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Every day Carel Van Schaik heard the chain saws as gangs of illegal loggers cut through the trees across the river from his orangutans' forest habitat. And every day the fighting between Acehnese rebels and the army moved closer; mutilated bodies sometimes were found dumped in these very forests. Indonesia was literally falling apart, village by village, tree by tree, and that meant extinction was nigh for myriad species, among them Van Schaik's orangutans. Environmentalists once said the apes might be extinct in a matter of decades; their increasingly frantic warnings now spoke of just years. Orangutans need virgin...
Baskin-Robbins came to Bow Street in the fall of 1971, with the class. Bursar's cards had photographic identification for the first time. The Lampoon went co-ed. The manager of the Club Casablanca, Govert K. van Schaik '62, was shot to death at the Club during prime drinking hours. The SDS still made news. Students continued to occupy administration buildings on campuses across the nation, and in April a group of Harvard students took over Massachusetts Hall for a week...
...year-old Cambridge resident pleaded guilty yesterday to charges of second degree murder in the January 29 slaying of Govert K van Schaik '62 former manager and a part owner of the Club Casablanca...
...Schaik was shot during business hours on a Saturday night at the 40 Brattle Street establishment...
...January 29 Govert K. van Schaik '62, manager and part owner of the Club Casablanca on Brattle Street, was shot and killed in an altercation at the bar. The assailant later turned himself into the police...