The World - News from May 24, 1989
French doctors working with American and Soviet colleagues in Soviet Georgia confirmed that some demonstrators who died in a clash with police last month were killed by toxic gases. On the basis of 16 autopsy results, doctors identified Chloropicrine as responsible for some deaths, according to Medecins sans Frontiers, a Paris-based medical humanitarian group. Chloropicrine was approved in the Soviet Union as a tear gas until 1981, when it was reclassified as an asphyxiating gas for combat use. Clashes between police and Georgian nationalists in Tbilisi left 19 people dead.
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