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...acre preserve called Pampa Galeras in the windswept highlands in the southern part of the country. Peru also signed a pact with Bolivia that banned for ten years the hunting of vicuna and the sale of products made from the animal; subsequently, Chile and Argentina joined in the La Paz Convention. In 1973, 51 nations voted to place the vicuña on the endangered-species list and bar it from the commercial market...
...those good works may be undone. Peru, hard pressed for foreign exchange, and anticipating the expiration of the La Paz agreement next month, has embarked on a program to slaughter 5,000 male vicuñas out of 29,500 animals in the preserve and surrounding area. The objective is not immediate sales but to preserve vicuña skins until their wholesale worth-already estimated at $5 million -goes up still higher...
...still looking for a third suspect in the case--Rogelio Paz, from Union City, N.J. Sources in the FBI told The New York Times last week that Townley contacted the Cuban suspects at least two times during the summer of 1976, three months before the assasination...
DIED. Alberto Gainza Paz, 78, editor and publisher of Argentina's great 108-year-old La Prensa, who became an international symbol of a free press by defying Dictator Juan Perón; of cancer; in Buenos Aires. Forced into exile when Perón took over his paper in 1951, Gainza Paz resumed control in 1956 after the dictator's overthrow. Almost 20 years later La Prensa broke a story about the alleged misuse of a $700,000 check that contributed to the downfall of Perón's successor, his widow Isabel...
...other phases of the summer program involved two weeks at the headquarters in La Paz, three weeks on the boycott staff in either the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, or San Diego. The summer program ended at the third bi-annual UFW Constitutional Convention...