Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trial, and when it does begin it could drag on for years. But the companies already have asked permission to sue the Government to recover any money that the court may eventually make them pay to the veterans. The companies claim that the Government mandated the manufacturing specifications for Agent Orange and then misused them. The veterans cannot sue the Government; a 1950 Supreme Court decision bars suits by servicemen who have been injured on duty because of negligence by military personnel...
...servicemen's plight. The veterans are especially bitter because they cannot get disability payments or free treatment from the Veterans Administration for the illnesses that they believe were caused by dioxin. Says Albrigtsen: "When you go in to a VA hospital and say you are an Agent Orange victim, they look at you as if you were nuts...
...position is that the veterans cannot prove that their maladies and those of their children were caused by use of Agent Orange in Viet Nam. Bills recently introduced in Congress by Democratic Representative David Bonior of Michigan and Republican Senator John Heinz III of Pennsylvania would grant free treatment for any veteran who could establish that he had served in specified areas of Viet Nam where Agent Orange was sprayed. But Democratic Representative Thomas Downey of New York warned veterans attending the Long Island meeting that the bill will pass only if they apply heavy political pressure. Said Downey...
Then last week eight-year-old Brian Ingram dug a dozen packets of weathered $20 bills from a bank of the Columbia River near Vancouver, Wash. The FBI determined from the serial numbers that the $4,000 was part of Cooper's loot. Using picks and shovels, agents unearthed fragments of several more bills, some buried 3 ft. deep. FBI officials speculate that the money and Cooper landed somewhere upstream and that floods washed the bills to their final resting place. Said FBI Agent Ralph Himmelsbach, who has been investigating the hijacking for more than eight years: "The money...
Dodging a Hungarian double agent and a two-dimensional Soviet intelligence chief, pausing briefly to satisfy a lascivious lady, Oakes not only carries off the kidnaping, but wins the friendship of both the scientist and his wife. What he fails to do is prevent the Soviet space spectacular. He does, however, have a hell of a time trying...