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...Matthew Meselson, Professor of Biology, was appointed by the AAAS to head the study in December 1969. By mid-summer, the commission had completed preliminary activities and begun an investigatory tour of South Vietnam...
...With Meselson on the trip to Vietnam were Arthur H. Westing, a botany professor from Windham College, Dr. John Constable, Professor of Sugery at Harvard Medical School, and Robert Cook, a Yale graduate student. After conducting an investigation in Vietnam during August and September, the Commission returned to this country and began to sort out their data and observations. A preliminary report on their work was issued in December at the AAAS 1970 meeting, but much of their laboratory work remains to be done...
...Meselson's group surveyed the sprayed area of the valley a few days after the crop destruction operation. Their observations were exactly the opposite of the rationale given by the Chemical Corps for the spraying...
...crop destruction has been in the Central Highlands, where the population is largely Montagnard tribesmen, an ethnic minority in Vietnam. The crop spraying has a catastrophic impact on the Montagnard people; the story that follows tells of the Song Re valley in Quang Nai province, a highland valley Meselson's group looked at closely...
...officer responsible for the operation took Meselson's group on a tour of the valley and explained the reasoning that led to this decision...