Butane Trains Stir Fear as Nerve Gas Shipments Move
In Bremen Georgia resident Robert Richie fears nerve gas trains will threaten his town as the Army plans shipments this week. Aniston Army Depot will ship 305 vaults with rockets and Bluegrass Depot in Kentucky will dispatch 113 more as part of burial at sea.
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Army Prepares Gas Shipment With Rail by Rail Inspections
The Army plans 3000 tons of nerve gas rockets moved from Kentucky and Alabama to Wilmington North Carolina by two trains Monday. They will be preceded by pilot trains and a rail by rail inspection along routes from Richmond Kentucky and Anniston Alabama. Florida congressmen urge reconsideration of sea dumping and favor New Jersey as safer site. they cite NAS recommendations and lower monitoring costs.
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U Thant says U S would violate seas convention on nerve gas
United Nations Secretary General U Thant maintains the United States would break international law and a General Assembly resolution by dumping nerve gas into the Atlantic Ocean. He cited the 1958 Geneva Convention on the High Seas and a 1967 assembly resolution about the ocean floor. The State Department rejected the charges, saying disposal would not violate international law.
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Rural Areas Lack Good Medical Care
Washington AP reports rural residents face higher death risk after injuries due to scarce medical facilities. Rural doctors are older with fewer updates, specialists scarce, and hospitals smaller, ill equipped, and hard to access. ratio of doctors falls from 137 to eight per 100 000 in rural counties.
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