Word: poisons
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...peasants of Binhdinh province say the rats this year are thick as a man's leg from eating the crops. Is there no rat poison available? Yes, there is the kind sold by the government for $1.65 a lb., but it seems to make the rats fatter and healthier. A better poison is sold by merchants for $3 a lb.-too expensive. Actually, both are the same-but the one poison has been diluted to ineffectiveness by government officials who sell the real thing on the black market...
...Poland's most influential Communist authors has been sentenced to a year in prison. The charge: writing poison-pen letters to the regime's highest officials...
...seen in the public parts of the museum, and the zoologists and students who work in the laboratories are almost pleased to have them around. No one yet has been bitten; laetas are shy and rarely attack man. But a bite is sharp and painful, and the slow-acting poison can be dangerous. For at least 24 hours the victim shows no symptoms; then a swelling appears and the site of the bite turns into a large, purplish pimple that heals slowly. In a few cases there is hemolysis (destruction of red blood cells), which may be fatal...
...have from the beginning said that they would force the capitalistic countries to "spend themselves to destruction." This we are doing beautifully from within. They also conquer by infiltration-especially through capturing the minds of our youth with ideas that seem highly idealistic on the surface but are pure poison underneath. Have you talked with high school and college students on this subject lately? I have-and felt the hair rise on my neck...
...Katanga's secessionist regime, it was a trifle embarrassing. Here was its stout U.S. supporter. Connecticut Senator Thomas J. Dodd, in town only three days after Katanga President Moise Tshombe was calling on his people to fight the United Nations troops with "poison arrows, spears, axes and picks." To smooth things over, Tshombe and some of his Cabinet ministers mingled pleasantly with U.N. officers at the U.S. consul's cocktail party honoring Democrat Dodd's arrival. But neither Tshombe nor anyone else could control the erratic, excitable Katanga soldiers who had been listening to the President...