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The Soviet proposals put at Stockholm last week have been too quickly dismissed in the West as an old recipe for arms control. That they may be, but why not talk about them?
Yellow rain, purported to be an agent of toxin warfare in South-East Asia, contains a high percentage of pollen. Analysis of this pollen in yellow rain samples suggests that they are the faeces of honey bees.
The discovery that some of the yellow rain falling from the sky in South-East Asia is the excrement of bees, first dismissed as impropriety, must now be taken seriously.
