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Don't give up search for Dian Fossey's murderers
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After reading the book Gorillas in the Mist by Dian Fossey, I
realized it will soon be the first anniversary of her brutal murder.
I have not heard or read anything since about what has been done
to solve this terrible crime against a great naturalist.
Is she less than the mountain gorillas she so valiantly fought
to save from extinction?
In her book she wrot...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research
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Woman in the Mist
The Washington Post
; ... paper. In 1966, Louis Leakey, the famous archaeologist, lectured at the University of Louisville. Dian approached him with her news clippings and asked to become his "gorilla girl." Leakey was known for his unorthodox selection of researchers. He preferred ...
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The troubled soul of gorilla research
Chicago Sun-Times
; The Dark Romance of Dian Fossey By Harold T. P. Hayes. Simon & Schuster. $21.95. Dian Fossey, the renowned pioneer in the study of Africa's mountain gorillas, had made so many enemies among Rwandans and research students that no one who knew her was surprised by her vicious murder in 1985 at her
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 "Birmingham Evening Mail (England)")
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INSIGHT INTO GORILLA FILM; Conservationist reveals true story behind movie.
Birmingham Evening Mail (England)
; ONE of Britain's leading conservationists will be in Birmingham next month - to tell the true story behind the Gorillas in the Mist film. Ian Redmond, who was a research assistant with Dian Fossey - the subject of the film - is to give an illustrated talk at the University of Birmingham on October
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Researchers track down African gorillas
Chicago Sun-Times
; Two groups of rare mountain gorillas first studied by Dian Fossey have been been found in good condition in east Africa a year after animal researchers were driven out by rebel fighting. Trackers searching the jungles along the Rwanda-Congo border last month found 63 of the animals, representing
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2 of Fossey's gorilla groups found again
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; Two groups of rare mountain gorillas first studied by Dian Fossey have been found in good condition in east Africa a year after animal researchers were driven out by rebel fighting and ethnic violence. Trackers searching the jungles along the Rwanda-Congo border last month found 63 of the animals,
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