[News Script: Nerve gas] Part: 1 of 2
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NERVE GAS
8/7
WA-.tape time
SIL VTR COMING
ANDREWS:
LIVE
SIL VTR CONING
As for that nerve gas
train..Army officialsSIL VTR COMING ~l
being shipped cross country by.
say chances for an accident arenil..despite the assurances..there are numerous
individuals who expect the worst.TAKE SIL VTR:..........
WARD V/O4
( TAPE TIME _ _ )
Loading of the deadly nerve gas..took place today at
Richmond,Kentuflky and Anniston ,Alabama. 3-thousand-373
rockets encased in steel and concrete coffins will be
railroaded East to North Carolina..and eventual dumping
in I6-thousand feet of Atlantic Ocean water off the
coast of Florida. Along the route..Army officials will
use chemical..mechanical and even animal monitors to sniff
out axny leaks in the coffins.Officials it the Bahamas and
Bermuda .upset over the dumping plans..will send observers
)
to inspect the operation.Britain's Foreign office says the
actual dumping will not take place before August_18th..
and that date was confirmed b y the T--3 Embassy in London.
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Nerve gas], item, August 7, 1970, 10:00 p.m.; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1331786/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.