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...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. "I think the figure should be very, very big," says Nguyen Trong Nhan, president of the Vietnam Red Cross. "We have more than a million victims, so there should be many billions of dollars...
...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...
...lecture also drew many of non-Chinese andnon-Asian background. Betty Nhan ' 98, a member ofthe audience, said she was particularly surprisedat the number of non-Asians who attended thelecture...
...Dang-Nhan Tong Sceaux, France...