FALL-OUT SUITS
Stitches During Time
(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, August 24. Young offenders at three of Britain’s prisons are spending all their working hours stitching—not mailbags but nuclear fall-out suits.
Last night a member of Parliament, Mr Eddie Griffiths, said: “I cannot think of anything more soul-de-stroying for a young man in prison, than preparing to meet the end.” A Ministry of Defence spokesman said of the suits, “we don’t call them fall-out suits. They are C.B. (chemical and biological) suits.” He said the suits were to protect the armed forces in the event of war, against chemical and biological warfare agents and nuclear fall-out.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32385, 26 August 1970, Page 15
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