From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1997:

As students settle into the 1997-
1998 school year, we hope recognition of
some of the many outstanding youth accom –
plishments during the past school year and
over the summer might inspire more:
Sarika Sancheti, 17, of New Delhi,
India, won a precedent-setting verdict on May
19 when the federal Ministry of Human
Resources Development made classroom animal
dissection optional, after Delhi High
Court justices V.K. Sabharwal and D.K.
Jain agreed with her attorney, R a m
Panjwani, that the 1960 Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals Act had intended that dissection
should be banned.
Five weeks earlier, Gina Raynor,
14, and Heather Sauders, 15, of
Hagerstown, Maryland, lost a two-year legal
battle when the U.S. Supreme Court rejected
without comment their contention that they
should be compensated for the confiscation
and killing of their pet ferret in a rabies test,
after he bit Christina Lee Heitt, also of
Hagerstown, at a December 1994 slumber
party. The ferret was killed for testing because
Heitt’s mother objected to obliging her to
undergo post-exposure rabies vaccination.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1997:

Named special projects director by
the World Society for the Protection of
Animals in June, after 12 years in similar
roles with the American SPCA, Kathi
Travers immediately won headlines with
high-profile rescues of pets from the volcano-wracked
Caribbean island of
Montserrat, but was fired August 20, appare-
ntly – –ANIMAL PEOPLE understood
then––due to conflict with other WSPA staff.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1997:

WASHINGTON D.C.––Friends of
Animals on August 20 fired special investigator
Carroll Cox, notifying ANIMAL PEOPLE
literally as the September edition went to
press. The edition featured two Cox investigations
in separate page one articles, with
two more items on inside pages that were
based on Cox probes.
The firing drew notice to the longtime
cooperative relationship of Friends of
Animals with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service––Cox’s former employer, whom he
has sued––in outfitting African anti-poaching
forces. The African projects are among the
most publicized FoA programs.
At the October ANIMAL PEOPLE
deadline Cox said he had retained prominent
legal counsel to draft a lawsuit alleging civil
rights violations on the part of FoA, whom he
accused of acting in collusion with USFWS.

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