Radical Environmental Group Takes Credit for Fire at Michigan State U.

A radical environmental group has claimed responsibility for setting a fire that destroyed the offices of a project at Michigan State University that brings biotechnology research to agricultural scientists in the Third World.

In a fax sent to Michigan newspapers, the group called itself the Earth Liberation Front, or E.L.F. It said it objected to research designed "to lobby developing countries to abandon their current agricultural practices and to rely on

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