Word: poison
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...safety of one of four refugee camps there, Sefika and her family were relatively fortunate. According to some reports, the Iraqis killed at least 2,200 civilians and 250 pesh mergas. Though not all the dead were victims of chemical warfare, the attacks revived ghastly memories of Iraq's poison-gas blitz last March in the village of Halabja, where an estimated 4,000 Kurds died...
Other proposals, however, are vicious, born more of desperation and frustration. In Fort Lauderdale a city commissioner suggested rat poison as a topping for local garbage to discourage foraging. A member of the Los Angeles County board of supervisors advocated placing the homeless on a barge in Los Angeles Harbor. In El Paso last month, four billboards of unknown sponsorship sprang up: PLEASE DON'T GIVE TO BEGGARS -- THEY CAUSE TRAFFIC PROBLEMS. El Paso City Representative Ed Elsey has received complaints that some panhandlers scratch cars with rocks or spit on the windshields if drivers refuse to give. "They...
Still, there have been rocky moments. Earlier this year Moscow charged that Washington's renewed production of chemical killers threatened to torpedo the talks. For its part, the U.S. has charged that the Soviets have been involved with the use of poison gases in Laos, Kampuchea and Afghanistan, allegations that the Soviets strenuously deny. Nonetheless, when the ninth round of bilateral talks concluded in Geneva last month, the U.S. described the negotiations as "cordial, very serious and nonpolemical...
...achieve consensus, the larger issue of global cooperation remains. Despite the more hospitable climate in which the superpowers have been able to negotiate reductions in nuclear forces, neither the U.S. nor the Soviet Union is likely to surrender its chemical-weapon option if smaller nations continue to churn out poison gas. "It is an outstanding problem getting the Third World to recognize that it is better inside the chemical-warfare-disa rmament machine," says Research Fellow Harris. "If it can't be convinced, there won't be a treaty...
Major banks followed the Fed's lead. By week's end the prime lending rate for business borrowers rose from 9.5% to 10%, a three-year high. The rate hike was poison for the stock market: the Dow Jones industrial average fell 73.26 points in two days after the central bank announcement and closed on Friday at 2037.52, down 81.61 for the week...