Word: agent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this case, however, the Vietnamese were not the only guinea pigs in the army's chemical warfare experiments. Agent Orange has affected the Vietnam veterans who sprayed or were stationed near sprayed areas. They have since suffered many of the same symptoms as the Vietnamese. Veterans describe eating in sprayed areas, and climbing through jungles dripping with the herbicide. Their children have the same birth defects as the Vietnamese children and the veterans themselves complained of recurring dizziness and nausea, weight loss and skin disease--other common symptoms of dioxin poisoning...
...increasing, the Army and the Veterans' Administration (VA refuse to accept responsibility for the health problems of the veterans and their children. The V.A., which has received over 500 dioxin inquiries, still maintains that no one has proved cancer originated in Vietnam or that a male veteran exposed to Agent Orange could transfer genetic abnormalities to his child...
...receptive audience in Congress and the press. Several news articles and television documentaries have alerted other vets and some Congressmen. The heat is on the V.A. This April, the House Committee on Veterans Affairs viewed a television documentary produced in Chicago, where local veterans are particularly well-informed about Agent Orange. Fourteen Congressmen were sufficiently shocked to demand a report from the V.A. and the General Accounting Office. The Committee tentatively plans to hold hearings on Agent Orange this fall, but the V.A. still refuses even to hear the complaints of affected veterans...
...somber roster of people suffering the effects of Agent Orange has not deterred the U.S. Department of Agriculture from using a weakened form of Agent Orange, 2,4,5-T, to spray forests, rangelands and pastures in the United States. The Pacific Northwest bears the brunt of the spraying, but Wisconsin, Minnesota, West Virginia and other heavily forested states endure the dousings as well...
Former All-Ivy receiver Jim Curry was in town recently to drop off his sister Caryn at Quincy House. The third-leading Harvard pass snatcher of all time was signed as a free agent by the New York Giants, but 'The Turk' got the better of him. Curry started off like gangbusters in a scrimmage with the Jets, but then saw 11 minutes of action against the Steelers and five ticks against the Browns...