WORLD : Envoy to Escort Chemical Arms
U.S. Ambassador Vernon Walters will ride on a train loaded with chemical weapons to reassure the public that the removal through densely populated areas poses no danger, the U.S. Embassy said today.
Walters, a former army general, will board the train Friday night from Miesau in the southwest to the North Sea port of Nordenham, where the poison gas shells will be loaded on ships and taken to the Pacific for destruction.
Fire brigades and about 10,000 police officers were on full alert as the first trains rumbled through the night Wednesday and arrived safely in Nordenham today.
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