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...have no capacity whatsoever to deal with nuclear war," said Reutershan of the Public Health Service, sounding offended by a chaos that beggared his means to cope. Indeed, for prac- tically everyone in the convention hall, nuclear war would be the ultimate professional frustration, not the ultimate challenge: With suffering and death so vast, whom to rescue and whom to mend? Where to erect the police barricades? Theirs is not so much a fascination with disaster as it is a half-religious, half-martial hankering to see what they can do to help. Nuclear holocaust would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Indiana: Poised for Catastrophe | 6/24/1985 | See Source »

...were conceived after the war, began displaying symptoms identical to those known to be caused by dioxin poisoning shortly after the servicemen returned to the U.S., but they and their doctors long failed to connect their illnesses to Agent Orange. After reading about the Seveso incident, however, Paul Reutershan, a veteran who was suffering from cancer of the colon, filed suit in 1977. He died the next year, at age 28, but by then Victor Yannacone Jr., the lawyer who had brought the 1966 suit that helped ban DDT, had taken up his case. The defendants are Dow Chemical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Where Is My Country? | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

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