Word: gulf
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POISONS FROM THE GULF...
...possibility that combinations of chemicals, some of them known toxins, have caused effects in Gulf War veterans [WORLD, Sept. 30] is based upon a well-established premise: adverse drug interactions. Known instances of adverse chemical reactions are numerous. However, even more insidious hazards can arise from interaction of substances that alone pose no recognized threat to life and health...
...that reason, I was appalled to read in Mark Thompson's story "The Gulf War Poisons Seep Out" that U.S. Army Engineers "blew up" nerve-gas-weapons depots in Iraq in 1991. Who made the decision to risk blowing up the chemical and biological ammunition in situ? Was the risk factor properly appraised, not only with regard to allied troops temporarily present in the vicinity of the destruction site but also with regard to the Iraqi civilian population? If "blowing up" is a correct description of what happened, and if even minute quantities of nerve gas can be a severe...
...political realities on the ground, will not stay bought. The fact that one party of Kurds begged the succor of Saddam, the man who gassed about 4,000 Kurds only eight years earlier, should not be surprising to anyone who remembers that Iraq asked Iran for help during the Gulf War only a few years after the long and bloody struggle between their two countries. Meanwhile Washington, $5 trillion-plus in debt, deploys to the region a military force, deemed necessary to thwart Saddam's ambitions, that costs about $40 billion a year. O. VOLLEY Estepona, Spain
...transformation of Mexico from a smalltime marijuana supplier to a clearinghouse for huge cocaine shipments. But prosecutors referred to Garcia Abrego throughout the trial as "the big cheese," it is unlikely that his internment will do much to diminish the flow of drugs across the border. "Abrego's Gulf Cartel is essentially a family-run operation," says TIME's Laura Lopez. "It is likely that one of his relatives will just step in and keep it going." -->