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Show now military reticence lingers. Does such defensive fearridden posture backed by the Defense Department and one half of the total national budget mean nothing to the people of this freedom-founded land? Joyce E. Joseph Hold it! Editor: How many books and briefcases are going to be stolen from the University Book Store before the administration takes measures to insure against this? Last Friday I went into the book store to purchase a notebook. I left my brief case on one of the shelves outside the checkstand as required. I walked over to the table where the notebooks were located. As I was standing there I glanced back to where briefcase was and it wasn't I guy walking down the stairs 1' it. I went after him and '' dropped the briefcase and ran' was lucky, but how many pM. aren't? A possible solution to problem is to install a type booth where a student L deposit his books when he entet and he would receive a number them. When the student left, would present the number i receive his books. The individ, operating this booth wot replace the Campus P0licen, who serves little more than, ornate purpose. It is bad enough that t students have to pay such hi prices for books but it is WJ! when a student has to buys same book twice. Of course program was adopted it a lessen the income of u University and tuition might raised! D. B.Mij Like sheep Editor: During the early investigation of the March 1968 SkuU Valley sheep poisoning, which saw 4500 shetp dead and dying in a onewek period March l4tt, the military was the public agency most withdrawn from active social concern, in fact, effectively confounding the entire investigation in its most critical stages. Within the first week of investigation, meticulous screening by Federal and State veterinarians ruled out both infective agents and known poisonous plant .toxicity; and organophosphate poisoning was strongly suspected. However, it was not until after all the afflicted range over 1000 square miles was strewn with dead and morbid ewes that the Dugway Command revealed to investigators and the public that nerve agents had been tested. Indeed, on March 13, one day prior to the earliest and most alarming report of "Skull Valley disease" (2500 mortalities over the night of March 14), the proving ground had indeed canted out airborn nerve gat tMitt admission March 21. Because investigators had exhausted all available clues before March 21, the USDA veterinarian in charge requested a team of federal experts from the National Communicable Disease Center (NCDC Atlanta, Georgia) for further Investigation-this was also March 21. Even with this panel of closely coordinated federal investigators, it was not until April 4 that Dugway released to the Pesticides Program Toxicology laboratory samples of the classified nerve agent for comparison with the forage contaminant. From that point, then, routine laboratory procedure at the NCDC confirmed the identity of the Army nerve gas to the toxic product. It was not until April 18 that the military publicly reversed its earlier public denials by acknowledging that "evidence points to the Army's involvement in the death of the sheep." Even |