Datelines

...He was obliged to tell Reagan that his ancestors were not at all armigerous, and that the alleged coat of arms (described as "a chevron ermine between three fish azure") belonged to an old Irish family unrelated to him...

...Whenever that kind of money is spent so rapidly, industry stands to profit...

...And it was the scent of money that brought many of America's largest industries to Anniston for what was billed as a "Symposium on Chemical Operations...

...Chamber representatives showed up for every lecture, encouraging the businessmen not only to invest funds in chemical warfare material, but to do so in Anniston...

...Presumably their safety is someone else's worry...

...We substituted man-made chemicals for natural substances...

...But at least one member of the PRI, Guillermo de la Rosa, disappeared after losing a factional fight, and committee members also tell of a twomonth-old baby and a ninety-seven-year-old man who were almost certainly abducted because they were related to people the Brigada Blanca wanted to terrorize...

...They distributed leaflets and an anti-cult tabloid, The Advisor, which detailed the Moonies' investments in fishing fleets, munitions, and food stores, and the church's spreading operations in Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Uruguay, and Paraguay...

...McClellan is home to the Army's "Chemical School...

...Former Jack Anderson associate and Pulitzer Prize winner Clark Mollenhoff will cover the White House...

...He calls failure to fund tradescantia "an incredible example of bureaucracy and politics in action...

...It is sensitive enough to tell scientists the levels and even the classes of pollutants affecting it...

...The woman was dragged for a block before the window was opened...

...But it looks as if tradescantia won't be used in the United States, at least during the Reagan years...

...Maybe it's time to go back to canaries...

...But Karlovsky offered a way out: Although the Reagan family was not noble, he could create a modern Reagan crest, every bit as legitimate under Swiss law as if it had existed for centuries...

...Defense committee members believe that the same security officers are involved, but that they also recruit right-wing civilians...

...So far, attacks have been aimed more or less precisely and sparingly at marginal opposition organizations...

...When Florencio's mother, Irma Chavarria de Coronel, refused to let him in, the others rushed the house and forced their way past the screen door and into the kitchen, where they found Florencio...

...The coat of arms purported to trace Reagan's descent from aristocratic Hibernian forebears...

...The disappearances, torture, and political arrests are manifestations of the deep contradictions within Mexican society, where the ruling party combines revolutionary talk and a free-thinking foreign policy with selective repression at home and growing economic dependence on the transnationals and the colossus to the north...

...But for MacDowell, who introduced the idea of the referendum to the town council, the ordinance is a "political gesture...

...Missing CIUDAD JUAREZ, MEXICO On May 24, 1978, seventeen-year-old Florencio Coronel was finishing dinner at home with his family when three cars pulled up outside...

...For now, it accepts no advertising...

...But Seoul's intelligence chiefs could be casting longing looks at the information-gathering potential of The Washington Times's editorial staff, one-third of which is composed of church members with little or no journalism experience...

...In 1973, the town mobilized against a developer who wanted to build townhouses here, and collected funds from the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Maryland Department of Natural Resources to buy the project out...

...Rather, its purpose is to "send a message to the national leadership that we favor actions to reduce the threat of nuclear warfare...

...It's the best simple monitor developed...

...It is also turning the trickle of funding previously available into a torrent...

...It alerts you...

...Conferees in three-piece suits and natty sports jackets milled around, drinking coffee from paper cups and eating doughnuts...

...Our community enjoys a very close relationship with Fort McClellan and its nearby neighbor, the Anniston Army Depot," the Calhoun County Chamber of Commerce said in a letter to conferees...

...David H. Morrissey (David H. Morrissey is a reporter for The Anniston Star in Alabama...

...The goal was to develop tradescantia as a tool for the Environmental Protection Agency...

...Rather, it says, the missing people are guerrillas who are in hiding, have fled the country, or have been killed in disputes with their organizations...

...Government afterwards...

...Cord Meyer, a retired senior CIA clandestine operations agent, will write a regular column...

...Reflecting the church's developing ties to Latin American dictatorships, the paper's editorial suites have been filled with people long tied to the region...

...The three-day gathering was sponsored by the American Defense Preparedness Association, a private, conservative group that describes its function as "opening communications" between industry and the military...

...DATELINES The Noblest Reagan of Them All SOLOTHURN, SWITZERLAND Although Ronald Reagan often boasted during his Presidential campaign that he was descended from proud but humble Irish stock, new information suggests he may have secretly longed for a more noble lineage...

...Ten men were in them, dressed in civilian clothes...

...Funding in 1982 is at a "maintenance level," about $93,000...

...Moon's Latest Phase WASHINGTON, D.C...

...Theodore S. Gold, the assistant to the Secretary of Defense for chemical matters, drew applause from Anniston's 450-odd guests when he said America would increase its spending for chemical warfare materials from less than $150 million in fiscal 1978 to a projected $705 million in fiscal 1983...

...Ernest Beck (Ernest Beck is a news writer and broadcaster for Swiss Radio International...

...No facility, equipment, supply, or substance for the production, transportation, storage, processing, disposal, or use of nuclear weapons shall be allowed in Garrett Park...

...The dazzling party was as much a tribute to this city's short memory as a safety valve for pent-up conservative resentment toward the liberal Washington Post...

...No one asked how offensive and defensive weapons differ, and the Army didn't volunteer the information...

...But Garrett Park has instead followed the lead of British towns that have refused to tolerate nuclear weapons within their boundaries...

...Old friends gladhanded, traded stories, talked shop...

...Jeremiah O'Leary, a former Washington Star reporter recruited by the Times from his State Department job, and longtime right-wing columnist and gadfly Virginia Prewitt...

...Only five years ago, Pak was hauled up before several Congressional committees to tell about the church's links with the South Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA...

...The man behind the Times " as The Advisor's publicists put it, is Colonel Bo Hee Pak, Moon's right-hand man...

...It was the largest voter turnout in the town's history...

...The Congressional investigations also turned up a wide range of Moonie involvement in American domestic politics...

...a bear rampant sable, armed and langued gules, holding between its fore-paws a mullet argent, on a chief of the second, standing on a ducal coronet of the first a falcon argent, armed and langued of the third wings displayed and inverted...

...The Mexican government generally does not respond to the petitions but, when forced to comment, claims that there are no disappearances...

...For those who accepted the offer, apparently, the price was right...

...The millions of civilians who foolishly failed to stash a gas mask in the pantry with the canned corn, who didn't have access to the Army's special, enclosed, air-filtered shelters displayed at this conference—what of them...

...Its mascot is a porcupine and its motto is, "Don't tread on me...

...Both defense committee members and the Mexican Left as a group seem convinced that an extralegal state apparatus, made up of off-duty security officers and right-wing civilians, is using terrorism to repress dissent...

...The EPA, under budgetary pressure and fearful of political repercussions, has put tradescantia out to pasture...

...We believe our county has much to offer as a location for almost any type of industry...

...Several described their anxiety over the decision in press accounts, saying they had to weigh a weekly paycheck and a reporting platform in the capital against the stigma of the Unification Church...

...The Reagan Administration has reversed a ban imposed by the last three administrations and called for production of new nerve gas...

...About thirty years ago we changed the way we live," says David Rail, director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences...

...At least two recent Presidential directives openly accept the likelihood of such a war and outline plans for reconstructing the U.S...

...Calhoun County is the home of a number of major industries, many of which are participants in this week's Chemical Operations Symposium...

...Government investigations had established that Pak, a former South Korean intelligence officer himself, had regular access to KCIA chiefs in Seoul through the South Korean embassy in Washington...

...There were no apologies...

...Chemical warfare has been America's forgotten arsenal in recent years, but it is making a vengeful comeback...

...The idea, says Rail, grew out of an accident at a Brookhaven Lab greenhouse: "When the wind blew in the right direction out of an adjacent building where chemists worked with carcinogens, polluted air entered the greenhouse intake...

...She reached through the car's window and dug her fingernails into one man's arm...

...But another explanation, heard in discussions over coffee, has the ring of reality to it: Chemical warfare agents would be valuable tools in a "limited war" with the Soviet Union...

...When the canaries keeled over, the miners knew it was time to clear out...

...This would end "more than a decade of neglect" of America's chemical warfare responsibilities, he said...

...De Serres says EPA has "no appreciation of monitoring," primarily because of "ignorance...

...Smith Hempstone, a former senior Washington Star editor and columnist, will run the newsroom under Whelan...

...Tradescantia monitoring is "quite cheap and simple to perform," says EPA biologist Shahbeg Sandhu...

...The hefty profits were nice, but the important thing was doing one's duty...

...But it tells you to investigate to see what's wrong...

...Of late, dissidents within the government-controlled teachers' union have been targeted...

...For many who are not Unification Church members, joining a Moonie-owned newspaper was obviously a hard choice...

...The local Chamber of Commerce made a pitch, too...

...We need about $250,000 a year to do a good job continuing to monitor the air and to do a little research," says Sandhu...

...Many of the military officials and civilian military experts at the symposium realized chemical weapons might be put to use by an enemy fearful of unleashing the total destructive capability of its nuclear arsenal...

...From 1972 to 1978 the abductors .hifted to the cities where the Twenty-third of September Communist League, an urban guerrilla organization, was visible...

...Sharon Butler (Sharon Butler is a free-lance writer in Silver Spring, Maryland...

...At Brookhaven the late biologist Arnold Sparrow developed a dwarf tradescantia that flowers continuously...

...The tradescantia within did its thing, and startled researchers made the right connection...

...The citizens had assembled to discuss nuclear war and arms com trol, and the pine benches of the converted church were filled to capacity...

...The placid community of old Victorian homes has streets out of Walter Scott novels and white picket fences out of Tom Sawyer...

...William Steif (William Steif is a retired correspondent for the Scripps-Howard Newspapers...

...No nuclear weapon shall be produced, transported, stored, processed, disposed of, nor used within Garrett Park," the new ordinance states...

...Ernest Lefever, President Reagan's unsuccessful nominee for Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights...

...Reagan, it seems, has hankered after a coat of arms for years, and when he was governor of California he got one from an "Armorial Institute"—something Karlovsky describes as a "heraldic mill" preying on the vanity of ordinary Smiths and Browns...

...No one would say...

...Through demonstrations, forums, leaflets, wall posters, petitions, and hunger strikes, the committees demand some word from the Mexican government about the more than 500 political dissidents who have vanished since 1970...

...All this considered, it seems unlikely that anyone would care to bring nuclear weapons to Garrett Park...

...For most of these chaps, talking shop meant discussing violent death—and estimating the money that could be made by selling bugs and poison gases to the Army...

...Or, in other words, a bear, the state seal and flag of California, a five-pointed star representing the state, a horse, and an actor's mask...

...They were compared to a clean-air standard set at the Grand Canyon...

...This idea of a limited war has received a good deal of attention since Ronald Reagan became commander-in-chief...

...Two took up positions with submachine guns as another knocked on the door, saying he had come to repair a light...

...It doesn't tell you how many people will get cancer or have heart attacks...

...However, Amnesty International sent an investigative mission to Mexico in January 1980, and it maintains that disappearances, political prisoners, torture, paramilitary squads, and secret jails do exist...

...the Defense Department says it wants to spend between $6 billion and $7 billion over the next five years for equipment, research, and development...

...Not once was there a mention of death, although there were a few oblique references to casualties...

...Only about 20 per cent of those chemicals have ever been tested for toxicity...

...And, residents say, they hope it will not be the last...

...It could be used all over"—and, indeed, there's already a lot of interest in Japan, Western Europe, India...

...and former National Security Council chief Richard Allen...

...Inside, more than 2,000 lobbyists, lawyers, journalists, and conservative political figures swarmed around tables glistening with iced lobster tails and pan-tossed strawberry crepes, while a dozen or more bartenders poured champagne...

...It has presented the Mexican government with a list of disappeared persons and increased the pressure on their behalf...

...That means monitoring before illness sets in...

...The Mexican government denies that it has been connected to either group, but defense committee members and Amnesty International say surfacing desaperecidos and letters smuggled out of the system describe a clandestine network of government prisons, from basements in seemingly innocent private houses to a large lockup tucked away in Mexico City's Military Camp Number One...

...By then, her arm was covered with pieces of flesh and the blood of the kidnapper from Mexico's Brigada Blanca (White Brigade...

...No one offered any second thoughts...

...James W. Russell (James W. Russell, a sociologist, is the author of'"' Marx-Engels Dictionary...

...Intrigued, the Reagans provided a tape-recorded interview describing their families, interests, and hobbies, from which Karlovsky proceeded to create several designs...

...Secretary of the Army John O. Marsh was on hand to remind conferees that no one likes chemical warfare...

...The paper's conservative tilt, moreover, could prove a vehicle for pro-Pentagon, pro-CIA, and, by extension, pro-South Korean military propaganda...

...Nor did anyone ask what more than $6 billion diverted to peaceful and productive pursuits might do for the sagging economy...

...But while the gathering may officially have been a private business meeting, it got a strong unofficial endorsement from the Government...

...It was tested in a mobile lab in some of the nation's grimiest, smoggi-est factory towns...

...Specialists lectured on new product lines amid displays of tools and machinery...

...Leading these is editor and publisher James R. Whe-lan, who in 1961 headed a secret United Press team organized, with U.S...

...It was a celebration for the debut on May 17 of the capital's new daily newspaper, The Washington Times, published by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church—the Moonies...

...Is The Washington Post fair, for God's sake...

...They all swear they're going to try very hard to be fair," Hayakawa said...

...This hybrid spiderwort herb changes color in polluted air...

...At the town meeting, asked whether the call for a nuclear-free zone was not rather radical, a plump grandmother with gray hair replied, "Oh no...

...Florencio's mother, an imposing woman in her early fifties, is one of the leaders of a local defense committee for political prisoners...

...Dana Adams Schmidt, formerly of The New York Times, will be at the State Department...

...Jeff Stein (Jeff Stein is a contributing editor of The Progressive...

...Keeping the Canary Caged RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NORTH CAROLINA In Nineteenth Century coal mines, caged canaries monitored gas levels...

...With that kind of open-door policy, with almost unlimited funding, and with the support of some of America's largest industries, chemical warfare will clearly be one of the biggest growth industries of the 1980s...

...With this in mind, NIEHS and Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York worked jointly between 1974 and 1980 to develop a reliable, inexpensive sentinel, a plant known as tradescantia...

...Across the country, many jurisdictions have voted to back an international weapons freeze...

...The only thing that made this gathering different from any business conference was its subject: chemical and biological warfare...

...De Serres says it cost $2.5 million to develop tradescantia...

...After an exchange of letters, the Reagans agreed on the following...

...And underneath, the motto: "Facta Non Verba," or "Deeds, Not Words...

...right-wing operative Howard Phillips...

...Appropriately, the White House has no comment...

...One answer is that the Soviets do train for chemical warfare and may have waged it, or allowed their proxies to, in Southeast Asia and Afghanistan...

...She has not seen her son since...

...The evidence is locked away in the archives of the canton of Solothurn, in the northeast corner of Switzerland...

...A Separate Peace_ GARRETT PARK, MARYLAND Last spring, at Garrett Park's town hall meeting, the vice president of the citizens' association held up a wooden ostrich, its head buried in sand...

...Why did Uniroyal, Boeing Aerospace, General Dynamics, Colt Industries, General Atomic Company, Food Machinery Company (FMC), Reynolds Metal, Gillette, the Battelle Memorial Institute, the Central Intelligence Agency, and several hundred other businesses and organizations send their people to Anniston...

...The name of the game today is prevention," says Frederick De Serres, the Institute's associate director for genetics...

...all that mattered, it seemed, was getting a chance to fight The Post...

...Experts on the Unification Church are divided on whether it is still close to South Korea's intelligence establishment, which has undergone a severe shakeup since the 1979 assassination of President Park Chung Hee...

...Defense committee members say the disappearances began about 1970 with the kidnapping of peasants in such areas as the siite of Guerrero, where guerrillas had beta active...

...New Life for the 'Forgotten Arsenal' ANNISTON, ALABAMA It was, in many ways, just one more trade fair...

...An EPA spokesman concedes "there's a possibility" the tradescantia program will be scrubbed entirely...

...This room is throbbing with hostility toward The Post," said a reporter from the paper's trendy Style section...

...Not so for Garrett Park, a town of about 1,200 residents fourteen miles northwest of the White House...

...Why has chemical warfare (and its first cousin, biological warfare) come back into vogue...

...The ostrich, Eugene MacDowell said, symbolized the nation's attitude toward growing nuclear weapons stockpiles and the consequent threat of nuclear war: "We just don't want to face it...

...Garrett Park has never been timid politically...

...She had just spent an hour fielding insults as she interviewed conservative celebrities in the crowd...

...Its new ordinance is the first of its kind in this country...

...It came to be there through one Captain Adolf Karlovsky, associate member of the International Academy of Heraldry, who designed a coat of arms for the Reagans in 1970...

...taxes, the paper got a surprisingly warm welcome...

...It was held in Anniston, for instance, because Fort McClellan is here...

...After all, the town is a tiny 123-acre enclave tucked behind sprawling condominium developments and shopping malls...

...Army experts lectured conference participants on "state of the art" chemical and biological warfare techniques, used Army facilities to house the gathering, and even staged mock chemical warfare attacks (complete with firebombs, explosions, and smoke clouds...

...Among the guests were Terry Do-Ian, who runs the National Conservative Political Action Committee...

...He rolled up the window, trapping her arm, and then the driver gunned the car...

...The land is now a park called Porcupine Woods...

...With the push of a button, a periscope emerged, scanned the horizon, and then retreated...

...Chemical weapons, after all, do not blow down most buildings and leave no radioactive fallout...

...In the Twentieth Century, especially since World War II, scientists have become increasingly aware of the need to monitor above-ground hazards caused by the junk industry pumps into the air, water, and soil...

...But as conferees were told, research for "defensive" chemical and biological measures is permissible...

...Recently a new outfit, the National Patriotic Anti-Communist Front, seems to be taking over the Brigada Blanca's dirty work...

...Government blessing, to cover the Bay of Pigs invasion...

...They used to call us Communists, but not any more...

...Then, in the May 3 local elections, the people voted 245 to 46 to make Garrett Park a nuclear-free zone...

...In Switzerland, Karlovsky—a Czech refugee who came here in 1968 after studying history at Prague's Charles University— discovered that the American company had, indeed, produced a fake...

...If any of those present worried about the new paper's Moonie connection, it didn't show...

...Thinking of it as a solution is asking too much of it," he says...

...Oddly enough, the Times has also landed some major bylines...

...The vast majority of the disappeared have been from organizations openly struggling against the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI...

...Such committees, organized all over Mexico and coordinated by a national committee, are made up of the relatives of those who are called, in that haunting Latin American expression, des-aparecidos—the disappeared...

...The young man shouted to his mother that he had done nothing as they dragged him to one of the cars...

...But the governor wondered why he had never heard this about his roots, and the matter was referred to Karlovsky...

...There was no attempt to explain what hapless civilians on the sidelines would do if clouds of poison wafted their way during a chemical attack...

...The United States has also renounced the use, at any time, of biological weapons...

...Unlike the Brigada Blanca, the new paramilitary squad boldy paints "Death to Communists" slogans on walls in its own name...

...former CIA officer Cleto Di Giovanni, who is a close associate of North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms...

...California Senator Sam Hayakawa...

...Not only will the Administration's fiscal 1983 budget call for fat increases...

...The paper's executives say they will spend more than $20 million a year to make it a success...

...At first glance, that might seem to limit industry's options...

...Other Latin Americanists writing at the Times include Edward L. King, a retired CIA officer who spent most of his career dealing with the Organization of American States...

...Outside the Corcoran were the protesters, many of them former Moonies and their parents...

...But since the Russians might resort to it "as part of a surprise and massive attack," he said, the United States must be ready to respond in kind...

...Launched at the very moment a New York jury found the church's South Korean spiritual leader guilty of evading $150,000 in personal U.S...

...But the scope could broaden if current independent attempts to organize peasants, workers, and squatter communities win much popular support...

...Hans Wegner, also a vice president of the citizens' association, says people laugh when he tells them what Garrett Park is doing...

...If anything, those on hand agreed they were doing the country a favor by beefing up its chemical warfare capability...

...They came in tuxedos or plunging black necklines, emptying from limousines into a crowd of protesters, scrambling up the steps into the grand foyer of the Corcoran Gallery of Art...

...Officially, the United States has a no-first-use chemical warfare policy, meaning we won't unless someone else does first...

...To fend off the racism that has been plaguing the surrounding county, one candidate for the town council suggested hanging a sign at the city limits saying, "Abandon hate all ye who enter here...