the deliberate contamination of salad bars at ten local restaurants with Salmonella. A group of prominent followers of Rajneesh (later known as Osho) led by Ma Anand Sheela had hoped to incapacitate the voting population of the city so that their own candidates would win the 1984 Wasco County elections The incident was the first and is still the single largest bioterrorist attack in U.S. history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajneesh_movement
Perhaps salad bars was an 80s thing?
I doubt there are 10 sallad bars in The Dalles today.
That story about burning their widows on the funeral pyre of their husband.
Too much of a pussy to go on in full on nuke war with pakistan and china.