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...example of this discussion of similarities and connection between the two countries, Papandreou spoke of the three rounds of bilateral talks he held with his counterpart in Turkey, Ismail Cem, since June. He put this accomplishment in the context of Turkey's contentious entry into the European Union (EU). "Turkey should be part of Europe if we have any hope of better relations," Papandreou said. This is an about-face from Greece's traditional opposition to Turkey's inclusion in the EU. He explains how rewarding the prospect of joining the EU has been for Greece...
Lidholm began producing the caskets this year for the Swedish market, where he has sold about 1,000 of them. This fall a Fort Lauderdale cemetery operator, Cem-A-Care of Florida, started importing them into the U.S. They will sell for $125, as compared with about $1,250 for a conventional wood or metal casket. Cem-A-Care hopes to market 7,500 of the cardboard models next year. Florida funeral directors, however, are opposed to the cardboard caskets because they could cause a drop in their profits on a burial...
...story began last June when the U.S. Department of Agriculture began picking up reports of CEM afflicting breeding, first in France, then in Ireland and England. The disease, which can also be transmitted by handlers, makes it difficult for a mare to conceive and carry a foal for the full eleven-month term. Still, neither the British nor the Irish made too much of the malady when the USDA inquired. Neither did the French. According to Ralph Knowles, the department's chief staff veterinarian, the French told the U.S. that the sickness was not highly contagious and that they...
...Northern Dancer. Just before the deadline, Spendthrift Farm, stud managers of Nashua and Majestic Prince, flew in the stallion Caro from France. Both horses arrived with French certificates of health and passed the standard USDA tests. Moreover, both Caro and Lyphard were cleared by a specific test for CEM conducted in midwinter by the anxious USDA, which feared that some horses imported before the embargo might have been infected...
Even so, when CEM showed up in Kentucky in early March-the first outbreak of the disease ever in the U.S.-it was quickly found in Caro and Lyphard. A frantic search also detected CEM in three other stallions at Gainesway and 21 mares on various other farms. The state banned any movement of horses from one Kentucky farm to another and stopped all shipments of horses out of state. Gainesway Farm's John Gaines and Spendthrift Owner Brownell Combs II shut down breeding operations altogether. Since he has 33 stallions, valued at $57 million, Combs was losing hundreds...