Word: war
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Many military planners operate on the theory that CBW is no better or worse than any other instrument of war; as long as war is a possibility, they say, all instruments must be developed or at least tested. There are differences with CBW, however. While the dispersal of some chemicals can be confined to limited areas, depending on weather conditions and the method of dispersal (from hand-held weapons to aerial sprays), the 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...
...jogging in the larger garden of the Hôtel de Matignon, traditional home of France's Premiers. The handsome onetime Resistance leader was a sensible choice by President Pompidou. He is a "historical Gaullist," that is, one who has followed the general since World War II. He was on terms close enough so that he received a portrait from De Gaulle inscribed "to my dear comrade-in-arms...
...animosities of Arabs and Israelis are exacerbated by a continuing war on each other's religious, historic and sentimental symbols. Arabs destroyed or damaged 80 places of Jewish worship when they controlled Jerusalem, turning two synagogues into public lavatories. Last week the Israelis in turn gave their enemies cause for offense, though on a lesser and more personal level. They demolished the childhood home of Yasser Arafat (TIME cover, Dec. 13), leader of Al-Fatah, the largest group of Arab fedayeen commandos...
...Dimensional Man." Danny and some 2,500 Italian students turned out to jeer their former idol following trumped-up charges made by U.S. Communist Party Chief Gus Hall at a Moscow press conference. Hall claimed that Marcuse had been "exposed as working for the CIA since World War II" and was "part of a plot to get youth moving toward radicalism but to divert them before they reached a revolutionary position." Marcuse's reply: "Of course the man is an idiot...
Despite its wildfire success at campus disruption, S.D.S. has lost any firm sense of direction, if it ever had one. The Paris peace talks have clouded one of its central issues, the Viet Nam war. Blacks have pre-empted the fight against racism, and now often reject any association with white militant students. Universities are struggling to reform their structures and procedures-partly, of course, in response to S.D.S. demands and disruptive activities...