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a ibid sone oie ee tet bank ae ce ene cae eB ee —_—— " This year, however, Fink said the conferees were told that “in a time of aus- terity it was not practical to have the outdoor dem- - onstrations,” so instead they watched films of ‘weapons tests conducted at Eglin and other instaila- tiers. Fink recorded the film —s According to Fink, the list of civilian conferees “read like a list of every major defense contractor in the country.” He said sev- eral New England corpora- tions were represented, adding: “I had a chat with aman from Mitre Corp. in Bedford Mass., which cons tracted for the system de- Rarration, which featured_ Sign of the ‘Igloo White’ descriptions of antiperson-. #utomated battlefield.” weapons he described as “effective only against living things, not weapons wystems," although the film narrator was said to have lauded the same ‘weapons as “doing a damn__ --= good job-on a- lot off ss Fink’s $7 membership fee covered the cost of a year’s subscription to dnance magazine, a publi- cation replete with techni- eal articles and glossy ad- yertisements from defense __ H trucks.” * Sontractors. ~ i At one point, when the “Good reading,” he said, Fl films showed the dropping leafing through a copy, } of white phosphorous “but kind of troubling. All 4 shells, the narrator com- the references I’ve seen to an mented: “This yuff is real- Southeast Asia describe it ? Uy spectacular.” as ‘a laboratory.’ } ——— ——— i. - ce ee weet eee | i Ce eee eee q 4 . Stitt ad wrest ay eee -4 -