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...meeting in Geneva this week. These biannual sessions usually come and go without attracting much attention, but the plight of the tiger has put a spotlight on the delegates this time around. Last September cites warned China and Taiwan, two countries where the illicit trade in tiger and rhino parts is prevalent, to take steps to shut down their black markets or face possible trade sanctions. Both nations claim to have curbed the illegal commerce, but environmentalists have gathered evidence to the contrary. Now everyone who is worried about wildlife focuses on one question: Will the nations of CITES follow...
...organizations, led by the Earth Island Institute (EIA) and Britain's Tiger Trust, took their case against China and Taiwan to the governing committee of CITES in March 1993. The committee gave the two countries six months to start cracking down on the trade in tiger parts and rhino horn. The deadline had little effect: at a meeting in Brussels last September, CITES declared the measures taken by China and Taiwan to be inadequate and set the stage for trade sanctions to be imposed...
...unit has been staffed or even has a budget. Taiwan officials have variously said the unit will have 300, 45 and six officers. So far, the Taiwanese have not made a single arrest, and response to a government call for people to come forward and register tiger parts and rhino horn has been embarrassingly small. Allan Thornton of the EIA says past efforts to enforce the law consisted of uniformed police asking pharmacies whether they had tiger bone -- something like having cops ask drug dealers whether they are carrying heroin...
What's really striking about this collection is the live material on the last disk. This collection has none of the problems of consistency that plague the plethora of live Otis albums currently available. Remastered and cleaned up, Rhino includes some of the best Otis tracks recorded (a soul-wrenching "Try A Little Tenderness", for one) as well as some great tracks recorded at audibly small venues--on the classic "These Arms of Mine," women can be heard repeatedly offering Otis their arms for comfort...
...Rhino is planning to continue re-releasing old Atlantic catalogs. If they sustain the intelligence and care they did in both the selection and composition of these three sets, future releases should prove to be as sure a bet as these three...