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Calling the plan "bizarre," Don Bachman of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition predicts that the complaints will be just as loud this year. The hunt's organizers, he says, "have really stepped in the buffalo chip...
Between 600 and 700 Harvard alumni are expected to attend, according to University Marshal Richard M. Hunt...
More troubling is that for years Buchanan has appeared to go out of his way to rile Jewish sensitivities. He argued the innocence of accused and convicted Nazi executioners and suggested that in any case the hunt for old, enfeebled men was of dubious moral value. An outspoken Roman Catholic, he enmeshed himself shrilly in a controversy between Jewish protesters and a convent they wanted removed from the former Auschwitz concentration camp...
...then called Georgi Malenkov, who was at that time in charge of cadres for the Moscow party organization, as his witness, saying now that he was the one who had told him that I was really a Pole. Malenkov too denied he had said anything of the kind. The hunt for Poles had reached the point that Stalin was ready to turn Russians into Poles...
Invading animals are also a difficult problem. Rats have been hitching rides to the islands on ships for centuries, then escaping into the forests where they feast on nesting birds and their eggs. Local authorities imported mongooses to hunt the rats in 1883. But no one considered that mongooses hunt in the early morning and early evening, when the rats are not out. So the mongooses switched to birds, compounding the problem...