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From nowhere, though it might have been the flies, the word fire was, with a howl, repeated. The house lights came swiftly up. Enderby now saw, very rawly revealed, real seated people ready to unseat themselves, a lot of them, uneasily looking for the source of the cry or the source of the referent of the cry. Fire. 'Stay where you are, damn it,' Enderby yelled, as people began to panic their way into the aisles ... the beginning of a dangerous pushing out ... 'Blast it. Back, you stupid buggers.' And, to the gawping orchestra, 'Play...
...there have been no simple answers. In recent years, a better understanding of lupine behavior has resulted in a more sympathetic public image of the wolf. Wildlife biologists see them not as lawless, marauding killers, but as highly intelligent social creatures that are monogamous, dote on their young and howl complex messages. Still, in Minnesota's North Country, Canis lupus remains the Big Bad Wolf. Even after the Department of the Interior placed the Eastern timber wolf on the endangered species list in 1973, poaching continued at the rate of about 250 animals a year. Farmers complained...
Environmental groups, including an organization called HOWL (Help Our Wolves Live), filed suit in U.S. district court challenging the Interior Department's decision. Game officials replied that by making the wolf a legitimate trophy animal again, its status would be enhanced among its human foes and, therefore, it would be regarded more highly and thus protected. Earlier this month, Judge Miles Lord vigorously rejected this convoluted argument. Said he: "The wolf has long been depicted in story and song as a mysterious menace to man's existence . . . But Congress has now mandated that each person who would slay...
...addition, the R.D.F. units that could be dispatched to the Middle East are also earmarked to reinforce NATO during a European crisis. European allies would surely howl that they could not be spared, since a Middle East war might spill over into Europe. Former Secretary of Defense Harold Brown warns that even in relatively minor trouble areas like Lebanon, prolonged deployments "are manageable over a period of months-but if they go on for a year or more, they could reduce our ability to deal with a major contingency...
...tarnishing the high moral standard, based on respect for national sovereignty and self-determination, that distinguishes its conduct in the world from that of its Soviet adversary. Indeed, cries of outrage rang forth from Latin America, Western Europe and even the chambers of Congress-not to mention the predictable howl from Moscow, where TASS called Reagan "a modern Napoleon," devoid of conscience and simpleminded. By embroiling itself more deeply in the turbulent situation in Lebanon, the U.S. risks becoming a combatant rather than a peacemaker in the endless strife there. "Our forces in Lebanon are now not a deterrent, they...