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...animals remain elusive, known mostly through their bones and skins. But a team of British and Laotian fieldworkers under contract to New York's Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) say they have taken blood samples from a live specimen of one of the creatures -- the giant muntjac -- in a menagerie owned by a Laotian military group. If they are correct, studies of the captive animal could confirm the claim made earlier this year by Vietnamese scientists and MacKinnon concerning the giant muntjac. MacKinnon analyzed a skull brought to him by Do Tuoc and Shanthini Dawson, an Indian biologist. It resembled that...
...both Hmong tribesmen and Vietnamese poachers who freely cross the border. Wildlife Conservation Society biologist George Schaller has noted that all villagers over the age of 13 seem to have guns, ranging from muzzle loaders to automatic weapons left behind during the war. Alan Rabinowitz, the organizer of the WCS team, says that the area still has remarkable diversity but that all species have been radically reduced by hunting. Laotian trees are also under threat, as deforested neighboring countries look covetously at Laos' timber...
...list of recommended charities are the United Fund, PBH, National Scholarship Service for Negro Students, UNICEF, American Friends Service Committee, World University Service, Northern Students Movement, Harvard Radcliffe WCS Scholarship Fund...
...Sindell '63, chairman of the committee, said recently WCS tries to help students any previous exposure to An- culture...
...President of WCS, that the Society has arranged P. Briggs, Jr. '54, Director of Scholarships, and Mary H. , Associate Director of Radcliffe, to choose a recipient the foreign students admitted Class of 1965 at the College...