Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror.
Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror A Special Report by John Pilger. VHS, color, 52 rains. Distributed by Bullfrog Films, P.O. Box 149, Oley, PA 19547. Phone (610) 779-8226, fax (610) 370-1978, www.bullfrogfilmsl.com. Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War Produced...

The Chemical Weapons Convention: political and constitutional issues.
I. INTRODUCTION While 160 nations have signed the Chemical Weapons Convention ("CWC"), only 75 countries have ratified it thus far. On April 25, 1997, after years of political maneuvers, the U.S. Senate finally added the United States to the list, after a vote that was considered too...

Army steamrolls state on chemical training.
Next June, the United States Army Chemical School begins training soldiers at Ft. Leonard Wood in the use of "obscurants" to hide battlefield movements. Some area environmentalists think the Army already is using verbal obscurants to hide its intentions for the Fort, and the damage it will inflict on the...

Confrontation with Iraq: a bankrupt U.S. policy.
The crises in recent months between the United States and Iraq, which twice nearly led to heavy American air strikes against that Arab country, have underscored the serious problems in U.S. policy towards the entire region. The Gulf War coalition built by the Bush administration is in tatters; U.S....

Symposium: U.S. Gulf police: how can it be fixed?
The following is an edited transcript of the fifteenth in a series of Capitol Hill conferences convened by the Middle East Policy Council The meeting was held on April 22, 1998, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building. The moderator/discussant was Chas. W. Freeman, Jr., president of the Middle East Policy...

Missed story syndrome.
It was a warm, sleepy Friday in June, just the kind of afternoon to sneak out of the newsroom early and get a jump on the weekend. When word came that there would be a late-afternoon Pentagon press conference, the timing seemed suspicious to David Martin, who has covered...

WAITING FOR SADDAM.
Will the Iraqi Dictator Keep His Word? BAGHDAD, Iraq--In the 1950s, teens used to play a dangerous game with their cars. The game was called chicken, and in it, two drivers would gun their cars at high speed directly toward each other. The first driver to swerve...

What Was Aboard Flight 1862?
"Mayday, Mayday. We have an emergency.... We have fire on engine number 3." Within minutes of clearing the runway at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport at 6:25 PM. October 4, 1992, El Al flight LY1862 was in trouble. Engine #3 was not only on fire, it had broken free...

States asked to be ready to fight bio-terror.
NEW DELHI: Concerned over the possibility of terrorists using biological and chemical weapons to create large-scale destruction, the Centre has asked states to gear up to face consequences like bird flu, plague and other diseases caused by biological agents. The matter was discussed at a high-level meeting...

High-Tech Ceramic Anti-Terrorist Initiatives Launched.
WESTERVILLE, Ohio -- Matech Advanced Materials, Westlake, Calif., announced the launch of two programs to combat terrorism with high-tech ceramics. The first is aimed at developing a compact, battery- operated, sophisticated sensor array for detecting chemical and biological warfare agents. The other is a microwave-based approach to destroy all...