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Last week Japan announced that it would sharply curtail one of its most controversial practices: the use of drift nets. These enormous expanses of nylon mesh, which fan out for miles behind trawlers, are generally intended to catch squid and tuna, but they also indiscriminately trap and kill large numbers of other fish, seabirds, porpoises and other marine mammals. Japanese officials said they would reduce the drift-net fleet in the South Pacific to 20 ships, the same number that worked the area in the 1987-88 season. This season the fleet had grown to at least 60 boats...
...sympathetic to our goals and ideas. For our purposes, this preaching to the converted has much less value than when less sympathetic people read a Perspective because we made the effort to bring it to their door. If we wanted merely to preach to liberals, we might as well curtail our Eliot House distribution and plow the surplus into Adams House. A similar kind of reasoning applies all the more to the conservative Salient, which can count on much less campus sympathy than Perspective. It is the people who will not normally take a Perspective from a rack that...
Morgan was granted custody of Hilary, and Foretich obtained liberal visitation rights, but squabbling over the child continued after their divorce. The case was transferred to Dixon's jurisdiction in November 1985; subsequently, Morgan three times charged Foretich with sexually abusing their daughter and demanded that the court curtail his visits. Each time, Dixon ruled that Morgan's proofs were "inconclusive." She and her attorneys complain that he refused to allow testimony that corroborated the charges...
...sick of people not being able to tell us apart," says Mary, whose new hairstyle has done much to curtail the confusion this year. "Now people are starting to treat us like two separate people instead of two halves of a whole...
...resolution did not mark the council's first stand on HUCTW. Only the spring before, the body endorsed the union's goals. But the precedent did not curtail opposition from representatives last fall who felt strongly that the council should not address issues which did not directly affect students...