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Investigators were stumped until midweek, when something called the Earth Liberation Front claimed responsibility. A fax purporting to be from the ELF said the group had sponsored what was probably history's costliest ecoterrorist strike "on behalf of the lynx," a spike-eared wildcat all but gone from the state. It went on, "This action is just a warning...For your safety and convenience, we strongly advise skiers to choose other destinations...
...there is gaming. This often obsessivepastime involves role-playing and strategygames--essentially any game where players say thewords "elf" or "battalion of nuclear death" morethan once. It's what attracted a lot of HRSFAmembers to the group...
...addition to Nike, Columbia/HCA and Occidental Petroleum, Harvard invests in Elf Aquitaine, TRW, Tyson Foods and American Electric Power, companies which the Multinational Monitor alleges are involved in improprieties including bribery, international coups or maintaining substandard working conditions...
Dumas's troubles started a year ago when Paris-based judges Eva Joly and Laurence Vichnievsky began looking into the exorbitant commissions paid by Elf in conjunction with the $2.7 billion sale of six French frigates to Taiwan in 1991. Elf, then state owned, had no official involvement in the sale of the vessels. But an investigation into complaints of unjustified commissions soon led to Elf lobbyist Deviers-Joncour, who admitted that the oil company had paid her some $10 million to promote the sale. Her mission was to persuade Dumas to reverse his opposition to the deal...
...claims were potentially devastating for Dumas, who had allegedly intervened to get her a $120,000-a-year sinecure at Elf in 1989 and had taken her along with him on numerous official, and unofficial, trips abroad. It did not help matters that Dumas had also allowed his lady friend to wine and dine him--and buy him the now infamous hand-made boots--on an Elf credit card that she used to the tune of $40,000 a month...