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...most chilling news of the week was evidence that Iraq had once again used chemical weapons against its enemy. Physicians in London, Vienna, Munich and other West European cities confirmed that about 50 Iranian soldiers flown to their medical centers for treatment had been exposed to mustard gas. In Washington, Secretary of State George Shultz bluntly informed Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz of U.S. objections to the use of chemical weapons, noting that Iraq is a signatory of the Geneva Protocol of 1925, which prohibits them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf Trading Blows: Chemical warfare, Part II | 4/8/1985 | See Source »

Justice Greancy stipulated that the North Cambridge laboratory may use no more than 100 ml. of liquefied chemical agents--Savrin (GB). Soman (GD). (V.N.). Mustard (HD) and, Lewisite--at any one time on the site...

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, | Title: Court Allows Local Laboratory To Resume Nerve Gas Testing | 3/19/1985 | See Source »

...company has said it conducts experiments with nerve and mustard gas in order to help the U.S. defend against chemical warfare and to develop protective clothing for the outlawed use of the substances...

Author: By D.joseph Menn, | Title: City Wins Skirmish In Nerve Gas War | 12/18/1984 | See Source »

Ellis Island, the most ambitious network mini-series of the season thus far, starts out with a reasonable plan: to pluck four individuals from the huddled masses who came to these shores and tell their stories. Unfortunately, the seven-hour drama (based on a novel by Fred Mustard Stewart, who also had a hand in the teleplay) seems less interested in chronicling the immigrant experience than in salvaging the wretched refuse of scores of bad Hollywood movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Small World | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

...this arguably courageous stand in favor of active government makes no impact, because Cuomo never works through the practical arguments of why we should accept liberalism or what exactly his version of liberalism means beyond welfare politics. Ronald Reagan has emphatically shown that liberalism does not cut the mustard politically in the '80s, but Cuomo doesn't go beyond lofty rhetoric in refuting this limited vision...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Connect-the-Dot Politics | 6/6/1984 | See Source »

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