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...robber, who was wearing a surgical mask, placed the currency in a bag and fled the seen at approximately 11:15 a.m., according to Detective Richard Gardner, the officer who handled the case. The bank has not yet disclosed the amount of money stolen...
According to the student, one of the assailants, who was wearing a mask, demanded that she give her money to him and threatened that his companion had a knife. The second youth pulled out the weapon, which the student said looked like a "steak knife...
...most outspoken critics of U.S. anti-gas equipment is Evan Koslow, former editor of the technical journal Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defense & Technology. He says the M-17 mask "gives very limited gas protection" compared with those produced by other NATO countries, most of which are more modern. He also claims that the protective clothing the U.S. uses can be penetrated by chemical agents...
...Pentagon denies those charges. The M-17 mask and suit, says an Army spokesman, "will protect our soldiers." Martin Calhoun, an analyst at the independent Center for Defense Information in Washington, agrees: "The M-17 does its job." A study by the Government Accounting Office in 1986 found that while U.S. gear was old and bulky, it offered sufficient protection...
...Army's attempts to produce a modern gas mask have cost $100 million but have been delayed 20 years by false starts and contract cancellations. Amid the praise for the Pentagon's high-tech weapons, its low-tech failures should also be noted...