Word: laotians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences Matthew S. Meselson received the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award for determining the origins of "yellow rain," a mysterious toxin that Laotian anti-communist rebels said caused serious illness in many villages...
...September, 1982, former Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig claimed yellow rain was a biological agent deliberately deployed by the Soviets against the Laotian rebels...
...biochemist added that his research, combined with an Army report in which Laotian refugees identified bee feces as the substance they had seen, convinced Meselson that yellow rain was not a biological weapon...
...Western nations alike are coping with the crush by packing refugees into overcrowded detention centers and camps. Upwards of 14,000 are warehoused in Hong Kong's three "closed centers," the detention areas for those boat people recognized as potentially legitimate refugees. In Thailand . about 300,000 Cambodian, Laotian and Vietnamese refugees are held behind barbed wire, subsisting on meager rations; some have lived this way for ten years. Detention centers at Britain's Heathrow and Gatwick airports shelter some arrivals for as long as a year. In Miami up to 700 refugees, mostly Haitians, have at times been crammed...
Washington State fisheries report finding tumors in the livers of English sole, which dwell on sediment. Posted signs warn, BOTTOMFISH, CRAB AND SHELLFISH MAY BE UNSAFE TO EAT DUE TO POLLUTION. Lest anyone fail to get the message, the caution is printed in seven languages: English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Laotian, Chinese and Korean...