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...ordinance extends the existing federal and state guidelines to include all nonhuman vertebrates and requires all research institutions to set up animal care and use committees with the power to review and halt experiments. It also sets up a citywide commissioner of laboratory animals to conduct regular inspections of research facilities...
...ordinance extends the existing federal and state guidelines to include all nonhuman vertebrates and requires all research institutions to set up animal care and use committees with the power to review and halt experiments. It also sets up a citywide commissioner of laboratory animals to conduct regular inspections of research facilities...
Guderian's tanks raced up the coast, seized Boulogne, seized Calais, neared Dunkirk, then were ordered to halt. Guderian protested but was told that it was Hitler's personal order, an important miscalculation that has never been fully explained. "The Fuhrer is terribly nervous," Chief of Staff Franz Halder wrote in his diary. "Frightened by his own success, he is afraid to take any chance and so would rather pull the reins...
...could have happened to anybody, anytime, but for Tadeusz Mazowiecki the moment was rich with irony. The tall Solidarity official had just wound up meetings with President Jaruzelski and Jozef Cardinal Glemp last week when his car sputtered to a halt. When questioned by reporters about the difficulties he would face as Poland's new Prime Minister, Mazowiecki answered, "My biggest problem is that...
Western leaders are trying to halt the slaughter through international pressure on Assad. The Syrian President does not wish to offend the West when his country sorely needs economic help. Nor can Assad calculate Israel's or Iraq's response to an assault by his troops that would amount to Syrian control of Lebanon...