Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chemical and biological agents have always been among the most repugnant weapons in the nation's arsenal. The Pentagon, however, has insisted that development of these arcane armaments was necessary to match the Soviet capability of waging CB warfare. Last week President Nixon rebuffed the generals' argument. He announced that the U.S. would never use germ warfare-either offensively or defensively-and ordered the existing stocks of deadly toxins destroyed. As for remaining lethal chemical weapons, the President reiterated the longstanding American policy that they would only be used in retaliation for a similar attack...
...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...
...Viet Nam. But the proscribing of germ warfare and the restated strictures on chemical warfare provide concrete evidence of America's strong desire to slow down the arms race. Together with the joint signing of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty by the U.S. and the Soviets (see THE WORLD), Nixon's announcement should add impetus to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks now going on in Helsinki...
...boss's background suggests what is expected. For a decade, Shakespeare-a graduate of Holy Cross and a World War II Navy veteran-was a senior vice president and second in command at CBS. Then he lost out in a company power struggle. In 1968, he ran Richard Nixon's successful television campaign and gained a cynical, ruthless reputation that made him the villain of Joe McGinniss' book, The Selling of the President 1968. In one incident, McGinniss reports that Shakespeare, when told of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, exulted: "What a break! This Czech thing...
Wallace's announcement will provoke no joy in the White House. To ensure his re-election in 1972, President Nixon wants to hold those Southern states that supported him in 1968 and pick up at least two of the five that supported Wallace. His Southern strategy is aimed at convincing the South's conservatives that the Republican Party offers them permanent shelter. It is designed also to deny Democrats the sure votes they once could count on in Dixie. Wallace's re-emergence could once again cost Nixon the electoral votes of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana...