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DANGEROUS IVORY TRADE...
...African elephants that exist today may be wiped out by lifting the seven-year ban on selling "white gold" [ENVIRONMENT, June 16]. Allowing legal trade with even one country, Japan, for example, will inevitably lead to the poaching of these beautiful creatures and to their gradual disappearance. Why can't we let them be in the wild? I agree with the U.S. in opposing even limited ivory sales. DURGA DEVI RAMANAN Pittsford...
BALTIMORE: It's not suprising that the Federal Trade Commission is expected to approve the proposed $7.9 billion merger of Lockheed Martin, the number one U.S. contractor, with sixth-ranking Northrop Grumman, since the U.S. is taking the position in the post Cold War era that preserving critical technologies is more important than avoiding monopolies. Observes TIME's Mark Thompson: "The argument here is that fewer efficient companies are better than more inefficient ones." Besides, when was efficiency ever an issue in the defense industry? While such a deal in any other sector would spark worries about concentration of market...
Christmas Early Bird Show (trade show...
Hundreds of thousands of African elephants were slaughtered in the 1980s by ivory poachers, leading to a 1989 ban on international trade in the precious white stuff. But in southern Africa the species is far from endangered; indeed, the area is now overpopulated with elephants. Two weeks ago, TIME reported that Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia wanted permission not to kill elephants but merely to sell stockpiled ivory, taken mostly from animals that had died of natural causes or been culled. Environmentalists objected, on the grounds that any legal sales would encourage poachers to go back in business. But last week...