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But the draft will never have to be written. On Feb. 8 a U.S. district court in Washington, B.C., ruled that the Army could proceed with its "blackbird control program," and last week the U.S. Court of Appeals upheld that decision. Now all the Army has to do is hope for a prolonged cold spell.
* They were imported from Europe in the 1890s by a wealthy New York drug manufacturer who wanted to establish in the U.S. all the birds mentioned anywhere in Shakespeare's works. Unfortunately, the starling was mentioned once in Henry IV, Part I: "Nay, I'll have a starling shall be taught to speak nothing but 'Mortimer.' "