NATION IN BRIEF : WASHINGTON, D.C. : Sullivan Assails Foes of Animal Research

Health and Human Services Secretary Louis W. Sullivan, the nation’s top health official, portrayed animal rights activists as “terrorists” and said their tactics jeopardize the future of disease-curing experiments. “Animal research has saved millions of human lives,” Sullivan said. “It is an integral part of mankind’s striving for the betterment of humanity. I am saddened and a bit angry that we have to put up with major disruptions to science by so-called animal activists who are, in fact, nothing more than animal rights terrorists.” Animal rights activists, who plan to march here Sunday, responded that Sullivan’s remarks were appalling. They said he was ignoring the continuing exploitation of laboratory animals.