Word: england
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...road to Indianapolis and the national championship finally begins in earnest this weekend for the Harvard men's water polo team. And the road begins in the Crimson's own backyard with a New England League invitational at Blodgett Pool...
Alford, who received his undergraduate degree from Amherst College, has had an unusually versatile career. The 40-year-old professor has gone from reporting in England for The Boston Globe to practicing law in Washington, D.C., to teaching law at UCLA...
...women on the Harvard squad will be competing next Saturday in the Women's New England Team Reacing Championships. For the men, Bowers has qualified for next weekend's New England Single Handed Championships...
...under CITES in 1986, requires ivory-producing nations to adopt export quotas intended to safeguard existing elephant populations. In addition, each tusk in international trade must be covered by an export permit and marked with a unique serial number, which is recorded in a computer in Cambridge, England. Theoretically, that number allows nations to trace the tusk as it passes from country to country in trade. But many quotas have been ill-considered or ignored, falsified export documents have been discovered in numerous nations, and corrupt officials in collusion with traders continue to skirt the system...
...recent months the trade has been in retreat. Responding to growing public indignation, many industrialized nations have declared a moratorium on ivory imports. Among them: the U.S., France, West Germany, England, Canada and Australia. Japan and Hong Kong, the centers of the trade, followed suit. In Africa nations have declared war on the poachers. Thousands have been arrested, scores killed and tons of illicit tusks seized. Most significant of all, consumers are beginning to understand the link between their ivory baubles and trinkets and the mutilated carcasses from which they came. If regulation fails, consumer revulsion to ivory...