21.   Norway had barred the hunt for baby seals mainly because pictures of hunters bludgeoning them to death with spiked clubs provoked intense international protests.

22.   Norway lifted a seven-year ban last December on the hotly protested commercial killing of baby seals.

23.   Norway last December lifted a seven-year ban on the hotly-protested commercial killing of baby seals.

24.   The government also will allow baby seal pelts from the research hunt to be sold.

25.   The seal hunters say that in the long run it would not be possible to sell furs from adult seals unless they also could offer baby seal furs.

26.   The small country barred the hunt for baby seals mainly because pictures of hunters bludgeoning snowy white pups with spiked clubs provoked intense international protests.

27.   The softer pelts of baby seals are worth much more than those of adults.

28.   Under pressure from hunters eager to harvest valuable pelts, the Norweigan government is considering lifting a five-year ban on hunting baby seals.

29.   Whichever way you look at it, Tibet is the political equivalent of a baby seal being clubbed by a predator in front of an uncaring world.

30.   A Canadian ban on the hunting of baby seals remains in effect, although commercial killing of adult seals is allowed.