Nerve Gas Shipment Continued from page 1 in contact with the skin you have one to two hours First aid for the gas includes an injection of atropine and a drug called No 2 Pam Chloride and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation " “If you can keep the man breathing he will be all right” Maj Meschel said During the loading of the special Louisville & Nashville Railroad train chemical mechanical ana animal monitors will be used to detect any possible leaks the Army said The same detectors— including rabbits— will be aboard die train during its trip to the coast The concrete coffins will be placed on a two-inch layer of racking material The vaults are built to withstand pressures of up to 125 lb per square inch In front of the 25-car munitions train will be a pilot train to detect any possible fault in the tracks -or -otherrrailfoad equipment Both trains have absolute right-of-way during the trip to North Carolina the Army said Before the briefing began specially-trained workmen began loading the 6 Vi ton concrete blocks onto the gondola cars The loading will be carried out only during daylight hours for extra safety and Army personnel will handle this job until the train reaches the edge of depot property At that point the train will be taken over by L & N crews The Army gave no timetable for leaving the Richmond depot The whole shipping procedure is known in the Army as “Operation Chase” that stands for “Cutholes and Sink ’em” Among those attending the briefing was Richmond Mayor Wallace Maffett who commented that “the depot has been an economic shot in the arm to many of the people of this city and county They have all the confidence the worid’ and do I in the people who run ine depot and the military” Treaty Initialed Continued froqi page 1 been a major issue in West Germany since the Western allies agreed at the 1945 Potsdam conference to Polish occupation of German territory east of the Oder and Neisse rivers Although the Potsdam agreement specified this was a temporary arrangement until a German ace treaty was concluded Pond’s expulsion of most of the German population and the cold war division of Europe long ago made apparent that Oder-Neisse was in fact Germany’s eastern boundary The Soviet-German treaty does not take up the question of divided Berlin although die Germans wanted guarantees of free access to West Berlin But the Bonn government has already said the West German parliament will not ratify the treaty until a “satisfactory Berlin solution” is worked out at the Big Four ambassadorial talks now being held in West Berlin One of Scheel’s chief aims during his negotiations in Mos cow was to amend the Gromy-ko-Bahr draft to include a reference to Bonn’s constitutional goal of German reunification The Bahr draft aroused opposition in Bonn from the conservative Maffett said “we weren’t consulted when they brought the gas in and we weren’t consulted when they announced plans to transfer it” He said “there is no feeling of fear or anxiety or anything of this nature” Maj Currv told newsmen that he ate his lunch on one of the concrete coffins earlier this week Asked why he said “I had my lunch with me and I was out there There was no particular reason” 4 -- - ' He said the rockets “aren’t leaking now nor have they ever leaked” - -j - In Washington Brig Gen Wiliam W Stone said the Army lopes for quick deterioriation of the coffins so the gas will be diluted and any possible harmful effects ended Russell Train chairman of President Nixon’s Council on Environmental Quality testified Thursday at a House subcommittee hearing - “I - would not feel I or my council have the competence to make a recommendation on delay of the plah" Meanwhile Herman Pollack of the State Department said Great Britain has expressed the concern of Bermuda and the Bahamas but has not filed a protest or asked for a delay He said the United States provided Great Britain with information on the plans Of major officials in Deep South states only Macon Ga Mayor Ronnie Thompson was an opponent of the shipment through his jurisdiction Although he had said local police would block the train if the city could not obtain a federal injunction barring its passage he said Thursday he may allow it to pass if an alternate route would pose a danger of sabotage
