Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nearly 100,000 vets came back with severe physical disabilities: fast evacuation by helicopter and excellent medical care saved thousands of men?many without arms and legs?who might otherwise have died. Another 50,000 fear that they may have got cancer from the blitzing American herbicide Agent Orange...
...exercises have been a bit forlorn. Last March, an ex-Marine named James Hopkins crashed his Jeep into the lobby of a West Los Angeles Veterans Hospital and blasted away at the walls with a pistol and rifle, screaming that he was losing his mind because of Agent Orange. Two months later, he was found dead with a jug of whisky and an empty pill bottle beside him. A former artillery sergeant, Steve Androff, 33, went on last week with a fast he began on May 27 in Lafayette Square, across the street from the White House...
...House unanimously approved (388 to 0) a bill that would extend the counseling program for three years. In the same package, the House decided that Viet Nam veterans could qualify for treatment at VA hospitals if doctors determined that certain physical problems "may be associated with exposure" to Agent Orange or other chemicals. The House has also passed a program that would make qualified Viet Nam-era vets eligible for low-cost $200,000 Small Business Administration loans. Both the House and Senate agreed to extend for two years eligibility for the G.I. Bill's vocational...
...served as an infantryman in Korea for 14 months, was also able to bring a soldier's point of view to his conversations with the head of Viet Nam Veterans of America. In Washington, D.C., Correspondent David Jackson spent time with debilitated victims of the toxic herbicide Agent Orange and reported on their disheartening battle with the federal bureaucracy. Says Jackson: "I understood the hurdles that veterans face when their fears, and sometimes even their symptoms, aren't enough to get them satisfactory answers." The story brought some TIME reporters face to face with the generational ironies...
...wind of Bell's intrigues about a year ago and obtained his confession and cooperation in the investigation shortly before his arrest. Bell's motive, said Agent John Hoos, was "definitely monetary." Despite a $50,000 salary, Bell said he had been having "financial problems" when he first met his neighbor about three years ago. Zacharski offered to help him out. Equipped by his new friend with a movie camera capable of taking single-frame exposures, the Hughes engineer began photographing unclassified company documents in exchange for cash and gold coins...