alone. It estimates that aid earmarked for agricultural projects in sub-Saharan Africa totaled some $5 billion between 1973 and 1980. Berg holds Western governments partly responsible for approving expensive and inappropriate projects in the first place...
...Costume Institute in the bowels of the Metropolitan Museum, he was stopped by a security guard and meekly signed in to see his own show. As the frantic week of preparation went on, he was coaxed one way by Diana Vreeland, the other by his hectoring partner, Pierre Bergé. Saint Laurent did his best, moving as if in a daze...
Saint Laurent is deeply devoted to his professional "family," which includes Bergé, his partner in private as well as business life; Loulou Klossowski, an associate who is particularly gifted at choosing accessories; and a few longtime assistants. Saint Laurent blames his depression on ambition and precocious success. Before leaving for New York City, he spoke with TIME Correspondent William Blaylock in his Left Bank mansion. "I never had an adolescence," he said. "I became famous right away, and being shy, I found it difficult to get involved with others. Suffering is a necessary part of the creative process...
...something that can happen anywhere, and it just happened to happen here," Berg said. "We never like to have visitors treated that...