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...wise and practical decision. Prodded by growing congressional concern and press criticism of CB activities, Nixon launched a review of the program last March. The investigation showed that the Army had developed stocks of deadly diseases such as psittacosis (parrot fever) which could be sprayed over large areas to infect food and water. People in the psittacosis target site would develop acute pulmonary infection, chills, fever; some would become delirious, and ten percent might die. Other diseases, which the Army was prepared to massproduce, were equally lethal, including anthrax, Q-fever and tularemia (rabbit fever...
Retaliation with biological weapons would be risky at best. It would be difficult to ensure that diseases spread among enemy troops would not infect friendly nations. In fact, there could be no guarantee that a retaliatory American germ attack would not cause a pandemic that eventually would infect the U.S. Added to these dangers are the continuing problems of safely developing, storing and transporting the germs...
...three of the biologists were honored for their experiments with bacteriophages, a group of viruses that infect bacteria. Scientists had long known that after it invades a bacterial cell, a virus multiplies rapidly into such great numbers that the cell bursts, releasing a host of identical viruses that seek out and enter other cells, where the process is repeated. By studying these viruses, researchers hoped to learn how more complex forms of life reproduce and pass on hereditary traits...
Still, a patient render can find what he needs to know from Ziegler. He tells the grisly stories-how the Tartars besieged a Crimean port, for instance, catapulating the corpses of their own plague-stricken comrades over the city walls to infect the defenders. But he also writes clearly of dry demography. A deadly series of floods and bad harvests had left much of Europe's population ill nourished and more susceptible to plague. And he is able enough in suggesting some of the plague's historic results. It permanently helped weaken the authority of the Catholic Church...
...provincial town. Sister Jeanne of the Angels, prioress of St. Ursula's Convent, asks Father Urbain Grandier (sung by Baritone Andre Hiolski) to become the cloister's confessor. When the worldly, sensual priest declines the offer, Sister Jeanne has a series of hysterical sexual hallucinations that soon infect other nuns in the convent. Eventually, the sisters accuse Grandier of indecent and immoral behavior, which has led to their being possessed by the devil. The charges coincide with certain local political and ecclesiastical intrigues that find Grandier an ideal scapegoat. Despite agonized hours of torture, the priest denies that...