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News-Roundup World The last known American POWs were released Tuesday by the Vietcong in Hanoi as the last American troops (more than 5,200) began to leave. Release of the 32 prisoners had been held up last week, but President Nixon's hold-up of the withdrawal of the remaining troops eased the way for prisoner release. When troop removal was tesumed, almost 1,000 left South Vietnam Tuesday; 1,800 were expected toleave Wednesday and 2,500 Thursday. The final 825 men will be withdrawn Saturday and thus end America's 12-year involvement in Vietnam. More than 540,000 troops were in South Vietnam at the height of American involvement in April, 1969.. Brig. Gen. Russell Ogan said, however, it would take up to five years to be able to account for almost 2,500 men missing in action. National WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Nixon vetoed a $2.6 billion vocational rehabilitation bill Tuesday. Nixon denounced the bill as one of many which could boost federal spending by more than $50 billion in less than three years. It is expected, however, that the Senate will pass the bill despite the President's veto, but it is doubtful whether the House will comply and also pass the bill. Nixon said he did support vocational rehabilitation and said his proposals have increased support already by 75 per cent. He objected to this particular proposal, he said, because it would increase the budget spending by about $1 billion during the next three years. State and Local COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA should have a second medical school if federal funds are available to launch it and the state will assume responsibility for its support, according to Sen. J. Walter Bristow Jr. of Richland. Bristow was one of the three state senators in a legislative study committee which has considered the possibility. A new medical school could be an adjunct to the Univer sity, a branch of the Medical University of South Carolina at Charleston or it could be connected with the medical school at the Veterans Administration hospital, Bristow said. The study committee proposed that funds could best be obtained through a VA appropriation already approved by Congress, which will aid eight new medical schools in the nation. T. Eston Marchant, chairman of the USC Board of Trustees said the University supports the committee's recommendations. "We look forward to cooperating in the implementation of the recommendation and urge the General Assembly to favora bly consider and approve the proposals for improving health care in South Carolina, he said. Deliberations continue on the $850 million state budget for fiscal year 1973-74. Part of the budget, encompassing $744.5 million and twelve sections in part one, have already been adopted. This includes adoption of an $119,150 increase for the Legis lative Department. Of this $89,250 would provide for staff researchers. The postage allowance for each lawmaker could be increased from $30-200, which would require an additional $29,900 a year. The governor's office received the largest expenditure in the twelve parts. Several changes were proposed to alter the budget on the House floor. One, which would have hiked the $25 daily subsistence pay to $35, was approved on a voice vote. ia Sweaty From the National Observer Cat lovers are raising a stink about Chanel No. 5. In fact, they're threatening to spurn the well known perfume forevermore in a nationwide boycott. All because Jacques Leal, chairman of Chanel Ltd. of London, let the cat out of the bag, so to speak. Leal told an Australian news paper in an article published last year that a key "fixative" used to make Chanel's fragrance lasting is ... cat sweat. More precisely, he explained, Chanel's formula calls for "the sweat of-a whipped Abyssi nian civet cat." Then Leal went on to describe the "ancient technique'' by which the sweat, or civet, is collected. "They put the cat's head into a sort of tor ture chamber, whip it, the cat gets mad and it gives off a glandular secretion." Does Chanel itself use that torture chamber? "Good heavens, no!" Leal hastened to add. "We just buy the stuff in bottles. That disclaimer wasn't good enough for friends of the Abyssi nian civet cat, a long-tailed wild ani mal that grows two to three feet tall. Now the fur is flying, and those people sweating are the officials of Chanel. They're arguing that the growing flap is a big misunder standing and that nobody mistreats civet cats any more. The civet-cat defenders aren't so sure. The International Society for the Protection of Animals (ISPA) last year sent its own investigator to Ethiopia, the leading producer of civet. (Civet traditionally is shipped out in the hollowed horns of the ze bu ox. Besides containers for civet, this hump-backed ox also yields milk and meat. Defenders of the zebu, if any there be, have so far not worked up a sweat over the pre sent dispute.) The investigator reported that wild civet cats are imprisoned in cages three feet long by 18 inches high and wide. The cages, he said, are stored in concrete sheds where the temperature is raised to 110 degrees partly by "lighting fires," which also creates a "smoky Archeologi A university aroheologist is using old wine bottles in an attempt to establish a new tool by which archeological sites can be dated. Richard F. Carrillo of the USC Institute of Archeology and Anthropology said he has illus trated by quantitative data -bottle measurements--what had previously been determ in able only by visual and subjec tive means. Days For atmosphere." About every nine days the cats are pinned down and civet is scraped from a pouch near their sex organs. NO CRUELTY, Ethiopia Says Ethiopian officials deny that civet cats are mistreated by that African country's civet farmers. The ISPA's investigator reported that Ethiopia's director of wildlife said he "didn't think there was any suf fering involved, but as the emperor (Haile Selassie) was strongly opposed to any form of suffering, he (the director) would immediately send out a letter to all farmers warn ing them that if they caused any suf fering to the cats their licenses would be revoked." Although its investigator found no evidence that the cats are beaten, the London-based ISPA concluded that his report "reveals a most unsatisfactory state of affairs. This business subjects animals to totally unnecessary suffering," it reported, "especially as very good perfumes are now made with sub stitute fixatives." Some U. S. groups are reacting without such British reserve. The New York-based Society for Animal Rights, Inc., (formerly the National Catholic Society for Animal Wel fare, Inc.) is urging its members nationwide to write protest letters to Chanel and to stop buying Chanel products. Helen Jones, the society's president, says some members have responded by pouring their Chanel No. S-which isn't cheap-"down the drain." Cat Magazine Urges Protest The December 1972 issue of Cat Fancy magazine joined the fight in an editorial also calling for an out pouring of protest letters. "A few hundred letters will have no ef fect," the editorial warned, adding: "Half a million or more, resolving to boycott Chanel products forever more, may be the occasion for a serious board-of-directors meeting; a million or more may result in some policy changes." st Finds New Someday wine bottles, pre sumably, will be used effec tively as "time markers" to date archeological sites. The data approach has already been used successfully with pottery and pipe sterns. Carrillo maintains that there is an evolti onary development to b)e seen in the shape~ of Eng lish wine bottles (specifically those made from 1652 to 1834) and he has de vised a mat heiat Chanel Now individual consumers are starting to distribute anti-Chanel petitions. In Washington, D.C., peti tions alleging that Chanel uses an ingredient "derived by cruel and unusual punishment to the civet cat" are circulating on Capitol Hill and at several Government agencies. Chanel's advertising slogan is, "Every woman alive wants Chanel No. S." But asks one petition, "Does every woman want the sweat of an Abyssinian civet cat?" Chanel has received a lot of pro test letters, concedes a spokesman for Chanel, Inc., the perfumer's New York subsidiary. But in a letter being sent in reply, Leal insists his published remarks were "misinter preted" and that subsequent checks with Chanel's civet suppliers turned up "reassuring replies" that "no cruelty whatsoever takes place." The letter pointedly observes that civet is widely used by "a great number" of other perfume com panies too. Next: Beavers, Whales, Tibetan Deer? Books on perfume history con firm that the wide use of civet as a perfume fixative dates back to before the Sixteenth Century, when diluted civet was popular in Europe for its musky odor. (The smell of undiluted civet can be overpower ing.) The fragrance, one prominent Seventeenth Century French chem ist reportedly said, "comforts the spirits and is good against all dis eases of the head and brain." His tory also records the technique of "taunting" caged civet cats; the more civet they produce. But the use of civet wasn't gener ally known until Leal's disastrous interview. Now animal lovers are busy sniffing out other potential perfume-ingredient scandals. Among other things, they want to know more about the use of castor from beavers, ambergris from sperm whales, and musk from the Tibetan deer. v Tool ical model to predict attributes of bottles made in that period. So far his model has been tested with bottles from two South Carolina digs, Fort Moore near Augusta, Ga., and Newington Plantation in Summerville. His theory of e vol utionar'y develop ment has been borne out by these collections. Carrillo began by construct ing a mat hematical model based on 49 ht tIne