November 5, 1999
Animal-Rights Group Sends Booby-Trapped Letters to Dozens of Researchers
An extremist animal-rights group last month mailed more than 80 letters booby-trapped with razor blades to scientists who study primates. The activists, who call themselves the "Justice Department," threatened to step up the violence if the researchers didn't stop their experiments.
The letters contained a succinct message: "You have been targeted and you have until autumn of 2000 to release all your primate captives and get out of the vivisection industry. If
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