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Mary I. Bunting, president of Radcliffe, agreed on Friday to support a petition asking the United States Senate to ratify the Geneva Protocol of 1925 "with the expressed understanding that irritant gases and anti-plant chemicals are to be included within its scope...
...Protocol Bans...
...Geneva Protocol prohibits the use in war of "asphyxiating, poisonous, or other gases, and of all analogous liquids. materials or devices" and "the use of bacteriological methods of warfare." The Protocol does not prohibit either research and development of CBW weapons or their retaliatory use, nor does it prohibit the use of gas for police purposes...
President Nixon will submit the Protocol to the Senate for ratification at the beginning of March. Some observers have said that if the Senate does ratify the Protocol, the Executive Branch may circulate letters to the other signatories explaining that the U.S. position does not interpret the Protocol to cover tear gases anddefoliants, both of which are now being used in Vietnam...
Eighty-four nations have ratified the Protocol. The United States, which helped write the Protocol, and Japan are the only major industrial nations now with holding ratification...