BC-CALMATIVE-DRUGS-SCIAM-ART-NYTSF _ The news from Russia last November was frightening : Russian troops used a gas to subdue Chechen rebels in an attempt to rescue the 700 hostages they were holding in a Moscow theater.
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The debate over nonlethal agents leaped dramatically into the headlines last October when Russian special forces put Moscow's research on display, using a chemical " calmative, " apparently an opiate, to end a hostage crisis at a theater.
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Taylor initially comes off as kindly and a little distracted _ a slow-motion charmer who tosses off gentle anecdotes between hissing plumes of smoke from a cigarette . ( And the cigarette becomes a motif _ the nicotine is the calmative that links almost everyone .)
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"With all these technologies starting to surface in security and the military, maybe there is a real need to revisit these international conventions to reassess if they are still applicable, " said Andrew Mazzara, director of the Penn State institute that prepared the calmative report.
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Especially worthwhile would be the development of " calmative " gases that can calm large groups, or " malodorant " _ foul smelling _ gases that can repel them, says the report, titled " An Assessment of Nonlethal Weapons Science and Technology ."
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Peggy Brevoort, president of East Earth Herb Inc ., a company in Eugene, Ore ., that produces botanicals, said the demand for St . John's wort, used for mild depression, and kava, a calmative said to reduce anxiety, now exceeds their supply, introducing the " danger of adulteration " by " unscrupulous dealers ."
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