Word: iwc
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...killing of this whale was supposed to have ended after this year's spring hunt by order of the 40-member International Whaling Commission (IWC). But Japan's commercial fleet is still slaughtering sperm whales. And the U.S. Government, to the anguish of environmental groups, is allowing Japan to continue...
Environmentalists are outraged by the Administration's compromise. "It's an absolute sellout," says Craig Van Note, executive vice president of a Washington-based consortium of animal-welfare groups. Thomas Garrett, the head of the U.S. delegation to the IWC's 1981 meeting, agrees. "What the Administration is actually doing is caving in to Japanese pressure," he says. "The U.S. has not won a promise from Japan to end commercial whaling and may not even have a deal to limit sperm whaling." Conservation groups have sent U.S. Secretary of Commerce Malcolm Baldrige a letter documenting Japanese whale...
...occasion was the annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in the English seaside resort of Brighton. On the street, save-the-whales demonstrators waved placards, chanted slogans and even floated a 110-ft. inflatable whale named Big Flo. Inside the Victorian-style Brighton Metropole Hotel, the delegates from 31 member nations pondered the fate of the leviathans. The commission, formed after World War II to regulate whaling, has been setting annual quotas ever since. For this season the permissible commercial take had dwindled to 13,851 whales, 80% of them small minkes. That was less than a third...