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Many Harvard researchers fear repeal of the pound seizure law is the first step in an outright ban on the use of animals in research experiments. This year, bills to repeal pound seizure are being heard in the Massachusetts legislature, in both the Committee on Natural Resources and the Committee on Counties. Last year the Committee on Counties voted to repeal pound seizure but the proposal was defeated in the Senate Ways and Means Committee. Last year, New York repealed its version of the pound seizure law, the Metcalf-Hatch...
Your coverage of the recent tragic incident at the Spanish embassy in Guatemala City, titled "Outright Murder" [Feb. 11], leaves much to be desired...
...week's end active mass resistance appeared to have been suppressed. But Soviet forces in the major cities remained on full alert as rebel leaders threatened a new round of guerrilla attacks. Rumors of an outright reign of terror, with summary executions of suspected Muslim instigators, seemed certain to compound seething popular resentment. Said a Western diplomat: "The Soviets may have succeeded in subduing the population in this first round, but that is not the end of the affair, knowing these hot-blooded Afghans." Added another: "The quagmire Moscow has created for itself is getting deeper and deeper...
...proposal seemed unlikely to satisfy either of the superpowers. A skeptical Vance endorsed it tepidly as an "important suggestion." To no one's surprise, Moscow rejected it outright. "The illogicality of such a proposal is obvious," scoffed the Soviet government newspaper Izvestia, charging that the idea had been "borrowed from across the Atlantic Ocean...
...dissent. Usually, its actions against insurgent campesinos take place in provincial backwaters, thus escaping widespread attention. This time, however, the regime moved against a foreign embassy in the full glare of worldwide publicity. Said one diplomat in Mexico City: "It is worse than the Iranian hostage business. This is outright murder...