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...language of the document was easily skirted by the Germans, who used poison gas to devastating effect in World War I. In April 1915, German soldiers surreptitiously installed 5,730 cylinders of liquid chlorine in the trenches along a four-mile section of no-man's-land near the Belgian town of Ypres. Using a heavy artillery barrage, the Germans were able to shatter the cylinders and release the lethal gas. In a single afternoon, 5,000 French troops were killed and an additional 10,000 were injured. The carnage in Flanders was commemorated in a poem by Wilfred Owen...
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...young man, Ballard was drawn to surrealist art and its realistic images of fantasies. He retains this enthusiasm. Using money he earned from Empire of the Sun, he commissioned an artist to re-create two paintings by the Belgian Paul Delvaux that had been destroyed in London during the Blitz. One of these large canvases sits in Ballard's front parlor, and the other presides over his workroom, an unsettling tableau of dream maidens and bare breasts in an otherwise comfortable setting. "Sadly," Ballard says, "the only surrealists around these days are psychopaths. But we all need to fight...
...Rocky and Barco worried? No, but their handlers are. The two agents are Belgian Malinois, a breed of dog similar to the German shepherd that sniffs out drugs. "The South has never seen anything so good," said Assistant Chief Patrol Agent Jack Vickery, who last week announced that there would be additional protective measures for the dogs. Next week, four new members of the canine corps will report for duty...
Gephardt ran advertisements in South Dakota asserting that Dukakis knew nothing of agriculture, recalling Dukakis' suggestion in Iowa a year ago that farmers should turn to products such as Belgian endive and blueberries. Dukakis countered with an ad saying that "while Dick Gephardt has been publicly promising to fight for you, he's taking political action committee money from corporate insiders and Washington lobbyists...