The World - News from Dec. 14, 1988

Israel’s army has devised ways of counterattacking while under fire from chemical weapons, a military commander said. Brig. Gen. Natanel Golan told reporters at a hitherto-secret chemical warfare center in the Negev desert that massive investment has been made to enable Israeli troops to move forward under attack by combat chemical agents. “Something clicked in our minds during the Iran-Iraq War so we instituted training and purchased equipment allowing us to close the distance in combat and reach enemies unprepared to use chemical agents in their own lines,” said Golan, deputy commander of Israel’s Group Forces Command.