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...cases of deer poaching this year than last. "Poaching generally involved hippies trying to live off the land, but now we are getting older people trying to combat the rising cost of meat," says a park warden. Last week 100 pheasants were filched from their pens at the Quemahoning Trap and Field Club at Laurel Mountain, Pa. Even hijackings have been reported. Burglars looted 420 canned hams from a tractor truck parked off Interstate 70 near Pittsburgh...
...Though registered in Cyprus, the Claudia is owned by two Germans from Frankfurt. Her voyage to Ireland originated in Cyprus and included stops in the Mediterranean. There was evidence that the arms had been loaded at Tripoli. British intelligence alerted the Irish government to watch for the vessel. The trap staged by Irish forces indicated that new Irish Prime Minister Liam Cosgrave plans to be at least as tough on the Provos as was his predecessor, Jack Lynch...
Finch and Jackson are clever enough to fight their way through the musty veneer. Finch is both salty and regal, gently flamboyant without ever becoming grandiloquent, a trap that Rattigan's script sets for him at every turn. Because Jackson is an eminently subtle actress, her Emma Hamilton is not merely a creature of fire, but a vulnerability imperfectly concealed beneath layers of scar tissue. The supporting actors are stalwart, except for Michael Jayston, who suffers from a kind of congenital insipidity...
Wounded Knee had become a kind of trap, particularly for television. It was obviously a major event that demanded thorough coverage. AIM leaders were so successful in getting their side of the story across, and so enthralled by the attention they were receiving, that they seemed willing to prolong the deadlock for the sake of still more publicity. Most newsmen watched helplessly as the thin line between covering and creating news wavered...
...only a really gifted writer can, she turns paranoia into art, forcing her rapidly industrializing fellow countrymen - her rap idly overindustrializing world - to contemplate the hate in the bloody eye of one of their victims: the "pure pain, clear as water, an animal's at the moment the trap closes." ∙Melvin Maddocks