Infected meat or a weapon ?
Two things that seem to be causing the Carter Administration continuing woe these days are 1) overreacting and 2) sending out conflicting signals, especially where the Soviet Union is concerned. Consider the big anthrax scare.
Last week a State Department spokesman announced that there were "disturbing indications" that the Soviets might have violated the terms of the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention, which bans the production and stockpiling of germ-warfare weapons. As evidence, the spokesman cited a mysterious epidemic last spring that apparently killed hundreds of people in Sverdlovsk, a city of 1.2 million some 850 miles...
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