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Although it is not clear from your recent (March 22) article on "Researchers Defend Use of Pounds' Dogs", a number of members of the Harvard Community do oppose the Massachusetts Pound Seizure Law, which is currently on the statute books, and which allows laboratories to requisition dogs from Public Pounds. It was Harvard researchers who, in 1956, were instrumental in the passage of the law, and today Harvard is by far the biggest user of pound dogs in the state, accounting for approximately...
Members of the Harvard Committee for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, an active and growing undergraduate group committed to improving the lot of animals at Harvard, urge that the Pound Seizure Law be repealed. If dogs are too easy and too cheap to get, they will be overused. It is high time to inject some more moral consideration into our relationships with other animals. Jonathan Haughton Instructor in Economics
...owner of a Denver tire-repair shop, used four grams a day. Says he: "I wanted to feel like a kingpin, the life of the party. Coke gave me all of this. You get to feeling you're bulletproof." (Bulletproof Tony, arrested for selling more than half a pound to an undercover cop, is on probation and paying back the Government its undercover purchase money...
...intercepted and delivered to his door by DEA agents posing as deliverymen, an Air Force member of the presidential honor guard charged with distribution of cocaine, and in Frederick, Md., a six-person coke ring (including a local lawyer and a banker) busted. "It used to be that a pound of cocaine was a big seizure," says Assistant U.S. Attorney James Walsh, John De Lorean's prosecutor and head of the new federal task force in Los Angeles. "Nowadays, if it's a couple of pounds or a kilo...
...undemonstratively, loves his family, he announces the members of the household like coming attractions he would rather not see. Mother (Elizabeth Franz) is an obsessive homemaker with the bawl of a staff sergeant. She inhales imminent doom with every breath. When Eugene asks why he cannot buy a half-pound of butter in the morning instead of a quarter-pound each in the a.m. and p.m., his mother retorts with fatalistic logic: "Suppose the house burned down this afternoon...