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DATE: THURSDAY, August 19, 1993                   TAG: 9308190187
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-4   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: TRENTON, N.J.                                LENGTH: Short

LAND BUREAU SUSPENDS HORSE ADOPTION PROGRAM

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management suspended its national horse adoption program in the Eastern United States on Wednesday, days after four wild mustangs died at a horse park in New Jersey.

The suspension will affect auctions in September and October in St. Louis, Mich.; Windom, Minn.; Carrollton, Ga.; and Tallahassee, Fla., Boylan said. The program was suspended in 31 states, from Minnesota south to Louisiana and east to the Atlantic.

Animal rights activists cheered the move.

"I don't think there are regulations that could make the transportation of wild mustangs from Nevada to the East Coast humane," said Anna Charlton of the Rutgers Law School's Animal Rights Law Clinic. - Associated Press 


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