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...Drugs and the Young," which analyzed the new and disturbing pot culture among the youth of today. This week, the cover deals once again with drugs and the young, but now the subject is the rapid rise of heroin use-infinitely more powerful than marijuana, appallingly addictive, horrifyingly lethal. It is not a story that any one correspondent or bureau could provide in the detail that TIME demands. The reports to Writer Keith Johnson, Editor Jason McManus and Researcher Mary Kelley were the work of 16 correspondents and stringers throughout the U.S. For all, it proved a difficult, delicate...
Nixon declared that the United States would never engage in biological warfare, even to retaliate, and ordered the Defense Department to dispose of existing BW stockpiles. The President also reaffirmed America's "renunciation of the first use of lethal chemical weapons" and extended the renunciation "to the first use of incapacitating chemicals...
...Protocol can be interpreted as a very modest document. It binds nations to refrain from first use only in warfare. It does not exclude research and development, stockpiling, or retaliating with either chemical or biological weapons in international conflict. So if a nation wants to use lethal chemicals to control a domestic riot, the Protocol presents no problem...
Tear gas, commonly pumped down Viet Cong tunnels, can cause death by asphyxiation and thus is as lethal in effect as any other...
...discovery of a new disease is always exciting," Dr. John D. Frame told the New York Society of Tropical Medicine, "especially when it proves to be as contagious, lethal and apparently widespread as Lassa fever...