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These efforts, however, have not silenced critics. Says Ben White of the activist group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, whose members take to the seas to disrupt whale and dolphin captures: "Yes, captive dolphins educate, but it's bad education. It tells people it is O.K. to keep these animals and make them do tricks...
Paramount declined to say how much it had paid for the acquisition, but Carlton's 1988 annual report put revenues for the production company at $95 million. "The Zenith acquisition represents our most significant entry into the international market," said Mel Harris, president of Paramount's Television Group. "By aligning ourselves with the United Kingdom's major independent producer, we are positioning ourselves for the 1990s and 1992, when Europe's trade barriers fall...
...with unresponsive and evasive officials, their early efforts to lobby for improved airline safety quickly hardened into demands for the British, German and U.S. governments to disclose what they know about the bombing. Bert Ammerman, a high school assistant principal who lost his brother Tom and now heads a group called Victims of Pan Am Flight 103, calls Washington a "cesspool of unaccountability." After months of lobbying Congress and a meeting with President Bush, the families finally persuaded the Administration to establish a Commission on Aviation Security and Terrorism, which began hearings last week...
Earlier this month, Ammerman accompanied a six-member delegation of American and British families to West Germany to quiz investigators and government officials on terrorist links to Flight 103. The group emerged from three days of talks with little new information. But they left the Germans with the clear impression that their persistence will not fade...
...biggest vote getter, as expected, was the South West African People's Organization, or SWAPO, the Marxist-led group that conducted a 23-year guerrilla war for independence. But SWAPO won only 57% of the vote and 41 seats, far short of the 85% prediction by Sam Nujoma, 60, the group's leader, or of the 67% that would have let SWAPO shape the constitution...