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...danger is that old diseases may be spread in new ways, probably by "aerosols" (fine mists) released from aircraft or fired from offshore submarines. Saboteurs could also release such mists, and germs could be used against domestic animals and growing crops as well as against people. But the booklet points out that nearly all infectious diseases can be prevented or cured. BW, it says, "is a special weapon for use against special targets. No kind of biological warfare could kill or sicken every person in a large area or city...
...serious a threat to the nation is biological warfare? Last week, in a 30-page booklet entitled What You Should Know About Biological Warfare, the federal Civil Defense Administration gave an answer designed to take much of the mystery and Sunday-supplement terror out of the subject. CDA's main point: disease germs are valuable as a military weapon, and may be used in war, but no man-made pestilence is likely to sweep the whole...
...booklet gives six "survival secrets for biological warfare": ¶ Keep yourself and your home clean, i.e., don't make things easy for the germs. ¶ Report sickness promptly, and thus help authorities to spot a BW attack. ¶ Give all possible help to authorities, i.e., hold still and give a blood sample or take a shot in the arm. ¶ Don't rush outside immediately after a bombing. The germs may be waiting. ¶ Don't take chances with food and water in open containers until the danger is over. ¶ Don't start rumors...
Last month, Dean Watson issued an eight page booklet of rules which ignored the Council's suggestions for rule revisions. Council's president Richard M. Sandler '52 then asked Watson for a letter explaining his rejections of the Council's proposals...
...statement of its "financing, circulation, authorship, contents, and policy to give assurances that it is a Harvard students enterprise and financially responsible." Last December the Council recommended that this extra requirement be deleted on the grounds that it was redundant: there are, in fact, specific rules, elsewhere in the booklet that are entirely sufficient to cover both these potential dangers. Watson and the Faculty Committee are afraid that outsides powers will dominate the policies of a new publication; but have they considered the very first rule in the booklet? "Recognized organizations must maintain their local autonomy. The criterion for local...