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  USE OF DEADLY FORCE AUTHORIZED, warn the promi-
 nently displayed red-and-white signs at the U.S. Army
 arsenal at Pine Bluff, Ark. Situated about 35 miles from
 Little Rock, off a busy state highway, the facility is the
 only producer of toxins for chemical weapons in the U.S.
 Since work resumed in December after a 19-year halt, the
 arsenal has manufactured a chemical called DF, which
 becomes nerve gas when mixed with alcohol. Workers are
 also busy incinerating'some 94,000 lbs. of an obsolete hal-
 lucinogenic agent known as BZ. Yet area residents profess
 to have few fears about the facility. "Nothing bothers peo-
 ple out here," says James Morgan, 46, an insurance agent
 who lives near the site. "I guess it's because they've been
  around the arsenal so long."
 Pine Bluff is the only Army facil-
 ity that makes lethal chemical com-
 pounds, but it is one of eight around
 the country where they are stored.*
 The entire U.S. arsenal consists of
 some 30.000 tons of deadly liquids
 and gases. About two-thirds of that

 
 hoard is kept in drums*, the rest is
 contained in weapons ranging from
 some 3 million artillery rounds to
 nearly 500,000 rockets. Though vir-
 tually all are scheduled to be de-
 stroyed by the mid-1990s. the stock-
 piles have raised safety issues. Con-
 *The other sevens Aberdeen. Md.; Lexington,
 Ky.: Anniston. Ala.. Newport. Ind.: Pueblo,
 Colo.: Tooele. Utah: and Umatilla. Ore.
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 gress learned last April that the Army has discovered more
 than 1,000 leaking chemical weapons since 1981.
 The Nixon Administration halted production in 1969
 after a nerve-gas accident at the Army's Dugway Proving
 Ground in Utah killed more than 6,000 sheep. However,
 fears of an overwhelming Soviet advantage in chemical
 weapons led Congress to vote three years ago to resume
 manufacturing. As a safety measure, all new U.S. chemical
 weapons are made of "binary" compounds that are less
 toxic by themselves and can be stored and shipped sepa-
 rately. Only when the substances are combined, as in a
 fired artillery shell or an exploded bomb, do they become
 deadly.
 Nonetheless, the Democrat-controlled Congress rema i ns
 uneasy over the prospect of rebuilding the U.S. chemical arse-
 nal. While the Reagan Administration views such weapons as
 a deterrent against aggression, law-
 makers earlier this year slashed S 109
 million from a Defense Department
 request for $186 million for chemical
      33! arms. Opponents have gained anoth-
 er powerful ally in the U.S. chemical
 industry. In April, Robert Roland
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 president of the Chemical Manufac-
 turers Association, which represents
 the major U.S. chemical companies,
 testified before Congress for a "strong,
 effective international treaty" to ban
 such weapons. Representatives of
 U.S.. Canadian, Japanese and Euro-
 pean firms are now drafting a set of
 recommendations for facilitating an
 agreement and inspecting chemical-
 industry plants.
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 Gas-f illed 105-mm shells at a Utah Army depot