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...determination to keep conversation light and innocuous and for his eagerness to reach out to all sorts of people. But above all, he has become known for his chef, who specializes in the hot, spicy cuisine of Szechwan province. One member of a group of 15 Canadian amateur sportsmen who recently dined at the embassy recalls that toasts were made "to us, to you, to sport, to friendship between our two countries. Every time we took a sip, they refilled our glasses." But, he adds, "they're pretty careful about how much they drink themselves...
...golden and bald eagles been killed in Wyoming, but they had been shot in the least sportsmanlike way of all-from helicopters. Testifying before a Senate subcommittee, James Vogan, a balding, heavy-set helicopter pilot from Murray, Utah, told how he had ferried sharpshooters and so-called "sportsmen" over ranches in Colorado and Wyoming to "sluice" the eagles. Sluicing is what Westerners call the unsporting act of shooting sitting ducks, or eagles. Vogan also said that he knew of $15,000 paid to the flying service that owned the helicopter by Herman Werner, a Wyomingite who is the state...
...Black Hills: one mine alone yielded more than $500 million in gold. Of the estimated 3,700,000 buffalo killed from 1872 through 1874, only 150,000 were killed by Indians. The rest were slaughtered by white hunters for skins and for meat to feed rail workers, or by "sportsmen" who left the carcasses to rot. The destruction of the buffalo broke the cultural, ecological and spiritual links in the chain of Indian existence. This was not without its uses. "Let them kill, skin and se'l until the buffalo is exterminated." said General Philip Sheridan, a Civil...
...Trail bikers litter the landscape with beer cans, pull-top rings, plastic bags, oily rags, empty bottles. Pistol-packing snowmobilers are decimating Alaskan caribou; overhunting is common elsewhere. At Minnesota's tiny, remote Pierz Lake, a reporter counted 67 snowmobiles and 120 fishermen in one winter day. The sportsmen took out 556 Ibs. of medium-sized fishabout a year's production for the lake...
...brand names, the FIS ruled that skiers could obtain payments for endorsements-so long as the money was approved by and dispensed through their national associations. Said FIS President Marc Hodler: "Our decision is evolutionary, not revolutionary. We have accepted the fact that ski racers are now full-time sportsmen who simply have no time left over for earning extra money...