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About 120 Harvard students learned yesterday that "the best way to make friends with a wolf is to give them food." A demonstration sponsored by the Phillips Brooks House Environmental Action Committee featured two live wolves, "Shaman" and "Sila," and a film about the fate of timber wolves, which are an endangered species...
Before introducing Shaman and Sila, wolfadvocate Kent Weber urged spectators to hide allexposed food--especially junk food, which thewolves love--but assured them that the wolveswould not attack...
...respected citizens to advise the government. The names of the council's 56 participants were released last week, but the roster was not as representative as some observers had hoped. The roll includes 17 Communist Party members but no top leaders of the outlawed trade union Solidarity; Wladyslaw Sila-Nowicki, 73, a lawyer who defended Solidarity members in several trials, is expected to serve as the group's representative. The Roman Catholic Church declined to nominate any delegates. Though exact details of the council's role were not announced, meetings must be convened by Jaruzelski, and published reports will reflect...
...Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, who is in exile in Geneva: "We are now entering a new phase in Algeria's history." Still, Ben Bella was unlikely to try a political comeback. Though he is now free to see visitors at his new home in M'sila, 187 miles from Algiers, his movements are restricted to a limited area around the town...
Suddenly the guerrilla war has come to life. Last November the rebels devastated two villages in western Eritrea. At Debre Sila they killed 52 villagers and burned 200 houses. At Ademdem they ordered residents into their homes, set fire to the village and shot everyone who tried to escape. Both villages, significantly, were Christian. At about the same time, commandos ambushed and killed an Ethiopian general on a narrow canyon road. Last month they blew up two gasoline trucks only five miles from Asmara, the provincial capital, and ambushed and killed an American soldier from Kagnew Station, the giant...