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Under pressure from the U.S., Japan agreed last November to put its sperm whalers, among the last practitioners of an ancient profession, out of business by 1988. American conservationists, who consider whaling a senseless slaughter of an endangered species, were not satisfied. Greenpeace and eleven other environmental groups sued the U.S. Government, charging that amendments to two separate conservation laws require in effect that the Administration impose economic sanctions on Japan for its whaling operations...
Seeing Enos Slaughter of the Cardinals run out a walk to first base, Rose resolved that he would do that every time if he ever made it to pro ball. Rose's uncle Curley Smart was a clubhouse helper for the Redlegs and helped Pete into an extra uniform. While still in high school, Rose became a familiar figure around the team, having a catch with Johnny Temple or Roy McMillan. Signed eventually at the age of 19 by Buddy Bloebaum, another uncle, Rose took just three years in the minors to turn into an annoying presence at Reds training...
...sanctioned seal hunts in which baby seals are clubbed to death: I agree with the Humane Society of the U.S.'s boycott of all Canadian seafood. In many former whale-hunting areas, the locals earn their income from whale-watching tours. Let's turn the tide from baby-seal slaughter to seal watching...
...eight minutes and one second in all, the first three minutes especially, they flurried in a slaughter house. Immediately Hagler's forehead was opened and Hearns' right hand was crushed, injuries not exactly unrelated. Only to Hagler did the first round seem brief. "I hated to hear that bell ring." He could make out the shouts from Hearns' corner to box, box, box. "I wanted him to continue fighting...
...years with its obsession with power. Male self-identity depends on the ability to control women and nature. No dominance, no manhood. Parodying Vince Lombardi on football, French writes: "In a patriarchal world, power is not just the highest but the only value." Elsewhere she seems to say that slaughter is required for male identity: "Killing became the mark of the truest man, of manhood itself...