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ARMY SAYS GAS LEAK SEALED ITSELF
A nerve agent gas leak detected six weeks ago at the Blue Grass Army Depot
sealed itself and did not pose a danger to people, the Army said in a news
release yesterday. The rocket containing the agent probably had built up pressure
over decades of storage and let off only "a small puff of vapor," the release
said. No agent escaped from a storage igloo, monitors have shown nothing
out of the ordinary since the initial puff, and a search of rockets didn't
turn up a leaker, the Army said. The depot is a military storage facility
for aging chemical weapons.