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...market for such products was fed by a scattering of faddists, who patronized a handful of "health food" shops. But that was before the back-to-nature spirit roused the young, and much of the rest of the nation was shaken by the cranberry scare, the mercury-in-tuna scare and the cyclamate scare. Says Marshall Ackerman, executive vice president of Rodale Press in Emmaus, Pa., which publishes books and magazines about the movement: "I've been in this business for 16 years, and nothing happened for the first 13. Since then it's become phenomenal." Last year...
...Canned Tuna...
...More Harvard students would eat here, but they can't afford it," Ruth Haster, Hillel regional secretary, said. A student would spend $34 if he bought two meals a day at Hillel for six days. "In the past, we ate a lot of canned tuna in our rooms," Hillel Kieval '73, one of the students trying to get rebates, said last week...
Ostensibly to protect its deep-sea fishery from the depredations of foreign commercial fleets, Ecuador claims that its territorial waters extend 200 miles offshore-something of a stretch beyond the usual twelve-mile limit. Yanqni tuna fishermen have "intruded" regularly over the years, sometimes paying the Ecuadoreans a license fee, sometimes not. Without a license, the American boats run the risk of seizure by the Ecuadorean navy. (More than half of Ecuador's 21 ships, as it happens, were supplied by the U.S.) Lately the Ecuadoreans have been getting more aggressive: since Jan. 11 they have seized...
...sturgeon caught within her realm. The last sturgeon to be caught in British waters was indeed presented to the Queen in 1970, but the fish is rather scarce and besides, the Lord Chancellor whimsically suggested, it is in the process of being replaced as a delicacy "perhaps by canned tuna...