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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 7, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes sunday december 7.1966 Maine to get Newfoundland Caribou of. _. A. .,.,.,., _. Ai i. By pm Holyrood Newfoundland a game offi cats in helicopters swooped Down across a Barren wilderness Friday to capture the first of 30 Caribou Des lined for Maine and the work of starting a new Herd. Eleven of the Rind car like animals larger than Deer but smaller than Moose were rounded up Fri Day including a 325-Pound Stag with a full rack. They re prime animals said biologist Dave Fonhof the Newfoundland wildlife division. The Roundup will be completed saturday. Biologists hoped 10 gel 26 pregnant females and four Stags. The Tranquili Zed animals their legs tied were unloaded from helicopters on plywood stretchers at the base Camp then weighed dosed with Medicine an loaded onto a cattle truck for the four Day 1,200-mile trip to Maine. I m having the time of my life beamed former Maine gov. Horace Hildreth 84, As he watched from a ear. Hildreth donated 150,000 for the operation. The Caribou was once abundant in Maine where its meat fed woodsmen in lumber Camps and was sold commercially. But there has t been a viable Caribou Herd in the state for Over eight decades. Friday Roundup which continued through occasional Snow squalls freezing temperatures and brisk winds climaxed a yearlong Effort by the Maine Cari Bou transplant corp. To capture a Nursery Herd. Ull Means an awful lot to see this come to fruition said Tenn h. Manuel a member of the group an commissioner of the Maine Inland fisheries and wild life department. Biologists and Field technicians shot tranquil Izer darts As the helicopters swooped 10 to 20 feet from the running Caribou. At the staging area the animals were hustled to Scales suspended from a log Cross bar and they were Given injections to Ward of parasites Streisand infections. Blood Trail were taken and a tooth was taken from each animal to determine its age. Finally each Caribou was Given a drug to revive it As it was loaded into the trailer. Inside the Caribou whose Coats turn from Light Tan to almost White this Lime of year browsed peacefully. The docile creatures freely approached humans and licked the hands of some. Taking in the scene with obvious Joy was 72-year old Mike Nolan a former Newfoundland game Warden who is credited with saving one of the Wand s largest trapper Mike Nolan right helps Wolo Gorts with captured ctr Bou Flut u being Tori to Milne. Herds from being wiped out Atout 30 years ago. For More than five years he virtually lived with the Caribou to protect them from poachers sometime staying for weeks at a time on the Tundra like barrens of the Atlantic Island. When you live to see this you fed great said Nolan smiling. Caribou herds have been transplanted in several areas of Newfoundland and Eastern Canada has a Herd of about 800,000 that supports a commercial Harvest a Stag with a Majestic rack graces the Canadian 25 cell  1963, two dozen Newfoundland Caribou were set free in Maine s Baxter stale part but poaching Dis ease migration and Mack bean Are believed to have doomed the animals in a state that has a Day named  Ray the Success of the latest project it not  animals will be kept under dose observation for about a year at the state University s onto Cam put. As Many As 10 May be taken a the Spring to an Island owned by artist Andrew Wyeth and his wife Betsy some Newborn calve might be placed in Jit wild a about a year. They would All be monitored by collars. Guinness heir Young socialite begin drug related sentences London up the final chapter was closed saturday on the tragic drug death of a Cabinet min ister s daughter a Case that shocked Britain with revelations of fast living among its most privileged youth at Oxford University. The heir to the guinness brewing Fortune and a Young socialite whose family mixed with Britain s elite began sentences for drug offences committed at an upper crust party in june that kilted Olivia Channon 22, daughter of Trade minister Paul Channon. The shocked Mother of Sebastian guinness who began a four month sentence for drug Possession called drugs the curse of his  guinness 22, a flamboyant Dresser with a penchant for painting his fingernails Black was among a group of Young Blue bloods the so called smart set who craved adventure and High living. Guinness Channon and her Best Friend Rosie Johnston 23, All went to a party june 10 to celebrate end of exams at Oxford s Christ Church College the most venerable school at the University. Friends said Channon spent the night guzzling drinks and taking drugs  Oxford Slang for partying. The wild party was held in the rooms of Bannon s Friend. Count Gottfried von Bismarck great great grandson of Germany s 19th-Century Iron Chan cellar Otto von Bismarck. The count was known for his High living and was a leading member of Oxford s piers Waves Lon dining club an elite group of Oxford men who specialize in outrageous party pranks and heavy drinking. Channon was known for fast living and her friends were collectively called the wild  friends said she liked to dress outrageously in Black had spiked blonde hair and popped amphetamines smoked marijuana and enjoyed chasing the dragon Healing heroin on Silver foil and breathing in the fumes. Court proceedings revealed that Channon who had an annual allowance of about $35,750, would beep her Pusher through a radio pager place drug orders and then meet him in Sleazy London pubs for the trans actions. During the night of june 10, the revellers in Bis Marck s rooms led for other parties but Channon stayed on. The next Day at about 8 a.m., she was discovered dead in bed. She died from a mixture of heroin and alcohol Leav ing behind shocked friends and relatives and trusts of about $715.000. Three members of the Royal family attended her funeral. Bismarck 24, was fined about 1115 in september for Possession of amphetamines. He entered a private drug clinic. In addition to guinness four month sentence for Possession Johnston was jailed for nine months for Possession and for supplying Channon with the heroin that she picked up from Cannon s dealer before the fatal party. Channon s dealer Paul Dunstan 31, got four years. Prosecutors said he had a radio Beeper and Channon would give him 24 hours notice so he could fill her drug orders. There is perhaps a notion in our society that it is acceptable for the Rich and privileged to dabble in hard drugs said Oxford Crown court judge Philip Otton in passing sentence Friday. It is not the daily Telegraph saturday ran the headline the parly s Over for Olivia s drug  the times declared Oxford set enjoyed one wild party too  world today 2 former Beach boys performing in China peking a two former members of the singing group the Beach boys who were popular in the 1960s, gave a concert in Shanghai that attracted 18,000 people. Jan Barry and Dean Tommie Are Younng China with a song and dance troupe at their own expense Cuba reports drought is worst in 27 years Havana Cap Cuba reportedly a suffer. Shortages since 1981, Aav the government May be exaggerating the problem to encourage the to be More Thrifty in their water use. The official cuban communist party newspaper grandma reported Friday on the severity of the drought. In a recent speech presidea.1 Fidel Castro described Thedro Ughi As very intense Herald Tribune names new executive editor Paris a the International Herkt trib Une has named John Vinocur As executive editor succeeding Philip Foisie when Fotio retires feb. 1.publisher Lee w. Huebner made the announce Mem Friday at the newspaper s pans Headquarters. Vinocur 46, presently is metropolitan editor of the new York times. He was the times Pant Bureau chief from 1982 to 195 and was Bono Bureau chief from 1977 to 1982,before joining the new York tunes Vinocur had worked since 1966 for the associated press in new York and Pant and reported from trope the Middle East and Asia  
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