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NZPA-Reuter Bangkok A rocket which Laotian resistance fighters alleged had a poison gas warhead was found to be a normal Soviet-made 840 rocket, probably more than 10 years old, informed Western sources said in Bangkok yesterday. . j ■ The. rocket was examined bv two Australian Defence
Sydney television team last week paid resistance leaders juSIO.OOO for the rocket, the sources said. The team bought the rocket in the belief that it • could prove Soviet involvement in chemical warfare in Indo-China, the sources said. The rocket turned out to be only one of the standard weapons used by Communist forces during the Vietnam u'or fhpu said
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