Word: champlin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...underwater exploration for oil or gas is still more of an art than a science. Only one-third of all wells dug in the gulf are now producing; Exxon, Mobil, Champlin and others have spent more than $1.5 billion exploring off Pensacola, Fla., without discovering anything except salt water. Worse, federal investigators suspect that gulf producers in recent years have been purposely holding back production in hopes that federal price controls will be removed and the gas will eventually sell for $2 or more per 1,000 cu. ft., rather than the present top interstate price...
Hence most of the refugees simply sit and wait. For many, the sense of uncertainty will not end even with release from the camps and settlement in an American community. Says John Champlin, a Napa Valley, Calif., psychiatrist who is married to a Vietnamese: "Inevitably, everyone will have some sort of emotional crisis, probably within six months to a year. And within ten years, at least half will have tried to go back...
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...foreigners-Americans, Canadians and British-who staffed it. The country's chaotic transportation system also prevented many prospective patients from coming to the center; to reach them, CMR1 set up ten screening clinics in the provinces. The procedure of picking patients is a delicate one. Says Dr. John Champlin, 32, CMRl's former screening officer: "It's quite difficult to explain why you can help someone who's missing half his face from noma, but can't help someone who's paralyzed by polio. The medical distinction just isn't that clear...
Beginning of Debate. There is also the question of how many may have suffered genetic damage from the herbicides used in defoliation. A cause-and-effect relationship has not been proved. But, says Champlin, "I do not know a doctor in this country who doesn't think there is a higher incidence of birth defects in this generation than the last and who doesn't attribute it to the use of herbicides...