Word: slaughtering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...species and, using little more than simple arithmetic, decides how many whales can be killed without endangering the population's survival. But many scientists argue that the calculations should take other factors into account. Some of these marine mammals are believed to be monogamous, and the slaughter of one whale may break up a family unit, with a drastic effect on breeding. Since certain species have the largest brains of any creatures, they may be intelligent enough to fear such sounds as ships' propellers, even at distances of hundreds of miles. This too could disturb their mating habits...
DIED. Anatoli Kuznetsov, 49, Russian author of Babi Yar, a documentary novel about the Nazi slaughter of Jews and others outside Kiev, who fled to Britain in 1969; of a heart attack; in London. Once an obedient party member who even informed on fellow writers for the KGB, he bitterly denounced his homeland as a "fascist state" after his defection...
...troubling questions that linger from the Holocaust, one is as baffling today as it was when the first Allied soldiers stumbled upon the Nazi death camps: How could German physicians, heirs to Europe's proudest medical tradition, participate in mass slaughter and grisly human experiments...
...SALVADOR Mass Murder at The Cathedral A protest turns into slaughter...