Word: protocols
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WHEN President Nixon submits the Geneva Protocol of 1925 to the Senate this month for ratification, a nationwide coalition of concerned citizens will be pressuring the Senate to include irritant gases and anti-plant chemicals within its scope...
...Protocol by its very words prohibits the use of CBW weapons in war," he said. "For 45 years, from the end of World War I until our use of tear gas in Vietnam, all the important powers understood this distinction and did not use tear gas in any war. If anyone doesn't see the distinction now. it's because they don't want to see it," he said...
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...
...Brian Walsh '72, one of the organizers of the petition, said, "We want the Senate to make certain that U.S. acceptance of the Protocol includes the prohibition of tear gas and defoliants. We hope to educate the public as to the effect of these agents on the ecology of Vietnam...
...Most of the nations which ratified the Protocol agreed in 1930 with the declared British position that "the use in war of 'other' gases, including lachrymatory [tear] gases was prohibited." The British are currently trying to redefine their position...