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Young children have a maddening way of getting into bottles of potentially lethal medicines and household products. Last year, despite countless stomach pumpings in hospital emergency rooms, more than 350 tots died as a result of this deadly tendency. Such fatalities may soon be greatly reduced, thanks to a new container that has proved itself relatively impregnable in youthful hands...
From the U.S. to Sweden to Taiwan, many nations are exploring the potential of CBW, and Soviet scientists are perhaps the busiest in the field. The Russian army has chemical-war fare specialists down to the battalion level, and the Russians probably provided the lethal nerve gas used by the Egyptians in Yemen last year...
While politicians wrangled over firearms, other Americans continued to settle their private arguments with guns and other lethal instruments...
...tough Sullivan law?they had pistol permits. Unless an amateur psychiatrist in a gun shop or a police station had recognized him as a paranoid schizophrenic, Charles Whitman, the Texas Tower sniper who killed or wounded 46 people two years ago, would have been able to assemble his lethal armory despite strict gun controls. Sirhan Sirhan violated three California laws in merely possessing the pistol he used to kill Bobby Kennedy, but he still had the weapon. On the other hand, reasonable laws might have prevented Lee Harvey Oswald from committing what Lyndon Johnson called "murder by mail order"; Oswald...
...Lethal Fragments. The hospital's doctors had already performed a tracheotomy making an entrance in his throat for a tube leading to a positive-pressure machine that was pumping air in and out of his lungs. Electrodes from an electrocardiograph were taped to the Senator's chest and extremities in order to monitor his heart. X rays of his head and chest were taken. He had been receiving whole-blood transfusions ever since he had arrived...