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...court in Uniondale, N.Y., last week, Sutton partook of a bittersweet victory. U.S. District Court Judge George C. Pratt ordered the opening of heretofore sealed documents gathered for a multibillion-dollar lawsuit by some 20,000 Viet Nam veterans and their relatives against Dow Chemical and four other companies that manufactured Agent Orange. One of the substances present in the herbicide, used in the Viet Nam War to defoliate enemy crops and jungle hiding places, is the dangerous chemical dioxin. The documents reveal that Dow officials had knowledge even before the mid-1960s that exposure to dioxin might cause people...
When the flamethrower on the Navy gunboat burned off foliage along the riverbank of the Mekong Delta in Viet Nam in 1967, recalls Robert Sutton, a ship's gunner, "I inhaled the fumes of the foliage that had been killed by Agent Orange." Before long, he says, he began suffering from diarrhea, vomiting and headaches, and in 1969 was given an honorable discharge. Back in West Babylon, N.Y., the veteran's health deteriorated rapidly; today the unemployed steam fitter's ailments include brain lesions and degenerative joint disease...
Perhaps the most significant law that may be affected is one already prompting considerable debate: the 1973 War Powers Resolution. Passed at the end of the Viet Nam War and designed to prevent similar foreign adventures, the resolution places a 60-day time limit on involvement of U.S. combat troops in an undeclared war, unless Congress grants an extension. Experts not only in the Administration and the Senate but outside Government generally agree that this central feature remains in force. Such a limit, established in advance, seems crucially different from a legislative veto, since it does not need...
...mental capacities washed away. He lives on as an automaton who is still a terror on the courts. The second reprised story, Midnight and I'm Not Famous Yet, deals chiefly with Captain Bob Smith of the U.S. Army and the crisis he undergoes during the war in Viet...
...nonfarming siblings. The 320-acre spread is coveted by a clutch of corporations, and the family is divided on whether to sell. The only kinsman making real money from the acreage is Tanner's nephew Billy, raising bumper crops of marijuana on the back 40. An embittered Viet Nam veteran and victim of dioxin burns, Billy has succeeded in exposing several of Chaldea's leading villains. When he is found hanging from a tree, town and family are only too happy to accept the official verdict of suicide. Tanner is convinced his nephew was murdered...