European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 26, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The patients Are and by John Barbour associated press the dental surgeon waited for his next she had a severe bite under sedation when they wheeled her there was a Glaze Over her almost As if she had been her breathing was the Inci sors below had badly Cut her upper the first surgery had not been she had a desperate made no the dentist Mattero fact by explained her history her mate chased her around the Yard until she crashed into a breaking off her upper front Dave pagans patients used to be but those proved to be now he works As a consulting dentist at the san Diego zoos general this patient is a a South Ameri can the largest of that she looks like an enormous Brown perhaps five feet from snout to in fact she is an enormous Brown from snout to but under these circumstances she seems rather so do All the feathered and furred patients who enter the Halls where a thoroughly professional staff stands by without trepidation to remove the Thorn from the Lions the ailments arc familiar broken an inability to abscessed malformed difficult sneezes and Runny the syndromes and infections Are often the same As those that afflict but the similarity ends the explains Phi director of veterinary is that each patient is different when i first came i asked How am i Ever going to learn enough to do what i have to do the trouble with dealing with these animals is that we frequently discovered the problem too late for effective therapy and too Early for there Are some animals in the among the Best in the and they represent almost 800 a broken Arm is a broken you not when it belongs to a Tomodo dragon besides having to live and Cope with its mending the Lizard represents an endangered there Are Only some of its Brethren in the world and Only a dozen or so in Captivity outside its native it is a very important Ani doctors devised and installed a Metal plate on the Bone beneath the lizards Tough now this May not be the Mayo but it is nevertheless a vital health facility serving a bizarre it has its operating theater and its treatment but for More elaborate it has to reach out to hospitals that treat take the Case of a eight foot male Indian Rock Python suffering from a malignant tumor in its surgeons removed the but it grew Back in six it called for Cobalt but the zoo does not have so the Snake was transported at night to a local Hospi Tal where it Lay on the radiation table that humans occupy by the Mouth tumor was but the Snake died of widespread autopsy discovered autopsy is besides pinpointing the hazards of zoo it provides clues to now creatures live and die in the Captivity produces some health problems that dont occur in the take the Polar for they were turning the guess was algae living in their closer examination proved that but with a the algae were invading the hollow hairs of the Polar and they were Freshwater the solution was doctors salted the Pool water and the bears turned creamy White the phone rings in Robinson s office and he talks to one of the keepers in charge of colobus Crea Tures from the heavily forested areas of tropical it sounds like an upper respiratory he this weather foggy and Cool is starting to get to those lets get a portable Heater into the sleeping area and close off Well take specimens to see if there is a the Hospital has two functions to take care of acute illness on a daily and to prevent by appropriate diet and the keepers Are the first line of they recognize changes in feeding behaviour or is an animal sitting alone and not socializing they have some very eccentric take the Koala bears six imported from Australia for these cute and cuddly marsupials seem benign but of my the trouble they they Are very finicky picking the eucalyptus leaves they want by sight and Okay in the but difficult when the fresh browse is delivered every Day with the morning zoo gardeners had to Plant a Small eucalyptus Forest 10 Miles from the zoo to supplement the Supply from the wild animal and they had to become expert in the kinds of leaves and branches the koalas will the koalas Are also finicky about where they choosing Only certain resting branches at certain Heights and certain Tough but All the Public sees Are Teddy Bear animals with quaint names like the staff also tends to the emotional and psychological problems of its since these translate to physical problems and even Captivity imposes a whole new set of functions on an a new social explains Don for in Captivity animals Are almost always but in the wild Many live space and trespass Are even the daily in the some primates spend up to 80 percent of the Day foraging for it keeps them but in feeding takes 10 they react with pacing Back and there is a lot of hair pulling and a lot of the things you see in a mental Lindburg beyond All the zoos doctors conduct research into whether Vasectomy is the answer to the worlds burgeon ing lion or How to enhance Fertility in Crea Tures who Are on the endangered even though they dont at present know How to use they have Frozen the seed of hundreds of creatures and keep them in a super cold deep a kind of hedge against they Call the Frozen zoo twentieth Century but the Day today dramas Call for instant Jerry built a 40yearold female asian elephant was brought in because a benign but Large tumor was interfering with her circus zoo doctors worked out a Way of tranquil izing the but kept her chained and standing up while they controlled bleeding with a wooden Dowel and two Radiator Hose then there was another female elephant who had broken her leg in a she was also possibly something not always easy to Tell in doctors used a three Quarter Inch Industrial Drill to bore into the Bone so they could insert a stainless steel they considered using a Block and tackle to prop Erly set the but gave up the idea As too time with such talents in handling doctors have been Able to move on into areas like dental doing Root canals and making dentures for big cats and bears with broken in improving their Quality of Himalayan Black Bear getting medical attention from Jane Meier and Phil veterinarian Robinson and Nursery attendant examining a Newborn siberian Tiger new York times 2 Midge Irving Kristol viewed by liberals As heretic turncoat to the the bumpy Road of the by Bernard Weinraub new York times sometime last Ronald Reagan opened up the pages of commentary Magazine and read an article by Jeane a Georgetown University political science proves criticizing the Carter administrations very Odd policy of dealing selectively with foreign strongmen of the right and Reagan was so impressed that he sat Down and wrote a on Page letter to her praising the piece and suggesting that they that led to Kirkpatrick support of Reagan in the presidential election and her appointment As United states ambassador to the United the appointment reflects reagans foreign policy perhaps More it underscores the emerging strength within the new administration of a group of such As and an array of political economists and editors whose Liberal and Lefto Center views of 20 years ago would have been anathema to it is not that he has it is that who Calls herself a Humphrey Jackson the editors of commentary and the Public and social academicians and writers such As sey Mour Martin Irving James Norman Robert Midge Sidney Hook and Nathan Glazer have journeyed right the trip of these so called neoconservatives a term of rebuke apparently coined by Michael the Veteran in 1973 has been a Little stirring Liberal Wrath and the confusion of Many longtime and certainly the neoconservatives con cede that they often differ with mainstream conserva reagans traditional on Trade Union rights and collective bargaining the so called new right of Phyllis a Leader of the anti Era Jerry the minister who is at the head of the moral and Richard the righting direct mail up set neoconservatives perhaps As much As they do the Liberal prayer in the moral majority to some abortion rights Are issues in which neoconservatives maintain rather traditional Liberal such neoconservatives As Sidney the philos opher who is now at the Hoover institution for peace and also differ sharply with eco nomic libertarians of the Milton Friedman school who seek virtually no Trade barriers and minimal neoconservatives Are fond of pointing out unlike those they strongly favor Trade restrictions with nations such As the soviet Union and support traditional regulations that Many conservatives seek to without restrictions on drug for neoconservatives argue parents in the United states would have faced tragedies similar to those in England when the birth deforming hit the with these the neoconservatives Are far More comfortable in the conservative Camp than among we Are not a movement there has never been a meeting of said Irving its an intellectual the creditor of the Public interest and one of the godfathers of Neo conservatism describes his shift As a gradual the key events which shaped the evolution were the obvious he the Campus revolts of the the Rise of the the great society pro Grams which Many of us Felt were the Reform of the democratic party and its takeover by the Mcgover Nite the immense growth of government liberalism Hast that the in succeeding its flaws became neoconservatives differ considerably on such is sues As homosexual rights and the equal rights among the threads that bind them Are a Stern an opposition to school busing and Many affirmative action programs perhaps most a revulsion at the new lefts attacks on the in the Midge the echoed the views of Many neoconservatives when she observed recently for a Long time Liberal journalists said the country was moving to the it want moving to the right at it was people hold this has gone too liberalism has simply been unable to draw lines be tween the idea abortion should be Legal to a situation where there Are More abortions than live births in new York and one has somehow got to make draw lines and liberalism has failed to do because Kristol and other neoconservatives Are now viewed by liberals As heretics who have not Only fallen from the fold but turned against the attacks on the commentary As some left liberals derisively Call Are often intensely personal and people who Call us racist know were said dec its just an attempt to defame your ideas by calling you Long i decided to live without reference to what people called me since All those characterizations Are intended to paralyse to shut Rne the Only thing i can do is to go on and say what i Page 14 the stars and stripes the stars and stripes Page 15