Sixth Column
Helen & Bob
The Sacramento Bee, Monday 16 Nov 1998World News, Page A10
Dateline Jerusalem-- Bee News Services
New Biological Weapon??
Israel denied Sunday it is trying to identify genes unique to Arabs in order to target them with a biological weapon that would leave Jews unharmed. London's Sunday Times had reported that Israeli scientists were trying to create a genetically modified bacterium or virus that attacks only people who carry specific genes.
Story continues on for 3 more paragraph, about rumors and denials.
RAH, in Sixth Column (issued IIRC also as The Day after Tomorrow) had a racially specific weapon, but used (again, IIRC) a harmonic (?) vibration to do the same thing.
Comments???
Bob
y...@my-dejanews.com
Helen & Bob <chil...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
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What sort of comments? I've heard about research into such weapons about 15
years ago while I was still in the USSR. It was one of those exposes about the
horrible things the imperialists are planning. (Everybody assumed that our own
courageous red scientists were doing the same thing.) To hear about Israel
doing this, however, is news to me.
Yisroel Markov Member DNRC
Boston, Clinton Protectorate of Massachusetts
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Helen & Bob
y...@my-dejanews.com wrote:
Really? 15 years ago?? This news item was the first I have ever heard of it.
Which goes to show that i may have been out of touch in some areas.
Bob
John M. Atkinson
<chil...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>> > > The Sacramento Bee, Monday 16 Nov 1998
>> What sort of comments? I've heard about research into such weapons about 15
>> years ago while I was still in the USSR. It was one of those exposes about the
>> horrible things the imperialists are planning. (Everybody assumed that our own
>> courageous red scientists were doing the same thing.) To hear about Israel
>> doing this, however, is news to me.
>Really? 15 years ago?? This news item was the first I have ever heard of it.
>Which goes to show that i may have been out of touch in some areas.
>Bob
The fact that a newspaper says this is being done does not
automatically mean that it actually is happening. Remember Tailwind,
boys and girls?
John M. Atkinson
nospam becomes erols to reply
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. . .
it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as
FREEDOM should not be highly rated.
--Thomas Jefferson
MattH...@my-dejanews.com
racially
> specific weapon, but used (again, IIRC) a harmonic (?) vibration to do the
same
> thing.
>
> Comments???
Heinlein's (or perhaps more accurately Campbell's tuned by Heinlein)
ray is pure hokum. The hokum is fun, but it is still utter nonsense. As
hokum, it would have been easier to suspend disbelief if there had been
less than 100% of PanAsians being killed by the ray and more and 0% of
non-Asiatic Americans killed. In real life, differences between human
populations have their frequencies measured by curves.
Matt Hickman
Looking at the PanAsians through Finny's eyes there was nothing to hate;
they were simply more misguided souls whose excesses were deplorable.
Robert A. Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
_Sixth Column_ c 1941