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...line, code-named Topaz, have a four-cylinder engine, front-wheel drive and a sloping hood. They are designed to compete head-on with the Chrysler K-cars, the Dodge Aries and Plymouth Reliant, and the General Motors X-body models: the Chevrolet Citation, Pontiac Phoenix, Oldsmobile Omega and Buick Skylark...
Within the Kirkland coalition, the phalanxes of the National Wildlife Federation rub elbows with those of the National Low Income Housing Coalition, the Association for the Advancement of Psychology, the Center for Community Change, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, and Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. Then, too, there is the Food Research and Action Center, whose troops tramped up to the Hill to protest the proposed food-stamp cuts. FRAC, employing 25 lawyers, technicians and persuaders, gets two-thirds of its million-dollar budget from the Federal Government it is now attacking. Uncle Sam is once again caught beating...
Some 850 Bushmen are organized into a separate battalion of the South West Africa Territory Force headquartered at Omega, a base camp in Namibia's northeastern Caprivi Strip. Assigned on a rotating basis to South African fighting units, the traditionally unwarlike Bushmen have distinguished themselves in combat. Five have been killed; one was posthumously awarded the Honoris Crux, one of the highest military decorations. Their tracking skills have introduced a new element to the counterinsurgency tactics. "They have fantastic eyesight," says a South African lieutenant, "and they can navigate in the bush without a compass or map." The Bushmen...
...Poor Omega. Once the pride of the Brookfield (Ill.) Zoo, he is now an outcast. Rejected by two female companions, the hefty 450-lb. gorilla sits alone in his cage, forlornly munching on alfalfa or taking a lackadaisical swing on the rubber tire hanging from his ceiling. Omega's problem is that he is sterile...
Along with chimpanzees and orangutans, gorillas are man's closest kin. They are also remarkably susceptible to human ailments, including mumps, measles, even ordinary colds; and although Omega has never seemed seriously ill, his sperm count is now nil. No one is sure why. It could be his weight (obesity can interfere with gorilla lovemaking); it could also be years of sexual inactivity. Whatever the reason, says Primate Curator Benjamin Beck, Omega's condition is all too common among gorillas in captivity, and that has scientists worried...