The Nation - News from Aug. 22, 1985
A Montana State University worker who inhaled fumes from a poisonous gas and four persons who tried to help him were hospitalized briefly after some of the substance escaped a school research station near Norris, Mont. Paul D. Griffin was trying to dispose of the phosgene, used in World War I, by shooting its metal container and allowing the liquid to evaporate, an acceptable method of disposal.
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