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...included a U.S. pushed 1974 Biological Weapons Convention outlawing bacteriological means of war which was signed by 111 nations chemical weaponry appears to be on the rise. Use of the outlawed substances has recently been proven in more instances than at any time since WWI--"yellow rain" in Laos, Cambodia, and Afghanistan as a result of Soviet-backed or direct Soviet aggression, and by Iraq against Iran. Reports have ranged from "ordinary" use of mustard gas by Iraq to the widespread, unexplained presence of artificial disease-causing toxins in Southeast Asia...
...remains in Switzerland, and her intellectual lover Franz, Sabina, fond of infidelity, leaves Franz just as he leaves his wife for her. Franz, whose unfulfilled love for Sabina makes him more beautiful than before, attracts a student mistress whom he loves in Sabina's stead. He dies in Cambodia, on a trip for intellectuals who want to protest the treatment Cambodia has received. Confronted with muggers who demand his money, Franz chooses to fight them, remembering that Sabina admired his physical strength; he dies from the injuries they inflict. Franz is betrayed by his love and idealism; Tomas is overcome...
...announcement by Harvard's Matthew S. Meselson, Cabot Professor of Natural Sciences, and Thomas D. Seeley, a Yale biology professor, seems likely only to fuel further the debate over U.S. government charges that the Soviet Union and its allies are waging chemical warfare in Laos, Cambodia, and Afghanistan...
...chief of staff when the Watergate scandal was approaching its climax, Haig resisted efforts by Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski to obtain Oval Office tapes that ultimately discredited Nixon. Critics also faulted Haig for having helped Nixon and Kissinger conduct the war in Viet Nam, including the 1970 incursion into Cambodia. Yet another cloud over his nomination was the persistent though contested allegation that the Nixon Administration ordered the CIA to organize the 1973 military coup
...never before my confirmation had there been hearings so openly conducted on ideological grounds rather than merely political ones. For some men there is a high emotive content in terms that apply to me: soldier, Republican, conservative, patriot. Add to that tinder the burning issues of Watergate, Viet Nam, Cambodia, wiretaps, the CIA, Chile, and you have the makings of a pretty hot time...