Word: 90th
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Ridenhour asked Captain John Morrison, commanding officer of the 90th Chemical Detachment, whether his unit had used Orange since the suspension, Morrison firmly replied: "None whatsoever. I've used nothing but Blue* defoliant." By contrast, Morrison's enlisted men told Ridenhour that Agent Orange has been sprayed since April on hundreds of acres of farmland in the highlands of Quang Ngai province. As evidence, they pointed to the fact that 145 barrels of the chemical were carried on their unit's books, but only 40 were actually on hand. What happened to the missing barrels...
...90th Chemical Detachment claim that Orange has been sprayed by other units in the Americal Division as well as their own. The stated reason for spraying the crops-which all belong to Montagnard tribesmen -was that the Army suspects the harvest was being given to the Viet Cong. Knowledgeable observers point out that the traditional ethnic hatred between Montagnards and all other Vietnamese makes it unlikely they would voluntarily supply food to either side...
...same kind of understanding of community in New York is helping to stop the destruction of many of the Third World communities in the City. On Eighth Avenue, around 90th St., tennants have been evicted from blocks of three and four-story apartment buildings. The city plans to destroy the buildings to put up high-rise urban renewal projects at twice the rent, breaking up the communities and driving people out of the City...
Apprehensions and Rumors. This year Russians looked forward to Stalin's 90th birthday with none of the fabricated ardor of 1949, but with some apprehension. Dissidents warned that this decennial might be made the occasion for a full-scale rehabilitation of Stalin, and some feared that this would be accompanied by an increase in repression. They pointed to the gradual refurbishing of the dictator's image as a wartime leader, particularly in such military memoirs as Marshal Georgy Zhukov's. They also noted that the growing movement for civil rights and for increased intellectual freedom...