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...Athletes have a unique sphere of influence on college campuses," said Reggie Williams, one of six "Athletes Who Care" honored by Sports Illustrated as its 1987 Sportsmen of the Year. "People watch you not only when performing but in the real world. It's an opportunity to be empathetic toward other people--an ablility to really lend a hand--which comes with the responsibility to help those that really need...
With Washington correspondent Michael Riley and Houston bureau chief Richard Woodbury, Beaty talked to hunters and sportsmen across the country. When N.R.A. president Joe Foss learned that some of his lobbyists seemed reluctant to cooperate, he ordered them to answer all questions...
...Monitor story told of a local farmer who had been pestered by bears getting into his feed corn. Had to shoot two last year, he said. A fish-and- game-commission biologist said, "Rather than have farmers kill the bears, we would rather have sportsmen utilize the resource." You get used to blood- sport bureaucratese; "utilize,"or "harvest," is what you do when you get something fuzzy and four-footed in your sights. As in most states, New Hampshire's fish and game policies often seem to be caught in a time warp, perhaps in the decade of the 1820s...
Athletes, of course, are hardly the only victims of a rapid and rapacious desire to bring icons down to size. Mike Tyson is merely learning lessons about the price of celebrity that Liz Taylor and Mick Jagger were forced to learn many years ago. Yet sportsmen belong to more innocent kids than do movie stars or musicians, and to adults who wish to be more innocent kids again. Tyson, moreover, appears in the ring for only a few minutes every few months, and Cabinet members work mostly behind closed doors; both are ultimately judged by professionals and peers. Boggs' skills...
...Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates pleaded with the President to outlaw the guns. For several weeks Bush had discussed the semiautomatic-weapons dilemma with his friend Senator James McClure, an Idaho Republican and staunch gun-rights defender. The President was torn between wanting to protect the rights of sportsmen and the lives of police officers...