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...migratory birds. From the tiny African nation of Burundi, which has a known elephant population of one, hundreds of tons of ivory are shipped each year. The tusks, say conservationists, have probably been smuggled in from Tanzania, Rwanda or Zaïre, where virtually all ivory export is forbidden...
...released a report. The network said that it stood by the substance of its broadcast but conceded that one source who supported the documentary's thesis had been allowed to rehearse his interview and look at tapes of other interviews before being questioned. These and other practices are forbidden under CBS News guidelines. Crile was later suspended...
...later. The giant billboards that once displayed Mao's quotations now bear gaudy advertisements for cameras, calculators and computers. The farming communes of the countryside, that ubiquitous trademark of the Maoist republic, have in effect been dismantled. Like the imposing façade of the main gate to Peking's Forbidden City, which is shrouded by scaffolding, all China is undergoing a radical facelift...
...originally allowed Genentech's junior stock because, like other equities, it involved some risk on the employee's part. If the company failed to meet its performance goals, the employee would be forbidden to convert the junior stock to common shares. Thus the worker would make no money on the deal. But some firms set standards so low that their junior-stock plans became giveaways. Admits Palo Alto Attorney Lee Benton, a proponent of the stock: "Some companies took it further than it was ever intended...
...sensitive El Aguacate military base. The American soldiers involved with Granadero I are beginning to complain that CIA personnel have, in the words of one U.S. Army officer, "the run of the country," including regular military facilities, and can operate in border areas where the Army men are forbidden to travel...