http://groups.google.com/groups?q=bush+hunting+club+lions&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=R2UL6.67%24Jc2.26611%40nntp1.onemain.com&rnum=1Chicago Tribune
Big names backing big-game hunter
By Paul Salopek
Tribune foreign correspondent
May 13, 2001
JOHANNESBURG -- A wealthy American safari hunter has triggered the latest
skirmish over sport hunting in Africa -- not because of his shooting, but
over the identity of his political gun-bearers.
Steven E. Chancellor, an Indiana coal magnate and major Bush administration
supporter, has lobbied the government of Botswana to lift a recent ban on
lion hunting, adding muscle to his efforts with high-powered letters of
recommendation from former President George Bush, former Vice President Dan
Quayle and Persian Gulf war hero Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf.
All four men are prominent members of Safari Club International, a
U.S.-based advocacy group that promotes big-game hunting worldwide. The
organization has become embroiled in the controversy by courting Botswana
President Festus Mogae with invitations to its annual conference in Las
Vegas, and with offers of equipment for the Botswana wildlife service.
In the African press, the affair is being portrayed -- with some glee -- as
rich, gun-happy Republicans bullying aside a poor country's environmental
policies; American hunters haven't received such a mauling since Teddy
Roosevelt stormed across the continent nearly a century ago, bagging some
500 antelopes, cats and rhinos along the way.
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