Yellow rain: Contradictory accounts gathered in Laos

Trichothecenes: from Yellow Rain to Green Wheat

M ore than 20 years ago, trichothecene mycotoxins made their controversial debut on the world stage. Alexander Haig, who was U.S. Secretary of State and visiting the western sector of then-divided Berlin, alleged in 1981 that trichothecenes had been used as biological warfare agents in Southeast Asia. He cited statements from villagers in the region, who claimed that they became ill after “yell...

The “Yellow Rain” Controversy: Lessons for Arms Control Compliance

During a speech to the Berlin Press Association on September 13, 1981, U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig made a dramatic allegation. He accused the Soviet Union of supplying mycotoxins— poisonous compounds synthesized by fungi—to its Vietnamese and Laotian Communist allies for military use against resistance forces in Laos and Cambodia (Kampuchea), and of employing the same agents in comba...

Canadian "yellow rain" research: does it weaken the case?

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Contradictory purposes in prisons.

On Being Contradictory

This paper discusses recognizing and producing contradictions. After illustrating the phenomena of contradiction, the paper presents conceptual classes of contradiction and gives an overview of the how they can be recognized. The next part discusses the construction of contradictions, in particular with respect to contradicting historic events. The object of this paper is to examine the computa...