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Feb 3 2005 10:46AM Putin sends condolences on Georgian PM's death MOSCOW. Feb 3 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent a telegram to Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili offering condolences over the death of Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania, the Kremlin press service said. "I would like to offer my deep condolences on the sudden, tragic death of this prominent state and political figure, Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania," reads the telegram. "Zurab Vissarionovich [Zhvania] was well known in Russia as a champion of the development of friendly and good-neighborly relations between the Russian and Georgian peoples," the message said.

Toxic Tugs - Public Poisons by J.B. Stone - 04/17/02 What do Maryland, Utah, Alaska, Hawaii, Johnston Atoll, and the Marshall Islands have in common? BioChemical warfare tests were conducted in all of them behind a blinding haze of Cold War secrecy. And hardly a word of warning was ever issued, before during, or afterward the test conductors, subjects, or citizens living in surrounding areas. Marine jets and Army artillery sprayed "harmless simulants" and live biological and chemical agents on unsuspecting citizens for 15 years on land and sea during Operation Deseret. The randomly selected human test rats onboard ships...