Word: claiming
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...wolf with a healthy appetite for mice, rabbits and, according to the wool growers, lambs. Since 1972, when the Environmental Protection Agency flatly banned the most effective coyote poisons - Compound 1080 (monofluoride acetate) and the M44 (a spring-loaded tube containing sodium cyanide)-sheepmen have been howling loudly. They claim that a burgeoning coyote population is threatening their already risky business (which operates on a 2% profit margin) with ruin. They have begun attaching bumper stickers to their automobiles with legends like: EAT AMERICAN LAMB. 10 MILLION COYOTES CAN'T BE WRONG...
Environmentalists sharply dispute the sheep ranchers' claim that the coyotes are now slaughtering 800,000 lambs per year. Says National Audubon Society President Elvis J. Stahr: "The figures ... are unreliable, unscientific and quite possibly self-serving. Poisons simply are not the answer to the coyote problem. If they were, the problem should no longer exist." Despite its preference for aerial shooting and trapping, however, the EPA agreed last month to permit the use of the M44 on private land. Since roughly 12 million sheep graze at least part of the time on federal land, wool growers soon may seek...
Thus Krogh told Wallace that Dean had confided to him on March 20 that "the President is being badly served. He just doesn't know what's been going on." To Krogh, this was inconsistent with Dean's claim that Nixon had been aware of the cover-up as early as September. Actually, Dean had only contended that Nixon had known about specific parts of the cover-up earlier than March 21. This knowledge did not necessarily include the precise involvement of his various political and White House aides, nor the legal ramifications...
...result of the meeting, Crooks appointed two white students to the program's 18-member admissions committee, and members of the poor whites' group recruited white applicants in Kentucky and Chicago. The two white students never served on the admissions committee; they claim that Crooks excluded them from the committee, but Crooks says they never came to meetings. The committee accepted only one white student, a Boston welfare-mother, to the program...
...bigger tankers. Others predict that the "Nasser plan," calling for improvements to be carried out in two four-year stages under 40% foreign financing, will pay off with annual revenues from tolls of $600 million, compared with a pre-1967 income of $250 million a year. Egyptian officials claim that they will have no trouble raising the capital if they go ahead with the project. "We are already getting offers," says a Canal Authority executive...