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Last year Yohe and wideout Brian Barringer (49 catches, two TDs) were a great act. But who will take Barringer's place as co-pilot of Air Yohe? Neil Phillips, Barringer's back-up last year, caught 14 passes, two for touch-downs. After him, the air arsenal begins to thin. Mark Bianchi, Mike Oehmler and Phillips' varsity basketball teammate, Kevin Collins, are all untried weapons...
Other countries are emphasizing defensive measures. Israel, widely assumed to possess a chemical arsenal, has purchased gas masks for its entire civilian population of 4.2 million and stored them throughout the country. The Israeli army medical corps has developed an injection that neutralizes gases. The investment in time and money stems from a fear of Syrian chemical attacks on Israeli air bases and military installations. According to the Israelis, a military research institute north of Damascus code-named Sers is preparing a new warhead for Syria's Soviet-made Scud B ground-to-ground missiles, which have a range...
...DEADLY FORCE AUTHORIZED, warn the prominently displayed red-and-white signs at the U.S. Army arsenal at Pine Bluff, Ark. Situated about 35 miles from Little Rock, off a busy state highway, the facility is the only producer of toxins for chemical weapons in the U.S. Since work resumed in December after a 19-year halt, the arsenal has manufactured a chemical called DF, which becomes nerve gas when mixed with alcohol. Workers are also busy incinerating some 94,000 lbs. of an obsolete hallucinogenic agent known as BZ. Yet area residents profess to have few fears about the facility...
Pine Bluff is the only Army facility that makes lethal chemical compounds, but it is one of eight around the country where they are stored.* The entire U.S. arsenal consists of some 30,000 tons of deadly liquids and gases. About two-thirds of that hoard is kept in drums; the rest is contained in weapons ranging from some 3 million artillery rounds to nearly 500,000 rockets. Though virtually all are scheduled to be destroyed by the mid-1990s, the stockpiles have raised safety issues. Congress learned last April that the Army has discovered more than 1,000 leaking...
Nonetheless, the Democrat-controlled Congress remains uneasy over the prospect of rebuilding the U.S. chemical arsenal. While the Reagan Administration views such weapons as a deterrent against aggression, lawmakers earlier this year slashed $109 million from a Defense Department request for $186 million for chemical arms. Opponents have gained another powerful ally in the U.S. chemical industry. In April, Robert Roland, president of the Chemical Manufacturers Association, which represents the major U.S. chemical companies, testified before Congress for a "strong, effective international treaty" to ban such weapons. Representatives of U.S., Canadian, Japanese and European firms are now drafting...