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...article ends with the usual mention of Los Angeles' sterilizing clinics, coupling a low-cost sterilizing operation with "thus limiting the number of abandoned pets." Nonsense! The type that would use a clinic would not abandon animals and vice versa. Spaying clinics are all underutilized, even where "binding" contracts for sterilizing are signed at the time of pet purchase. The fact that a vast majority of the puppy crop comes from the middle and upper classes of society means that the whole issue of tax-subsidized pet ownership has to be re-evaluated...
Kaunda did not go so far as to ask South Africa to abandon its own racist policies. In fact, Vorster has begun to smooth down some of the rough edges of apartheid-by easing the job restrictions on nonwhites, for instance -thereby making his policies somewhat less objectionable to his black neighbors. Though South Africa was voted out of the U.N. General Assembly last month, Vorster vowed at the time that South Africa's critics would be surprised "at where the country will stand in six to twelve months." In the meantime, according to diplomatic observers, Vorst laid...
...Hades. Mastiffs brought back from England by Julius Caesar became canine mercenaries, as famed in their day as the K-9 Corps of World War II. There are the tales, too, of faithful cats that travel thousands of miles to find their vanished owner, though thousands more prefer to abandon their homes. Cats are by nature haughty creatures, less dependent than dogs on caresses and canned entrees...
...them about now--naming names from Rolling Stone magazine and exchanging "did you see's" on the latest concert tours. They love their music, but they love all of it--no discriminating. Every night's a great big high after a day's work, and the music is shared abandon, a substitute for words that doesn't demand intellectualizing. They don't identify with the music, but with the idea that there's something that makes them feel better. An escape...
...question is how many other students would like the Food Services to consider those kinds of meals. White concedes that he is not "100 per cent satisfied" with his diet and that it was not easy to "abandon 20 years of a certain way of eating." But, he adds, "You have to wean yourself away from the idea of a meat dish, a vegetable dish and a starch dish at every meal...