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...claim that yellow rain is instead the feces of wild honeybees. Bee feces, Meselson and a Yale colleague have found, bear strong resemblances--in size, appearance, and characteristics--to alleged samples of yellow rain, many of which in fact contained pollen. Now back from a trip to Thailand, the scientists say they observed honey bees on defecation flights spraying the yellow spots that the government says are the residue of Soviet chemical weapons...
Meselson and Seeley dropped their bee bombshell at a Harvard press conference last week, following a ten-day trip to Thailand in which they observed bee defecation flights and said they were caught in a five-minute shower of bee feces...
...following their trip to Thailand, Meselson and Seeley reiterated their previous skepticism over the scientific quality of the State Department's evidence...
...various parts of Thailand, the scientists found what they said was the first evidence that Southeast Asian honey bees actually do perform defecation flights, which produce yellow spots similar to what the government has alleged is evidence of yellow rain...
Meanwhile, poppy growers in the Golden Crescent, which cuts across Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, rushed to exploit the high prices. But when the rains returned to the Golden Triangle in 1980, bumper crops followed, and suddenly growers from Iran to Thailand were saddled with a burgeoning surplus. Prices for high-grade heroin are still falling, as Asian dealers try to undercut one another in a multimillion-dollar scramble for new users. Hong Kong's 45,000 addicts can now shoot up for about the price of a movie ticket, $3. In Malaysia, a fix costs less than...