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...four times more often than in other parts of the country, according to a leading Vietnamese researcher. The prime suspect is Agent Orange, the chemical defoliant sprayed for nine years by U.S. warplanes over southern Vietnam. Nicknamed for the orange stripes on its storage barrels, Agent Orange contains dioxin, now linked to cancer and a host of other ailments, including birth defects. "The doctors told me my daughter's condition is because of this chemical," Ngoc says. "I feel so sad when I look at her. What future can she have...
...disturbing new number to be unveiled in Hanoi: Bien Hoa residents have up to 200 times the normal rate of dioxin in their blood, even among those born years after the spraying stopped. Dr. Arnold Schechter of the University of Texas estimates that southern Vietnam has up to 30 dioxin "hot spots" like Bien Hoa, the site of a major U.S. air base where some 7,000 gallons of Agent Orange may have been spread and spilled. Vietnamese officials say Schechter's study adds to the proof that the U.S. caused a massive environmental disaster and owes compensation to victims...
...offered nothing. Yet the U.S. Veterans Administration gives more than $1,000 per month to former American soldiers exposed to dioxin. "It's so arrogant," complains Chuck Searcy, a humanitarian aid worker who served in Saigon in 1967 and 1968 as a U.S. Army intelligence specialist. "Why not use the same standard to offer assistance to the Vietnamese?" U.S. veterans sued for compensation; Nhan, the Red Cross president, says a group of Vietnamese are preparing to take legal steps of their own by filing a class action lawsuit against the U.S. government...
VIETNAM Agent Orange Plea The head of Vietnam's Red Cross said it was time to end the silence over Agent Orange - the chemical containing dioxin used during the Vietnam War - and start helping its victims. Nguyen Trong Nhan told a scientific conference in Hanoi that immediate steps should be taken to help those affected, rather than waiting for more research. The U.S. questions Vietnamese findings still linking the chemical with birth defects some 30 years after the spraying stopped...
...There are several levels of our complaint," MacCleery says. "[Graham] does not hold degrees in any hard sciences yet he refers to himself repeatedly in stories as a scientist. It's fair to say that if you're evaluating the health effects of dioxin, you should know something about biology...