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Thus began the long-planned airlift of 888 nerve gas bombs from Denver to Tooele Army Depot in western Utah. Each slug-shaped bomb is 7 ft. long and packed with 346 Ibs. of a clear, odorless liquid called GB. A good whiff or a splash on the skin can kill a human being within minutes. Dubbed "Weteyes" because tears are one of the first symptoms of exposure, the bombs were built for the U.S. Navy in 1969 and stored just three miles north of Stapleton. But the Weteyes were too close for comfort for many Denverites, and lobbying...
...FALLOWS points out, there are two rigid and opposing orthodoxies on the question of national defense. On the left, activists splash blood on the Pentagon and protest every weapons system the military requests. From the right, tougher-than-thou Congressmen endorse every bad idea that comes out of Lockheed, lest the Russians gain an edge. And in the middle there's been next to no one combining expertise and objectivity. Fallows, one of the nation's best reporters, begins to fill that center with his new bestseller, National Defense...
...fibers, three or four dog hairs and one loud splash. Slim shreds of evidence, but last week they were enough to convince a Georgia magistrate that Wayne Bertram Williams, 23, should face a grand jury for possible indictment in the murder of Nathaniel Cater, 27, the most recent of the 28 young blacks found slain in Atlanta. Williams showed no emotion as Magistrate Albert Thompson read the decision upholding the arrest. Only later, as he was transferred back to his 6-ft. by 12-ft. isolation cell in Fulton County Jail, did the suspect comment: "This is ridiculous...
Police Cadet Freddy Jacobs testified that he saw Williams driving "really slow" and unusually close to the edge of the bridge that morning after another policeman had reported a loud splashing sound. Lieut. J.T. Campbell testified that he had helped recover Cater's body from the river two days later. In crossexamination, Williams' attorneys tried to show that the splash could have been made by a beaver. Later, Welcome pointed out that "no one even saw Williams' car stop that night on the bridge." Throwing the 146-lb. Cater from a moving automobile, she said, would have...
...officials insist they had no legal right to bring Williams to their headquarters on the basis of a splash. Only when the body of Nathaniel Cater, 27, the 28th and most recent victim, was found in the Chattahoochee two days later were the agents justified in taking action. The one "vulnerability" in the handling of the case, said an FBI official, was the "looseness of surveillance" shortly after the May 22 incident. According to neighbors, Williams removed several boxes from his home the following day. The boxes "could be irrelevant." said the official, "but they also could be the very...