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...will have to face up to the reality that the taboo on the use of chemical weapons has been weakened, if not destroyed. There is evidence that Iran has used chemical weapons also, although to a far lesser degree than Iraq. As many as 20 countries are believed to possess chemical weapons or the capability to produce them. Nonetheless, besides Iraq, only the U.S. and the Soviet Union have admitted owning chemical arsenals. But the superpowers are not the real threat. Specialists worry about countries like Libya, Burma, Cuba, Peru, Ethiopia and Viet Nam, some of which are believed...
Other countries are emphasizing defensive measures. Israel, widely assumed to possess a chemical arsenal, has purchased gas masks for its entire civilian population of 4.2 million and stored them throughout the country. The Israeli army medical corps has developed an injection that neutralizes gases. The investment in time and money stems from a fear of Syrian chemical attacks on Israeli air bases and military installations. According to the Israelis, a military research institute north of Damascus code-named Sers is preparing a new warhead for Syria's Soviet-made Scud B ground-to-ground missiles, which have a range...
...rages Ella is transmitting to him, Allan bites through his lip, and Ella, with a lover's bold devotion, gently licks the blood. She is not so gentle in drawing blood from the women she sees as rivals for the man and the mind she must possess...
...Gregory Nava's 1983 film El Norte, Rosa and her brother Enrique embark on a perilous pilgrimage toward the golden north. When they eventually reach California, they do find honest work and small incomes -- the money dreams can buy. But it is a rasping irony to possess so little when surrounded by too much. Up close the dream looks fragile and fraudulent. You crush it, and everything vanishes...
...have become "professionalized" and therefore lack true dedication to their cause, like the heroic figures of the 1960s. This criticism fails to understand how grass-roots movements must develop. Leftist movements in this country--regardless of the issue--generally lack the financial strength and political contacts that their opponents possess...