Word: visitant
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...gather the material for this week's essay on "The Dilemma of Chemical Warfare," Senior Correspondent John Steele spent three weeks traveling across most of the U.S. Despite the secrecy that shrouds most CBW research, Steele managed to visit nearly every installation where such work is under way. He flew over the Utah salt flats to see the vast reach of the Dugway Proving Grounds; he went to the biological laboratory at Fort Detrick, Md., the Rocky Mountain Arsenal in Denver, the scientific offices at Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland, and the huge storage depot at Tooele, Utah...
...control of other agents, particularly biologicals, is likely to be so difficult that a vast majority of the victims would be noncombatants. Numerous chemical and biological weapons would probably be even more indiscriminate than nuclear bombs in destroying civilian populations. In addition, the ecological damage that CBW would visit upon the earth for generations might well surpass even the effects of nuclear fallout. Says Microbiologist Martin Kaplan, "Sudden disbalances in numbers or the insertion of new infective elements into evolutionally unprepared animal or plant life could produce for an indefinite period an unrecognizable and perhaps unmanageable world from the standpoint...
...stability in the country. It simply showed that the Brazilians had had sufficient warning, and had prepared accordingly. To forestall possible trouble, President Arthur da Costa e Silva's tough military regime had warned Brazil's press not to print anything unfavorable about the Governor's visit. It had also placed some 2,500 of Brazil's most militant students and other dissidents under preventive arrest to make certain that there would be no embarrassing demonstrations...
Rockefeller had to hold over a day in Paraguay because riotous students had made Montevideo, Uruguay's capital and his next scheduled stop, unsafe for a visit. There were a number of firebombings, most aimed against firms with U.S. interests, and terrorists set fire to a General Motors plant, causing damage estimated at $1,000,000. Thus the Governor flew to the resort town of Punta del Este, where Uruguayan officials felt that they could discuss their problems in safety...
...With inexhaustible energy and boundless enthusiasm, she assaults and attracts the public in a succession of day-by-day, city-by-city publicity campaigns. A typical day recently began at 8 a.m. It included a TV show, four radio talks, two newspaper interviews, a general press conference, and a visit with Beatle John Lennon and his wife Yoko...