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...Little Mermaid had a Japanese flag draped at her feet and was blindfolded with an American flag; she was also impaled by a symbolic harpoon. These protests were held around the world last week in the name of peace-peace for the threatened leviathan of the deep, the sperm whale...
...killing of this whale was supposed to have ended after this year's spring hunt by order of the 40-member International Whaling Commission (IWC). But Japan's commercial fleet is still slaughtering sperm whales. And the U.S. Government, to the anguish of environmental groups, is allowing Japan to continue...
...Japanese whaling industry, which employs more than 50,000 people, has been pleading with Tokyo not to put it out of business. At the same time, the government was being pressed by Washington to abide by the ban. Despite this pressure, the Japanese announced that they would catch 400 sperm whales in the 1984-85 season, and in early November a four-ship whaling fleet put out to sea. Two weeks ago, one of the ships returned to port with two sperm whales...
...head of the U.S. delegation to the IWC's 1981 meeting, agrees. "What the Administration is actually doing is caving in to Japanese pressure," he says. "The U.S. has not won a promise from Japan to end commercial whaling and may not even have a deal to limit sperm whaling." Conservation groups have sent U.S. Secretary of Commerce Malcolm Baldrige a letter documenting Japanese whale kills this year and urging him to "certify" the Japanese as violators of the IWC agreement. If he does not, they say they will take the Government to court. William Rogers, who represents...
...Frank Godwyn, whose farm near Orlando produces alligators like chickens. Godwyn's company uses a technique of artificial insemination developed by Paul Cardeilhac, a University of Florida veterinarian. Sound waves from a $26,000 machine track the development of the female's egg-bearing follicle, then sperm from an alligator bull is injected at the appropriate moment. If all goes well, fertilized eggs yield snapping, 7-in. babies in 45 days. They grow at 2 ft. a year on Godwyn's farm, vs. about half that rate in the wild, to a harvesting size...