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...Please remove the wool from your economic eyes. 'Your article on the causes and cures of inflation [April 8] had only one significant statement regarding our present predicament: "In the U.S., the avowedly conservative Nixon presidency has piled up cumulative deficits of about $120 billion, the highest of any peacetime Administration in history...
...they deserve. Western critics might denounce him too, if anyone cared. The diatribe in Jenmin Jih Pao specifically cited Respighi's symphonic poem, Pines of Rome for stimulating "empty talk about changes in contrasts and emotions" which tries to "gloss over the class content.... so as to pull the wool over the eyes of the masses and deceive them...
...Unicorn series from the Cluny Museum in Paris and the Hunt of the Unicorn from the Cloisters in New York. Drawn from other collections as far apart as Leningrad, Brussels and Boston, there are, in all, 97 tapestries on view. These thick, fragile, faded mats of intricately worked wool are among the supreme artifacts of the late medieval world, and they exhale a richness which has vanished from our own culture...
...generations Western sheepmen have reserved their deepest wrath for the coyote (Canis latrans), a wily cousin of the wolf with a healthy appetite for mice, rabbits and, according to the wool growers, lambs. Since 1972, when the Environmental Protection Agency flatly banned the most effective coyote poisons - Compound 1080 (monofluoride acetate) and the M44 (a spring-loaded tube containing sodium cyanide)-sheepmen have been howling loudly. They claim that a burgeoning coyote population is threatening their already risky business (which operates on a 2% profit margin) with ruin. They have begun attaching bumper stickers to their automobiles with legends like...
...problem. If they were, the problem should no longer exist." Despite its preference for aerial shooting and trapping, however, the EPA agreed last month to permit the use of the M44 on private land. Since roughly 12 million sheep graze at least part of the time on federal land, wool growers soon may seek permission to use coyote poisons there. Before approving, the Government will want an accurate estimate of how many sheep are actually endangered and how many predators are afoot. Any coyote counters available...