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...track led directly up the coast of Norway -- and on June 17, into the path of the Ann Brita. A few minutes and a well-placed harpoon later, the minke's destiny abruptly changed course. Instead of reaching the Arctic, she ended up on an auction block in the Norwegian port of Svolvaer, sold to the highest bidder for $2.50 a lb. This minke was the first of 160 hauled in by Norway this season for commercial sale. Each of these catches violated the worldwide ban on for-profit hunting established by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in 1986. (More...
Cries of "Save the whales!" are once again echoing around the globe. Several environmental groups have sponsored newspaper ads urging Congress to bar Norwegian seafood from American markets, and some U.S. travel agencies are faxing letters to Norway, warning that travelers will shun the fjords in the future. The source of their wrath: Norway's threat to resume commercial hunting of minke whales, which its Cabinet is expected to act on this week...
...their prowhaling bluster, Japan and Norway are well aware of how many people romanticize whales as sentient creatures that should be spared the horror of harpooning. A recent poll found that 52% of Norwegians worried about international boycotts should the country resume commercial whaling. Says Richard Fuglsang, managing director of the sleeping-bag company Ajungilak: "Foreign sports-equipment dealers tell us straight out that they dare not sell Norwegian goods...
Last year's Commencement speaker, Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, was a pro-abortion activist whose extreme views were offensive to many Harvard students, but we on the Right were mature enough not even to consider shouting her down...
...courts have ruled that the police are not obligate to protect the public, and the police have often been unable to do so. The Los Angeles riot, the murder of a Norwegian student at M.I.T. and the recent spate of violent "stalking" crimes against women in Massachusetts all show that the police are stretched thin in this era of tight budgets and increasing drug-related violence. We Harvard students are fortunate to have two effective police departments patrolling the campus...