Word: useful
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...among the most repugnant weapons in the nation's arsenal. The Pentagon, however, has insisted that development of these arcane armaments was necessary to match the Soviet capability of waging CB warfare. Last week President Nixon rebuffed the generals' argument. He announced that the U.S. would never use germ warfare-either offensively or defensively-and ordered the existing stocks of deadly toxins destroyed. As for remaining lethal chemical weapons, the President reiterated the longstanding American policy that they would only be used in retaliation for a similar attack...
During the course of the study, representatives of the Joint Chiefs of Staff could not provide a realistic enough contingency in which they would want to use biological weapons, but they argued nonetheless against the destruction of the germ stocks and the ban on offensive germ-warfare research. The Joint Chiefs contended, unsuccessfully, that the U.S. should preserve its option to "retaliate in kind" to germ attacks from the enemy-specifically, Russia...
...comfort. It had grown to more than 200 people and an aid budget of $30 million a year. Nowadays, Sihanouk's chief fear is that a Communist victory in Viet Nam might encourage the 40,000 uninvited North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops who now use Cambodia as a sanctuary to stay on indefinitely. To counterbalance that threat, Sihanouk began warming to Washington a year...
...International Nickel Co., the world's largest producer, followed an expensive settlement of a 128-day strike at its Ontario mines by announcing a 24% price increase. The move is bound to have major effects in the U.S. Stainless-steel producers, who use 37% of all nickel, are expected to increase prices shortly, for the third time since January. From nickel-plated auto bumpers to jet engines, many products are sure to cost more...
With my second production, The Empire Builders, I made use of all the physical aids which were available at the Loeb, trying to incorporate as much of the technical aspects as possible to inject the highest degree of mod Americana into the production. Relevancy was to me then the most important criterion...