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...been using herbicides and CS, a tear-gas riot-control agent, in Viet Nam, and there is genuine legal confusion over whether Rogers' interpretation is correct. But why should the Geneva Protocol not be considered to forbid all forms of chemical and biological warfare? Harvard Biologist Matthew Meselson, who spent six weeks in Viet Nam last summer, argues that CS has been decreasingly useful because of enemy countermeasures that range from Soviet-made gas masks to face cloths soaked in urine; even Robert Komer, who ran the pacification program under Lyndon Johnson, concedes that defoliants and crop-destroying agents...
Federal regulations forbid a bank to give customers premiums that are worth more than the interest that they would otherwise receive. Still, the gift promotion has the appearance of a bargain. So far the Cadillac offer has attracted two depositors, and 75 others have responded to the lure of a color-TV set. One woman is being measured for a mink coat...
...abolishing of hazing is not so universally considered an unmixed good among either alumni or undergraduates as the college papers have represented, still the fact that hazing and the kindred practice of rushing have become customs of the past would justify the Seniors, should they see fit, to forbid the rush of the Sophomores and Freshmen on Class...
When he was 12, Cahalan was pitching for a Little League team that drew from an area with a 30-mile radius. But the rules forbid a radium in excess of ten miles. So the team was broken up, and since he had nothing else to do that summer, Cahalan started swimming...
Even parole supervision is often cursory and capricious. Many parole agents handle more than 100 cases; one 15-minute interview per month per man is typical. The agents can also rule a parolee's entire life, even forbid him to see or marry his girl, all on pain of reimprisonment?a usually unappealable decision made by parole agents, who thus have a rarely examined effect on the repeater rate. To test their judgment, Criminologists James Robison and Paul Takagi once submitted ten hypothetical parole-violator cases to 316 agents in California. Only five voted to reimprison all ten men; half...