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ews kron Senator Harrison Schmitt 248 Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20510 Medla Contact: Anne Gral 202/224- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 17, 1979 Washington, D.C.---U.S. Senator Harrison Schmitt announced today that the Senate Appropriations Committee, on which he serves, inciuded in the. the Federal Bureau of Investigation (Fbl) to maintain its investigation of the cattle mutilations that have occurred in northern New Mexico and elsewhere. Schmitt said such action by the Appropriations Committee is "necessary. due to the continuing widespread problem of cattle mutilations and the need. for federal coordination of the investigation." "I hope that the Comnittee's endorsement of this proposal will increase the FbI's investigative activity so that the answer to this bizarre and grisly mystery will be found," Schmitt added. The Fsl will investigate the incidents that have occurred and which. are prosecutable umder United States Code 1i52 and 1l53.