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mevans@netcom.com (Maynard H. Evans) writes:


>This from the AP today: Army to burn Chemical Weapons

>To give some insight, I  have appended the full text of the Philadelphia
>Inquirers Russian report of last December reporting the lethal results
>of the Russian burning of chemical agents.

>Article 1.) Army to Burn Chemical Weapons
>Article 2.) CHEMICAL-ARMS PRODUCTION KILLED THOUSANDS, RUSSIANS SAY THE
>SCIENTISTS SAID THOUSANDS  OF  WORKERS  DIED.  THEY  ALSO  CITED
>CONGENITAL  ILLNESSES AND ECOLOGICAL DAMAGE. Philadelphia Inquirer (PI)
>- FRIDAY December 24, 1993

>I  am posting them both because our government simply will not
>learn from the Russian Experience and none of the depots are located in
>Washington, DC.

Well, as the second article points out, the 'Russian Experience' is
very different from what is intended here. I'll include the pertinent
sections below:


>From the Philadelphia Inquirer, December 24, 1993

>CHEMICAL-ARMS PRODUCTION KILLED THOUSANDS, RUSSIANS SAY THE SCIENTISTS
>SAID THOUSANDS  OF WORKERS  DIED.  THEY  ALSO  CITED  CONGENITAL
>ILLNESSES AND ECOLOGICAL DAMAGE.

>Philadelphia Inquirer (PI) - FRIDAY
>December 24, 1993 By: Sergei Shargorodsky, ASSOCIATED PRESS Edition:

>MOSCOW - Tens of thousands of workers died while producing chemical
>weapons in  the former Soviet  Union,  and  about  one  million  people
>live  in contaminated  areas  where  cancer rates are high and many
>babies are born sick or abnormal, Russian scientists said yesterday.

>...Fyodorov
>estimated that "tens of thousands" of plant workers died, most before
>the mid-1950s, from effects of poisonous substances. World  War  II-era
>factories  had no proper means of protection, dumped contaminated  water
>into rivers, could not filter gas discharges and burned dangerous
>materials such as mustard gas at open sites, he said.
                                  ^^^^^^^^^^
>(reprinted without permission)

Hmm.. open sites. Doesn't sound like what the Army is planning on
doing here...



>                        Maynard H. Evans <mevans@netcom.com>



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