Word: hmong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Asian boat people were abducted and raped by marauding pirates; they still suffer shame and a haunting sense that they have somehow betrayed their families. Worse yet, once in the U.S., their men, who may have trouble finding work, sometimes turn on them. Says Gaoly Yang, who helped battered Hmong women from Laos who now live in St. Paul form a support group: "If you don't produce income, it seems like you're losing control of your family. The men sometimes felt the women had too much freedom. In the group we say to the women, 'Don't overdo...
Meselson: I must disagree with that, because it is the Hmong who handed in the samples and said "this is what comes from the airplanes." Some of these absolutely do not come from planes. They are bee feces. So when someone presents you with a yellow material and says "this came out of an airplane or out of a weapon,"--bee feces don't come out of airplanes or weapons--and you know that he's wrong about that, that should tell you that everything else he has said needs to be reevaluated...
Meselson: I disagree. The people I know who have conducted extensive interviews in the Hmong camp have told me that they're really not sure whether there is any chemical warfare--that they're impressed by the stories--but that there are also inconsistencies. I don't think it is right to say that everybody who has talked to the Hmong believe in the existence of yellow rain...
Schwartzstein: Oh I didn't say everyone, but there's a feeling that the Hmong are accurately reporting their observations...
Crimson: Would you then say that the Hmong have been put up to this...