Word: agent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vietnam served as the first laboratory for testing the United States's latest form of chemical warfare, a dioxin-based herbicide known as Agent Orange. It ranks with napalm as one of the most gruesome destroyers of the Vietnamese land and people. The U.S. Army sprayed Agent Orange from 1962 to 1971 to destroy the protective cover of National Liberation Front bases, and to destroy the crops that were its food supply...
...strategy, however, exceeded even the Army planners' cool calculations. Agent Orange not only blighted forests and crops, it also insured that nothing will grow in those areas for generations to come. After the spraying ceased, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) conducted an investigation of the environmental and human costs of Agent Orange. NAS found that the Army sprayed more than 10 per cent of the inland forests, 36 per cent of the mangrove forests, and 3 per cent of cultivated land with Agent Orange. The Academy estimates that 11. 25 million gallons of Agent Orange drifted over Vietnam...
Beyond the unquestioned environmental damage lies the less easily proved, but more horrifying, damage to the people of Vietnam. Although long-term scientific studies of Agent Orange's effect on Vietnam's population are still underway, Vietnamese doctors have reported significant increases in liver tumors, miscarriages and deformed children--especially those born with cleft palates, a birth defect observed with lab animals. Professor Ton That Tung, director of the Viet Duc hospital in Hanoi, published papers documenting a high incidence of chromosome damage among people in sprayed areas...
...heart was in Rome, wandering its ruins. In 1745 he managed to get back there for good as agent for a Venetian printmaker. He married the daughter of Prince Corsini's gardener, who brought him a small dowry that proved enough to let him start his major work on Roman antiquities. In it he looked on Rome's neglected ruins with the eye of a romantic and the knowledge of an engineer...
...Justice Department has periodically examined the intertwined business interests of pro tennis for antitrust violations. Often the same men have painted both sides of the tennis fence. Promoters fumed at the power of Lawyer Donald Dell, who served both as agent for a number of top players and as legal adviser for the Association of Tennis Professionals. Tournament directors, such as Jack Kramer, doubled as circuit organizers. The Federal Communications Commission and a House committee have looked into CBS's bogus $250,000 "winner-take-all" match between Connors and Ilie Nastase (in which Connors actually was guaranteed...