Thursday Morning
Thu, 14 Sep 1995 07:50:11 -0600 (GMT-0600)

Last few Messages:
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Message 16: Tuesday morning
Message 17: March Alert!!!
Message 18: More on march.
Message 19: Diputado not coming
Message 20: Arnaldo Tupiza death
Message 21: Thursday Morning
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This morning Tom Larson was (as usual) turned away from entering the main gate by the protesters. He went through the Hotel Galapagos grounds, and started climbing over the hotel's second gate, which joins with the station road.

He was seen by one of the women strikers, who ran back to get the men. The came after Tom (not too aggressively it seems) yelling at him that he could not enter the station. Tom pressed on and arrived at the station unharmed.

Linda Cayot said that she and others trying to board launches to come to the station were told by strikers that station people were not to come to the station by any means. She reported by radio that "threats" were made, but as I write this I do not know the nature of the threats.

More later,

Jim

[NOTE: Tom and Linda were members of the international staff of the Research Station, in charge of Environmental Interpretation and Research on Protection of Native Animals, respectively.]