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...hunt is for scientific purposes allowed under the moratorium. The minke whales, which are not on the endangered-species list, will be dissected to determine their age and reproductive history. Fair enough, but the whale meat produced will turn up at restaurants in Japan. And that, says Commerce Department Spokesman Brian Gorman, "gives rise to concerns that this may be a thinly veiled commercial hunt." The Japanese people cannot understand why killing an unendangered species should cause such a ruckus. "Americans eat beef," they say. "Why can't we eat whale...
...pile into cars and vans every day to patrol the roads leading to Hebron and Nablus. They claim that their purpose is to "supplement" the Israeli army; their real intent seems to be provocation and revenge. "The Palestinians are not afraid of the soldiers," insists Shmuel Ben-Yishai, a spokesman for the Kiryat Arba residents. "But they are afraid of us." Ben-Yishai, who directs his troop of nearly 100 gun-toting activists by walkie-talkie, rejects army demands that he stop. "The majority of the generals are small politicians," he scoffs. "Our sickness is trying to look good...
...spokesman said the agency "categorically denies" Blandon's accusation. But Senator Alfonse D'Amato of New York, one of Noriega's bluntest antagonists, said he found Blandon's charges eminently credible. "The fact is," he said, "that Noriega -- this thug and racketeer -- has been on the payroll of the CIA for many years and remained there, I understand, until rather recently...
...UMass spokesman said yesterday that the university will search for the attackers...
Last October, the Reagan Administration decided to reject Rubin's new statistical methods and will not adjust the 1990 census data. James Gorman, a spokesman for the Department of Commerce, which oversees the Census Bureau, explains, the "point was that the Census Bureau would be open to the accusation that it was manipulating figures. Also, no one was sure if [the new technique] would be operational by 1990. Some people say it's not possible to take an accurate survey of 300,000 after the 1990 census and to give it to the president, according...