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PENTAGON REVERSES ITSELF: NO SHOOTING OF DOGS [1]
['The Associated Press']
Date: 1983-07-27
Mr. Weinberger, who owns a male collie, could not be reached for comment. Representative Tom Lantos, Democrat of California, who gathered the signatures of 13 members of the House on a letter protesting the Pentagon plan, said, ''This is absolutely mind-boggling that they planned to do this.'' Mr. Lantos said the Defense Department had planned to use as many as 80 dogs a year in a new ''wound laboratory'' at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences at Bethesda.
The dogs were to be purchased for about $60 each from dealers, according to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, a private group that denounced the idea.
The group said that after the dogs were shot at close range with pistols, medical students would study them to learn how to treat combat wounds.
Dr. Donald Doyle, an adviser to the protesting group, said anything the students might learn would have ''absolutely no application'' to combat wounds.
The Bethesda laboratory is one of at least five where the Defense Department conducts research on live animals, Representative Lantos said. The others are Letterman Army Hospital, San Francisco; Chemical Systems Laboratories, Edgewood, Md.; the Academy of Health Sciences, San Antonio, and the Dental Research Institute here.
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