Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thirty-four miles southeast, the selfconsciously self-aware Anglos who live in Santa Fe like to talk reverently about "the energy that comes off the mountains." They mean spiritual, natural, ancestral energy, not the kind that could come off the high-tech Machu Picchu on the hill. In Los Alamos, the holistic weapons careerists in the cafeteria choose beansprouts and yogurt and reject actual nuclear war as theoretically implausible. It is downright rude in Los Alamos for an outsider-or even an insider-to raise questions concerning war or peace. The first causes moral qualm, the second unemployment...
With his ample girth, trademark black mustache and a twinkle in his eyes, Raul Ricardo Alfonsin Foulkes seems the quintessential Argentine. Born in the provincial city of Chascomus (pop. 30,000), 78 miles southeast of Buenos Aires, Alfonsin was the oldest of five children. His parents made a comfortable living running a general store founded by his great-grandfather, who emigrated from the Spanish province of Galicia in 1870. His father, Serafin, was a fervent supporter of the Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War, and that sense of commitment seemed to rub off on his son. Says Alfonsin...
Schwartzstein: Let's get back to the larger question. To be properly certain. I think you'd have to ask several different questions. First of all, can one draw the conclusion that chemical warfare has been waged in southeast Asia? If so, can one identify substances? And, as part of that, can one accept the State Department conclusion that among those substances that have been used are mycotoxins? I think the problem of the use of the term yellow rain is it's become almost a generic term for chemical warfare. It's been popularized. I use it to mean...
Meselson: I would use it to mean the alleged agent of toxic warfare in Southeast Asia. The test of a good definition is whether it applies consistently to something out in the real world. In this case there is such a test. It is this: There have been sixteen cases of which I'm aware where people have brought samples of something to embassy officials--the U.S. embassy, the Canadian embassy, the Australian embassy--or Thai government officials, United Nations officials, British officials. Every one, with no exception, turned out to be pollen, but people alleged that this...
...with the microscope. They contain the same high content of pollen, pollen from plants that are mainly pollinated by insects, from plants all of whose pollen gathered by bees, and from plants which are found, all of them, in South Asia, and some of them found nowhere else but Southeast Asia. The spots also looked at under the microscope seem to contain hairs of bees...