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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chemical arsenals. But the superpowers are not the real threat. Specialists worry about countries like Libya, Burma, Cuba, Peru, Ethiopia and Viet Nam, some of which are believed to have employed chemical weapons in battle. Even terrorist groups and drug runners can get their hands on poison gases. Warns Elisa Harris, a visiting research fellow at Britain's Royal United Services Institute for Defense Studies: "Other Third World countries can now look at Iraq and think, 'If I find a situation in which chemical warfare will help militarily, I might go ahead because obviously I might not have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chemical Warfare | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

...students, Leverett residents Elisa Fernandez '88 and Andrea N. Shlipak '88, divided 10 weeks' time among formal leadership classes, the Outward Bound program and self-designed internships...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Selected For Leadership | 9/29/1987 | See Source »

...children played games, listened to an impromptu concert by the Krokodiloes, and danced to the Harvard songs and show tunes of the Harvard band, said Elisa Fernandez '88, who, with Melissa Bayer '88 and Margaret Watt '88, co-organized the event. Afterward, the children were shuttled to the Science Center to see a special showing of "Superman...

Author: By Jonathan S. Leff, | Title: PBH Hosts Field Day For 250 Local Children | 5/4/1987 | See Source »

Since we find that The Crimson and its staff are both biased and one-sided, we have decided that as of the date that this letter is received we no longer want to talk with The Crimson reporters about our causes or anything else. Elisa Cantone Irene Kelley Mary McCarthy

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Smoking Ban | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

...annual cost of all this testing, including the ELISA, confirmation tests and counseling, would probably be counted in the billions. But the personal and emotional costs of testing are immeasurable. "The test tends to rip people's lives apart," says Dooley Worth, who leads a support group of high- risk women, many of them former intravenous drug users, in Manhattan. "I've even seen couples who are both negative break up because of questions raised from just getting the test." For those who test positive, the psychological effect is devastating. And critics of mass testing question the ethics of informing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: Putting Aids to The Test | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

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