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...kissed their property goodbye. Most gems contain no traceable markings. Systems for registering diamonds by photography and other means have proved unreliable. Says Robert Doubet, vice president of Lazare Kaplan & Sons, a New York City diamond-cutting firm: "Once removed from its mounting, a diamond is as good as ownerless...
...plastic intrauterine devices that have proved successful in limiting human pregnancies may provide one answer to India's problem of unwanted reproduction on the part of the 40 million ownerless, hungry, scavenging, substandard, unproductive but nonetheless revered cattle that roam the country... Because castration is almost as unacceptable to Hindus as slaughter, Frank W. Parker, a U.S. Government rural redevelopment specialist long stationed in India, hit on the alternative idea of contraception. At this suggestion animal husbandry experts at the Beltsville, Md, research center of the Department of Agriculture recently equipped 18 cows with plastic spirals and then attempted artificial...
...center, India's Food and Agricultural Ministry enthusiastically launched a pilot project in the northern province of Uttar Pradesh. Of the country's 200 million cattle, some 75% are used as beasts of burden or as milk producers. The remaining 50 million are mostly scrawny, inferior and ownerless. Any cow can be fitted with the contraceptive for a few pennies, and Indian experts think that the program will prompt no public outcry...
...Gaza Strip is a geographic absurdity-an ownerless, 5-by-25-mile enclave of sand, hate and history (Samson pulled down the temple in Gaza), jutting from the world's most troubled frontier. The last surviving bit of the old British Palestinian mandate, this narrow ribbon of primitive coastal land was administered from 1949 until last fall by the Egyptians, who kept lackadaisical order among its 90,000 poverty-stricken, disease-ridden Arab natives, and left to the U.N. relief agency the care and feeding of the 219,000 Palestinian refugees huddled there since the 1949 armistice...
...Arthur T. McCormack, secretary of the State Board of Health, attributed the Louisville situation to: 1) dogs left un-muzzled by their owners; 2) ownerless dogs which the state has neglected to kill off; 3) failure to immunize dogs with rabies vaccine...
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