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Show KUED Documentary Looks at Nerve Gas The second program in KUED. Channel ..documentary ..docu-mentary series. Headline, will air July 14 at 9pm.; . Focusing on the controvers-j ial topic, chemical ' warfare, i The Deadly Winds of War, represents the first time such an intensive treatment of the subject has been presented on television. "With three of the nation's na-tion's largest military install- ations dealing with chemical' . agents located in trie Inter- mountain West-the Rocky Mountain Arsenal in Denver, the Dugway Proving Grounds and the Tooele Army Depot-this . program should have more than usual interest in our area," says Bruce L. Christensen, General Gen-eral Manager of KUED. Chemical agents used in warfare include odorless and colorless liquids called nerve agents that disperse and become toxic gases; incapacitating incapa-citating agents such as the well-known tear gases and psycho-chemicals; and fire-makers fire-makers like napalm and white phosphorus. Nerve agents are the most deadly. They can kill in less than a minute. Thirty gallons of nerve -agent. could exterminate exter-minate 100 million people. In spite of moral outcries and chilling statistics, chemical chem-ical warfare has persisted throughout the ages. The Deadly Winds of War traces its history from Byzantine time to the present. The Middle Ages. World War I and II. the disarmament conferences which have guided its destiny and the recent controversy involving Weteye Bombs, are all part of the landscape. During the Weteye crisis, Utah Governor Scott M. Matheson . in opposing the transfer of Weteyes from Colorado to Utah, declared, ' I decided that you have to think of the health and safetv of your own people before you decide to kijl your enemy'. ., .. . Other spokespebple size 7 up chemical warfare's social ' impact ; arid: its defense implications, in the program. ' They : include Amoretta M.? Hoeber Defense1 Consultant: Representative Pat Schroed- er. Congresswoman from; Colorado:' t)r: William J. Perrv, Undersecretary of Defense: Col. Charles A. Bay. Commander. Dugway Proving Grounds: Col.; Jerry K. Patterson, Commander, Tooele Army Depot; i Col. ; Man ley u. rair. Retired; and Dr. Robert Rutman, Profes- sor of Biochemistry, University Univer-sity of Pennsylvania;" : 5 three victims of chemical -agents are also interviewed with revealing results: Ralph Burchfield and Ray Laugh-ridge, Laugh-ridge, former Rocky Mountain Mount-ain Arsenal employees: and , Ron Mutchko, Demolitions Specialist, Dugway Proving Grounds. Certain realities surface during the program. It is a ( matter of record that binary ; weapons-alternatives to. the Weteye Bombs have hot been funded Chemical war-vv fare disarmament negotia-t negotia-t i on s re m a in stal e m ated,' Defense capabilities are still -in question. ; . . ; ,-. The documentary concludes con-cludes that the deadly winds of war will blow, again. . Producer for.the.hour-long program is Michell Kendall; director, Robert -C. Smith; writers are Bruce Fox and Lin Mrachek; narrator. Phi Rieson; cinematographer, Paul Cheesman. The first program in the Headline series. Earthquake was recently picked up by the Public Broadcasting Service Ser-vice and will soon be broadcast nationwide. The Deadly Winds of War is a production of KUED, Channel 7, Salt Lake City. |