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Friday, February 22, 2002 Page 4943 of 5115 Veterans Administration

November 1985 AGENT ORANGE Meeting Veterans' Concerns

SOUTH A COMMITMENT TO SERVING VETERANS CONCERNED ABOUT AGENT ORANGE AGENT ORANGE

The Veterans Administration (VA) has been directly involved in the conduct and monitor- ing of a wide variety of research and other ac- tivities related to the many and complex pieces of the Agent Orange puzzle. A number of these major efforts are discussed on the following pages. Additional information is available from the Agent Orange Projects Of- fice (10X2), Veterans Administration Central Office, Washington, DC, and the environmen- tal physician at the nearest VA Medical Center or Outpatient Clinic,

MEETING VETERANS1 CONCERNS RESEARCH mm JSP*! Vietnam Veterans Mortality Study

This effort is designed to assess mortality pat- terns among U.S. Army and Marine Corps veterans who served during the Vietnam era. A sample of 75,000 veteran deaths has been ran- domly selected from VA files. For each of these veterans, military service and cause of death in- formation is being collected and coded. The two types of data will be merged and analyzed to compare the mortality experience of veterans who served in Vietnam with veterans who served elsewhere during the Vietnam era. An important element of this study will ex- amine and compare the prevalence of suicide in the two groups.

Soft Tissue Sarcoma Study

The study is a joint project of the VA and the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) to provide information concerning the possible relationship between Agent Orange exposure in Vietnam and the development of a relatively rare form of cancer known as soft tissue sar- coma (STS). The project is based on several hundred cases of STS seen between 1975 and 1980 and entered into the AFIP's STS registry. The records of each case will be reviewed to determine if the individual served in the military and if so, whether in Vietnam or not. For those who served in Vietnam, an assess- ment will be made as to the likelihood of ex- posure to Agent Orange or other environmen- tal factors which may have effected the risk of developing soft tissue sarcoma. Soft Tissue Sarcoma Review Epidemiological Study

This is a parallel effort to the VA/AFIP Soft Under an interagency agreement with the VA, Tissue Sarcoma Study. This health survey ob- the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta, tains information from the VA's Patient Treat- Georgia is conducting a large-scale study to ment File, a large medical data base of all see if military service in Vietnam and ex- veterans admitted to VA medical centers. Any posure to Agent Orange have caused an in- Vietnam era veteran treated in a VA hospital creased risk of adverse health effects. This with a diagnosis of soft tissue sarcoma from project has three components: the Vietnam 1969 to 1982 will be included in the survey. Experience Study, the Agent Orange study, The data will be analyzed in order to compare and a study of selected cancers. The Vietnam the anatomical site, histopathology and fre- Experience Study will involve two groups of quency of various types of soft tissue sar- Army enlisted veterans. One group consists of coma among Vietnam and non-Vietnam 6,000 individuals who served in Vietnam and veterans. the second, or control group, is composed of 6,000 veterans who served elsewhere during the same period of time. The Agent Orange Dioxins and Furans in study will look at a total of 18,000 Army Human Adipose Tissue

This study is a cooperative project between the VA and the Environmental Protection Agency to determine if military service and duty in Vietnam are correlated with levels of TCDD in human adipose tissue. This retrospective study will consist of a chemical analysis for selected chlorinated dioxins and furans and will provide data on the background levels of TCDD in the U.S. male population and compare these levels among veterans who served in Vietnam, veterans who served elsewhere and non-veterans.

Investigator Initiated Research

A number of Agent Orange-related research projects are underway at various VA medical centers across the nation. Most of these ef- forts are animal studies examining the biological and psychological effects of TCDD. The selected projects include studies of the impact of Agent Orange components on liver cell function, skin cell chemistry relating to chloracne, and problems relating to the nerv- ous system. AGENT ORANGE 4 veterans in three groups of 6,000 each. The service personnel in Vietnam. This project uses groups will differ with respect to levels of a matched cohort design incorporating mortality, Agent Orange exposure and combat ex- morbidity and prospective follow-up studies. perience. The selected cancer study is designed Reports were issued in June 1983, February to determine the risk of developing specific 1984, and December 1984. Results have types of cancer among Vietnam veterans. This revealed no indication at the present time that study will utilize resources of several state Ranch Hand personnel have experienced in- and metropolitan tumor registries. creased mortality rates or any unusual causes or patterns of death. Analysis of the morbidity data does not suggest a cause and effect rela- tionship between herbicide exposure and Birth Defects Study adverse health among the Ranch Hand per- sonnel. With partial funding from the VA, the CDC ad- dressed the question: Are Vietnam veterans at an increased risk of fathering children with Australian Studies birth defects? Investigators concluded that Vietnam veterans, in general, did not have an The VA is closely monitoring research ac- increased risk of fathering babies with tivities in Australia. The Australian govern- defects. Vietnam veterans who had greater ment has released the results of two Impor- estimated opportunities for Agent Orange ex- tant studies conducted by Australian scien- posure did not seem to have a greater risk of tists to address the birth defects issue and fathering babies when all types of defects assess mortality patterns among Australian were combined. However, for a few specific veterans of the Vietnam conflict. Investigators types of defects the estimated risks were concluded that Australian Vietnam veterans slightly higher for subgroups of Vietnam showed no increased risk of fathering a veterans that may have had a greater malformed child. Using accepted statistical likelihood of exposure to Agent Orange. The standards, the mortality of Vietnam veterans investigators concluded that these seemingly from all causes was not found to be higher risks could be chance events or significantly higher than the mortality of possibly the result of some unidentified fac- veterans who did not serve in Vietnam as well tor. They do not believe that the evidence sug- as non-veterans. gests an increased risk due to Agent Orange exposure. States Studies Air Force Health Study A number of State governments (e.g., Texas, (Ranch Hand II) Massachusetts, West Virginia, New York, New Jersey) have completed or initiated efforts to This is a long-term investigation of the possible investigate the health impact of Vietnam serv- adverse health effects of herbicide exposure on ice among their veteran populations. The VA Air Force personnel attached to Operation is following these efforts and has provided Ranch Hand, the military command responsible assistance to many of these programs. for the great majority of herbicide spraying mis- sions in Vietnam. These individuals are believed to be among the most heavily exposed of all 6 HEALTH CARE SERVICES AND OTHER BENEFITS

Agent Orange Registry Examinations

The Agent Orange Registry examination pro- gram is an important service offered by the VA to every Vietnam veteran concerned about the health effects of herbicide exposure. Par- ticipating veterans are asked about their con- tact with herbicides and receive a comprehen- sive medical examination including a series of base-line laboratory tests. Where medically in- dicated, consultations with specialists and follow-up services are provided. Veterans are advised of the results in person and by letter. Information from the examination is documented in each veterans' permanent medical record and included in the com- puterized registry file. More than 200,000 Viet- nam veterans have received the registry ex- amination.

Treatment

Under the provision of Public Law 97-72, special priority health care services are pro- vided to eligible Vietnam veterans for any con- dition possibly related to exposure to her- bicides used in Vietnam. Eligibility informa- tion is available at all VA medical centers.

Disability Compensation

Vietnam veterans with injuries or illnesses in- curred in or aggravated by military service may be entitled to compensation benefits. Veterans do not have to prove that Agent Orange caused their medical problems to be eligible for compensation. Additional informa- tion regarding disability compensation can be obtained at any VA facility.

Interim Benefits __

Vietnam veterans may be eligible for tem- porary benefits if they are suffering from chloracne or porphyria cutanea tarda, occur- ring within a specified period of time follow- ing departure from Southeast Asia. These benefits were authorized by Public Law 98-542.

10 EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES

Literature Review Monograph Series

The VA has an on-going program for the The VA is engaged in publishing a series of review and analysis of all scientific publica- scientific monographs on birth defects and tions concerning the herbicides used during genetic counseling; , a cacodylic the Vietnam conflict, with special emphasis acid herbicide; human exposure to phenoxy on the biological and possible adverse health herbicides; and chloracne. effects of exposure. The first two volumes of this scientific report were published in 1981 and additional volumes and lay language sum- maries are published at regular intervals. For Videotapes information on how to obtain these documents, contact the Agent Orange Pro- The award-winning videotape "Agent jects Office, Veterans Administration Central Orange: A Search for Answers" is available Office, Washington, D.C. for viewing by VA employees, veterans groups and the general public. In addition, Agent Orange-related films for training of VA staff are produced from time to time. Agent Orange Review

These pamphlets describing VA Agent Orange-related activities, significant developments, research, congressional action, and similar matters are periodically published by the VA and are sent to veterans who have participated in the Agent Orange Registry, veterans service organizations, and other in- terested individuals. Anyone who would like to be added to the mailing list to receive the "Review," should send name, complete ad- dress and social security number (if a veteran) to the VA Data Processing Center (200/392), 1615 E. Woodward Street, Austin, Texas 78772, ATTN: Agent Orange Clerk. 12 13 America is #1 Thanks to our

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MAY 6 - JUNE 29, 1982 Date: Agent Orange News Clips SOURCE BEE CITY AND STATE SACRAMENTO, CA DATE OF PUBL. May 6, 1982 Possible Link Of Agent Orange, Rare t^aiw^t. -i/V-S ^"l^.J^*;%-^.^»;^«i.;j^p«e*,5^,i4*'.Ja.-$£i^Sr; BOSTON ..-:•• ington, said the UCLA study would involve thou- • A spokesman for the Veterans Administration sands of veterans and would take four to five Hospital of Atlanta, where the doctors work, said 'years.' '• •"•: • ' - ' .•'" '•• : . --\-' .';• ,••• . three cases is not enough to establish any link "It is intended to provide the very best evi- ' between the chemical and cancer. dence possible of any adverse health effects The report will be part of a larger study coordi- nated by UCLA, in which the national VA is par- ticipating. "To jump to conclusions about cause and. effect (•- •> • •. y- vv . y would be irresponsible, at the very least, I would which might be due to exposure, to Xgent Or- say," said Charles Grim, the hospital's associate ange," he said/ - • .' ' • - - :':.-: . : ; director. The doctors, P. Ravi Sarma and Julian The Air Force is studying about 1,000 members Jacobs, were unavailable for comment. of air crews who Handled and sprayed Agent American Cancer Society officials estimate Orange in Vietnam. Participants will be followed soft-tissue sarcomas affect two people per 100,000 for 20 years.. , * population each year. A total of 4,500 hew cases and 1,600 deaths are expected this year. .•, : In addition, the Center for Disease Control In Agent Orange is believed to be linked with vari- Atlanta is studying 10,000 births to determine if ous forms of cancer, paralysis, nerve damage, exposure to chemicals such as Agent Orange .is stomach, kidney and liver problems, loss of libido related to birth defects. , .>•••• and other ailments. It also has been shown to * Moen said the VA allows veterans who believe cause chloracne, a severe skin irritation resem- they have been exposed to dioxins to undergo test- bling ordinary acne which is easily treated. • big and examinations. Their cases are filed in:, a central data bank for future reference. . > • SOURCE REGISTER CITY AND STATE NAPA, CA

''*- $%£**'X?^**5*s''"* ••^'•K*'" -. sucn as Agent Orange to BOSTON tUPI) - Doctors about cause and effect would Accounting Office reported at related to birth defects. , are trying to determine if the' be irresponsible, at the very least llrOOO Marines and Moen said the VA allows toxic herbicide Agent Orange least, I would say," said "Bumerous" Army personnel veterans who believe they was responsible for three Charles Grim, the hospital's were within a third of a mile of have been exposed to dioxins cases of a rare lung cancer hi associate director. • .. the 'Vietnam countryside to be tested. Their cases are three Vietnam veterans. • v-.-r The doctors, P.Rart Sanaa sprayed with Agent Orange. filed in a central data bank for Emory University resear- .{•tarereference. ' si- ^—.4 chers, writing in the recent vailabk for comment. V $ ** fhe chemical range from fa the Emory cases, two edition of the New England . American Cancer Society of- 150,000 to J50.000. patients, one a member of an Journal of Medicine, said one " ficials estimate soft tissue sar: ,;• Edward Moen, « spoksman Air Force helicopter rescue of the men died of the cancer, . comas affect two people per for tMVA in Washington, said team and the other a Marine, known as soft-tissue sarcoma. |00,000 a year. A total of 4,500 the UCLA study will involve were stationed in areas of The tumors grew in the new cases and 1,600 deaths are thousands of veterans and will Vietnam where defoliants veterans' lungs and in the fatal expected this yearly •, •,• take four to five years. . V.v were used in 1966 and 1967. ,, case, the brai! n also was af-: , Agent Orange is believed to .'." "|t is intended to provide the The Ah* Force man under- fected. - ; ":.-. ••"• - be linked with various forms of very best evidence possible of went lung surgery in 1979 for a A spokesman for the Veter- cancer^ paralysis, nerve any adverse health effects tumor and died in 1961. ans Administration Hospital of damage, stomach, kidney and which might be due to ex- The Marine, who claimed to Atlanta, where the doctors liver problems, loss of libido posure to Agent Orange," he be twice "completely soaked work, said three cases is not and other ailments. It also has said., -f •'. ••-.•••!' ; with Agent Orange," had his enough to establish a link , been shown to cause The Air Force is studying left lung removed because of a between th e; chemical and . cUoracne, a severe skin irrita- some 1,000 members of air tumor,. The cancer spread in cancer.' '. -.":, ''.'*• t?TX*. tion resembling ordinary acne! crews who handled and 1961 and the researchers said The report will be part of a and is easily treated. sprayed Agent Orange in Viet- currently he is receiving larger study coordinated by The effects allegedly are nam. The participants will be chemotherapy. the University of California at caused by dioxto, a byproduct followed for 20 years. * ' The third patient, an Army Los Angeles, in which the In the manufacture of Agent In addition, the Centers for man who served in 1971 hi an national VA organization is Orange. Dioxin cannot be Disease Control hi Atlanta is area where defoliants were participating. eliminated from the herbicide. studying 10,000 births to deter- used, was discovered to have a; : "To jump to conclusion The tederti General mine if exposure to chemicals lung tumor in 1981. NEVADA STATE JOURNAL CITY AND STATE RFNO. NV DATE OF PUBL. May 6.

Society officiate estimate •aft tissue sarcomas affect two people per 1W.600 population each • V year. A total of 4,500 new cpses and 1,600 deaths. ajjef expected this year. \. r BOSTON (UP!) -: >&gent Orange is t Three Vietnam veterans believed to be linked with •'from the Atlanta area yarious forms of cancer, I exposed to the toxic her- j paralysis, nerve damage, > bicide Agent Orange stomach, kidney and 1. developed a rare form of liver problems, loss of lung cancer, but it's apt Ijjbido and other ailments. .known if the chemical It|ilso has been shown to caused the 'daose cbloracne, a severe Emory Un aria irritation resembling researchers repo; drdbary acne and which Wednesday. • Uneasily treated, " One of the vete •^^effects allegedly died of the cancer, caused by dioxin, a as soft-tissue sarcfljpaifci uct hi the manu- The tumors grew iontc of Agent Orange, veterans' lungs and and cannot be elimln- in the fatal case,1 the from the herbicide, brain also was affected,]1 ^stimates of GIs the doctors wrote in f let- exposed to the chemical ter to the New Engtaittf range from 250,000 to Journal of Medicine, ^J1 A spokesman fof the Veterans Administration • Hospital of Atlanta, where the doctors work, said three cases i£ not enough to establish any link between the chemi- cal and cancer. ; The report will be part of a larger study coordin- - ated by the University of California at Los Angeles, in which the national VA organization is participating. .'To jump to conclu- sions about cause and effect would be irrespon- sible, at the very least, I would say," Charles Grim, the hospital's asso- ciate director said. The doctors, P., Ravi Sarma and Julian Jacobs, were unavailable for com- SOURCE The Augusta Chronicle^ CITY AND STATE Augusta, Georgia OATEOFPUBl.. May 6, 1982 e-cancer \; T^. ^-^5-j* ™'f '-'-/ ' BOSTON (Wft i*'three Viet- fiiird it • nifte trf the Vletpam coui^ «am veterans from the Atlanta area . exposed to the toxic herbicide Agent Estimates of GIs exposed to the Ichemical range from 250,000 to 350,- i.Orange developed a rare form of '\ . lung cancer, but it's not known if the •chemical caused the disease, Emory • Edward Moen, a spokesman for University researchers reported the VA in Zashington, said the-UCLA Wednesday. - , study will involve thousands of ve- One of the veterans died of the terans and will take four to five 'cancer, known as soft-tissue sarcom- years. • a. The tumors grew in the veterans' ' "It is intended to provide the very lungs and and, in the fatal case, the 'best evidence possible of any ad- brain also was affected, the doctors verse health effects which might be wrote in a letter to the New England to exposure to Agent Orange," Journal of Medicine; , . said. -. -- '' '•:*•••-• •- . - • * A spokesman for the Veterans The Air Force is studying, about Administration Hospital of Atlanta, •i,008 members of air crews who han- where the doctors work, said three 'died and sprayed Agent Orange in cases is not enough to establish any I Vietnam.. Participants wQl be fol- link between the chemical and can- lowed for 40 years. • *-l'. '. cer. . In addition, the Centers for Dis- , The report will be part of a larger ease .Control in Atlanta is studying study coordinated by the-University 10,000 births to determine if expo- of California at Los Angeles, in sure to chemicals such as Agent Or- which the national VA organization r ange is related to birth defects.. !' is participating. • ;; Moen said the VA allows veterans !'.' "To jump to conclusions about [ who believe they have been exposed "cause and effect would be irresponsi- '•'• to dioxins to undergo testing and ex- i ble, at the very least, I wpuld say," aminations. Their cases are, filed in | Charles Grim, the hospital's asso- i a central data bank for Mure refer- j date director said. The doctors, P. • ence. • . , Ravi Sarma and Julian Jacobs, were v- In the Emory cases, two patients, ' unavailable for comment. ; one a member of an Air Force heli- * American Cancer Society offi- ; copter rescue team and the other a cials estimate soft tissue sarcomas affect two people per 100,000 popula- V Marine, were stationed in areas of • tion each year. A Total of 4,500 new Vietnam where defoliants were used I cases and 1,60deaths are expected fin 1966 and 1967. ' > • • thisyeari; .<,i«'i-^ :^4ijj& •'•• ?t3 •;• ' ''••- The Air Force man underwent ,t Agent Orange IB believed to be '• lung surgery in 1979 for a tjrpe of tu- linked with various forms of cancer, mor. He died in 1981. . •;• paralysis, nerve damage; stomach, The Marine, who claimed to be kidney and liver problems, loss of li- 'twice "completely soaked with •; bido and other ailments. It also has Agent Orange," had his left lung re^ • been shown to cause chloracne, a se- moved because of a tumor.-The can: • vere skin irritation resembling ordi- ' cer spread in 1981 and the research- ;• nary acne and which is easily treat- ers said he is currently receiving ed. ... • •..;•'... :•.... '.•-..• chemotherapy. . •; i& • The effects allegedly are caused • The third patient, an Army man ; by (tioxin, a by-product in the manu- Who served in 1971 in an area where' *• facture of Agent Orange. Dioxin can- defoliants were used, was discov-f not be eliminated from the herbi- ered to have a lung tumor in 1981. •' cide. ,. - -.- ./>-; . •• '- ^ The federal government's Gener- *al Accounting Office reported at "least 21,000 Marines and "numer- : bus" Army personnel were within a ' ' MANCHESTER WHO* l£H» MANCHESTER, W n. 64*77

Agent Orange, Cancer Tie Possible ./A BOSTONWPI) — Three Vietnam veterans 'personnel were within a third of a mile of the from tiie Atlanta area exposed to the toxic,'herbi- Vietnam countryside sprayed with Agent Orange. cide Agent Orange developed a rare form of lung : Estimates of GIs exposed to the chemical range cancer, but it's not known if the chemicaj caused ironl250,000to350,000. , ,* .;,...-,,, . the disease, Emory University researchers re; ' Edward Moen, a spoksmah for the VA in Wash- ported Wednesday. . r, - ; v One of the veterans died of the cancer, known ington, said the UCLA study will involve thou- as soft-tissue sarcoma. The tumors grew in the : sands of veterans and will take four to five years. • veterans' lungs and and in the fatal case, the "It is intended to provide the very best evi- brain was also affected, the doctors wrote in a dence possible -of any adverse health effects letter to the New England Journal of Medicine. which might be due to exposure to Agent A spokesman for the Veterans Administration1 Orange," he said. - = - , - Hospital of Atlanta, where the doctors work, said The Air Force is studying some 1,000 members three cases is not enough to establish any link • of air crews who handled and sprayed Agent - between the chemical and cancer. Orange in Vietnam. The participants will be fol- The report will be part of a larger study coordi- , lowed for 20 years. nated by the University of California at Los Ange- • In addition, the Centers for Disease Control in les, in which the national VA organization is par- Atlanta is studying 10,000 births to determine if ticipating. • •..-•. W exposure to chemicals such as Agent Orange is ' "To jump to conclusions about cause and effect related to birth defects! v would be irresponsible, at the very least, I would Meen said the VA allows veterans who believe say," said Charles Grim, the hospital's associate - they have been exposed to dioxins to undergo test- director. The doctors, P. Ravi Sarma and Julian ing and examinations. Their cases are filed in a Jacobs, were unavailable for comment. , .;'',. central data bank for future reference. " . ." • American Cancer Society officials estimate soft In the Emory cases, two patients, one a mem- tissue sarcomas affect two people per 100,000 a ber of an Air Force helicopter rescue team'and year. A total of 4,500 new cases and 1,600 deaths the other a Marine, were stationed in areas of are expected this year. V. $ ,.: .- " j. ;: Vietnam where defoliants were used in 1966 find Agent Orange is believed to be linked with vari- 1967.":,...... : „;,. •. . . .. - /;',.,;.. . ., ous forms of cancer, paralysis, nerve damage, •' ; The Air Force man underwent lung surgery in - stomach, kidney and liver problems, loss of libido 1979 for a type of tumor. He died in 1981. , -' , and other ailments. It has also been shown to The Marine, who claimed to be twice "com- cause chloracne, a severe skin irritation resem- pletely soaked with Agent Orange;" had his left bling ordinary acne and which is easily treated. " lung removed because of a tumor. The cancer' The effects allegedly are caused by dioxin, a ..•[ spread in 1981 and the researchers said he is cur- byproduct in the manufacture of Agent Orange.., rently receiving chemotherapy. . • ' ; ; Dioxin cannot be eliminated from the herbicide., -¥- , The third patient, an Army man who served in The federal General Accounting Office report-,, 1971 in an area where defoliants were used, was ed at least 21,000 Marines and "numerous" Army discovered to have a lung tumor in 1981. ' . MANCHESTER, NH n. 64.477 fitsm MAY 6 1962 / , . , . . _.,. __ Science Panel To Research • V • . . > . •. "••"»-•.«•..••-'--- > .'-XT--'- .<,...-.-».•-••<• .» .. • . •_• . • . , . •

/i f Orange- *^ ,." Health• • >•• • Effects design for a research study on possi- Birth Defects Study — HHS Centers for Dis- ble health effects of exposure to Agent Orange by ease Control (CDC) in Atlanta expects to complete. Vietnam veterans has been approved by a science a study related to birth defects by September of ' panel of the White House Agent Orange Working next year. From a 'registry of 7,500 children with Group. birth defects, CDC will isolate those born to Vw£' f:- HHS Secretary Richard S. Schweiker, who nam veterans to determine if these veterans IwUfe f chairs the Cabinet Council on Human Resources to an increased risk of fathering children with birth which the working group reports, said: • . defects. If so, CDC will attempt to determine if the "With the incorporation of some recommended increase; is associated with exposure to Aggjjt . refinements, we feel the Veterans Administration .Orange.''' ,; >'• '..?. •.••"'..'"' '• • • now can proceed with a pilot study as the forerun- ,/• .NIOSH Toxic Study — The Department's Na- . ner for a more comprehensive study of veterans .'tional Institute of Occupational Safety and Health." f who may have been exposed to Agent Orange while (NIOSH) is looking into work place exposure of per-; serving in Vietnam." , » sons exposed to Dioxin, a highly toxic contaminant, The pilot study will test the mechanisms to be formed during the manufacture of the defoliants, • used in the full study and work out any design prob- 4, S-T, a'component of Agent Orange. t~* •. lems. The main survey will. Involve some 18,000 Vietnam veterans. - Schweiker said this study Is only one of several efforts being made to find answers to this problem. Other research efforts coordinated by the r Agent Orange Workshop Group include: ; Ranch Hand Study — This is a special survey of some 1,200 Air Force-personnel who were in- |. volved in Agent Orange spraying missions during i- the . Physical examination and ques- t turning is being done with these flight crew mem- fbers on a voluntary basis. EXAMINER CITY AND STATE SAN FRANCISCO, CA DATE OF PUBL» 198. 2

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,,;..w* ^f.-,;.;..".;», r«« Aeent Orang* ItDeheved to be Hnked wira various of cancer, paralysis, nerve damage, stomach, and Bverlprobtems, loss of libido and other ~«ii.»in-r;i*- ' •--' M'I'I-V-'- '" "~- J":i •- - • '"'• -- .• J'-. : - 4 - .' . ' >aumeuts. •.-,•",,. •" • ,.-•. .-«• •,-,,.- -,. ,• .v... -.-•,.,' t • • • ^ . ft also has been shown to cause chloracne, a severe -ftto irritation jesemhling ordinary acne and which tit „ Tte. effects allegedly are caused by dfcndn, a byproduct to the manufacture of Agent Orange. Dioidn cannot be eliminated from the herbicide. Hje federal General Accounting Office reported at least 21,000 Marines and "numerous" Army personnel [ .were within a third of a mile of the Vietnam ^countryside sprayed with Agent Orange,. ' .,• :,. ' i it Bstm»te« of tte number of GIs exposed to the tcbemical rangte from 250,000 to 350^)0a ••-•• • - ' •• F' Edward Moen, a spokesman for the VA ID .Washington, said -tne UCLA study win involve ; thousands of veterans and wul take four to five years. i|v Tae Air Force h studying approximatery UOOO |, members of air crews who handled, and sprayed I Agent Orange to Vietnam. The participants wffl " b'e County Press CITY AND STATE Everett,Pa. DATE OF PUBL. 7,1912

Orange.:....,,•,,.;. CJ ..1. victims. .to. ' receive aid i? HARRISBURG ,.' Goy» Thora- related to herbicides used in .Viet- l, burgh recently signed a bill creating nam.- ; ' - • -•;-- • - -''..•••'•• ':• .••' "|the Vietnam Herbicide Cominis- ".Chaired by the hate health |;sion, a commission created to aid secretary, the commission will issue ; Pennsylvania war veterans suffering information about the health effects gfrom health problems that may be caused by Agent Orange |md other* chemical defoliants, as well as help" veterans find state and federal assistance. In Pennsylvania alone, an estimated 200,000 Vietnam veterans are believed to have health problems related to exposure to poisonous herbicides. NEWPORT MM NEWPORT, H.

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ByJANEBAGLE80H .*etortai.- -**• - - ••- •• •-•- - ..,.. - . , : - At 41, a Newport Navy commander i ft .* tiffin* tor leaders ol toctl ' disease could be related. lwas forced to retire because of his af- Uwtertnt' fnmf to d«termia« how I "I just want to know what caused my fliction with Multiple Sclerosis. Two 3 jmany local former GI's may have been Ifeealth to go to hell," Brugman said. years later. 'Tom Brueman to 'now exposed 4o the herbicide, Max "I'm convinced the VA is doing its best LoudensUger of the Disabled to get a handle on the situation. ' thinking his disease could be related ..American Veterans, Kerins Hogan his Vietnam experience and his K "The government or chemical com- je. . .„ •' Chapter of Newport County, said. Viet- i panies are not going to admit messing ; Middlefown also > ' nam veterans usually do -not join ,up," Rugged said. "It's a dangerous thinks he was affected by Agent ' * veterans' organizations because they chemical — I don't think they'll ever , Orange, but in a different way. Rug- ' try to forget the war and avoid any admit it." ''• geri's Vyear-old daughter is severely ; association with it, ~ - - The VA has asked that veterans who • dienta% retarded and he fears her ' Local veterans' groups have tried to were possibly exposed to the herbicide ! condition is a 'delayed effect of his con- Vets to the possible dangers of to report to a VA hospital for screen- tact with the chemical. !" ' 1 ": exposure to Agent Orange. Brugman ing. The VA is attempting to gather the Agent Orange, a herbicide used in" ti-eceived a letter from the Newport histories of those vets who were expos- Vietnam, is now posing a threat of t DAV chapter about a meeting to ed, but medically not much can be delayed health effects to those Viet- : discuss Agent Orange. Brugmaji at- done right now. . um veterans who were exposed to it. ^ tended the meeting, but he found he • For this reason, Ruggeri has not j; A is unknown how many of the 17,000 "had more questions than there were gone for a medical screening. 'Vietnam vets in Rhode Island are *'"«nswers.! " ' - •-'•--. •- '—' "They're not going to be able to do possible victims. -,<,.•:.• «- Brugman found that of the 10.6 anything for my daughter," he said. r VI don't have any bitterness," 'million gallons of Agent Orange Ruggeri said he is frustrated by this " Brugman said."I know Agent Orange -dumped during one year he was in situation. "There is not anything saved lives. I just wish they could have ? Vietnam — a third of it was sprayed in anyone can do. Nothing at all," he used something less toxic," he said. t tte area he served. He was potentially said. 'V .. . 'Agent Orange was a herbicide used , * exposed to a very concentrated level of Two bills have been introduced into it Vietnam to defoliate trees which f the chemical. •<•'•• *<••' the Rhode Island General Assembly would have provided cover for the t' WhUe in Vietnam in 1966 and 1967, that would give Vietnam vets three enemy. It was used between 1962 and * Brugman served la the Rung Sat j; years to file a claim in court against 1971. f special tone. It was a free fire cone in the Agent Orange chemical manufac- '(Agent Orange exposure is a com- -• located on the Saigon turers. „•« plicated issue. Veterans-have reported 'River. He was never informed of the One bill has already passed in the '" defoliage spraying, but he could see it. * House and is in the Senate Judiciary ;.,a variety of symptoms, but a definite !'. He remembers one particular night : connection to the herbicide has not •Committee. The other is still in the ; been established. The issue hastily sur- when the stench of the spray pervaded 1 house. • - • faced in recent years. • • ;f< the American camp. «•'-"••-• - . Other states have set up Agent •f: Three cases of rare lung cancer in ! Elephant grass encircled the area 'r Orange commissions to study the pro- i Vietnam veterans are being added to '• where the American soldiers were 1 blem. "I would like to see a commis- evidence that is being collected in an 'camped. "The grass seemed to , sion established, but nothing has been j,effort to determine. U Agent Orange evaporate," he said. The area had ' done," Wayne Smith, a an outreach causes diseases. The information was been sprayed the night before, he said. * counselor at the Vietnam Veterans in a letter that appeared Wednesday in, S Brugman's condition was diagnosed IT Center in Pawtucket said. The Viet- the New England Journal of Medicine. 'as MS in November, 1974, But he is s, nam vet works in his spare time trying This evidence is Insufficient to if convinced that it is related nt .<«•<_ -doesn't have enough information on v • "There is not much concern about |Agent Orange to determine if his * it," Smith said. "If the vets don't speak University of California at Los up about it, no one else doe's." Angeles is conducting a study of cues allegedly linked to Agent Orange. The ratudy will involve thousands of .veterans and will take four years. -.Estimates of GI's exposed to the chemical range from 250,000 to 350,000. .,, Some of the symptoms reported in- 'elude loss of sex drive, chloracne, fiver fdamage, changes in skin color and sen- iwivity to light,, numbness or tingling in the extremities, psychological changes, sore joints, cancer and birth "defects rn the children .of exposed sou Dayton Daily News

CITY AND STATE Dayton, Ohio

DATE OF PUBL, May 8, 1982

Agent Orange on suspect list " of rare cancer ,-..•• •' •. CSn N«n S«vlc» '••' '• ' • ATLANTA — Emory University Medical School doctors say they have diagnosed a rare type of can- cer in three Vietnam War veterans, but more studies are needed before the possibility of a connection be- tween the disease and the herbicide Agent Orange can be established. . "If there is a risk of these (tumors) in veterans who served in Vietnam, .follow-up studies should be able to define it," Drs.'P. Ravi Sarma and Julian Jacobs wrote in a letter published in the most recent edition of the New England Journal of Medicine. THE DOCTORS, who are on the staff of the Atlanta Veterans Administration Hospital, diagnosed a general type of cancer called soft-tissue sarcoma in the three veterans. All three men said that they prob- ably were exposed to Agent Orange while serving in Vietnam. One of the patients was a member of a helicopter- rescue unit in Vietnam in areas where defoliants were used. The patient died in July 1981 from cancer at age 48. . . Another patient, 34, was a Marine in Vietnam who said he was twice "completely soaked with Agent Orange." He is undergoing chemotherapy for cancer. "Th'e fhlrfl patient, 22, has undergone surgery for treatment of cancer.^, •--... ^ ™ "If there is an increased risk of malignant disease cflr (Vietnam) veterans," Sarma and, Jacobs wrote,: '•then a more critical question that has to be ad- dressed is: Are the defoliants (Agent Orange) causa- tive, or is some other unidentified environmental fac- . tor responsible, acting alone or in concert with the defoliants?" . The doctors declined to talk to the press about r their findings. TIMES STAR CITY AND STATE ALAMEDA, CA DATE OF PUBL. May 8, 1982 er""^TT*f- '?-"'"""<•"•' *f--^T -ff,•***'-""-•••— ~. (,,... .f,f_f.-.j,„>»;•;.-.>.>/ p.^ |£v^,;. ( . , . „ 3 Viet vets found • Orange caused a variety af health ills in ATLANTA clear base camps, landing zones, water- can be established. .-'-* v . jt'iv, "If there is an increased risk of malig- ways and communications lines. The "If there is a risk of'these (tumors) in nant disease in .(Vietnam) veterans," spraying stopped when the number of veterans who served in Vietnam, follow- Sarma and Jacobs wrote, "then a more birth defects increased among Viet- up studies should be able to define it," critical question that has to be addressed namese women. . Drs. P. Ravi Sarma and Julian Jacobs is: Are the defoliants (Agent Orange) ' Agent Orange contains dioxin, one of wrote in a letter published in Thursday's causative, or is some other unidentified the most toxic substances in existence. edition of the New England Journal of environmental factor responsible, acting About (0,000 Vietnam veterans have sought VA physical examinations to see if Medicine. - ,'v;, .• .;,,.<< ^~ >..:?..* alone or in concert with the defoliants?". The doctors declined to talk to the press their health was impaired by contact with The doctors, who are on the staff of the 1 . the chemical. Atlanta Veterajns^Adjnioiatration Hospi- about thefa findings. ;i; " * tal, diagnosed a general type of cancer' However, Charles Grim, associate ' The Emory doctors noted that studies called son-tissue sarcoma in the three director of the Atlanta VA Hospital, said: from Sweden have reported a fivefold to veterans. An three men said that they •"You really can't draw any conclusions ' sixfold increased risk of soft-tissue sar- probably were exposed to Agent Orange from only three patients. For one thing, it coma in lumberjacks exposed to her- while serving in Vietnam. : , has not been verified if these veterans bicides containing dioxin. Also, long-term One of the patients was a member of a were exposed to Agent Orange. • follow-up studies of industrial workers in helicopter-rescue unit in Vietnam in areas "This information eventually will the manufacture of chemicals containing where defoliants were used. The patient become part of overall studies (concern- dioxin have disclosed seven cases of soft- ing the possibility that exposure to Agent tissue sarcoma to date. • .S MERCURY NEWS CITY AND STATE SAN JOSE, CA

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r . .,. . . IT f "Sfnis^teo or.i sftte* «tone<» -to, concert The spraying stopped when the • ATLANTA - Emory University' number of birth defects increased, Medical School doctors have taiZh ,... ,_. doctors declined to talk to among Vietnamese women. .,., that they have diagnosed_a rate. Oe press about their findings. r . Agent Orange contains dioxin, type of cancer in three Vietnam iVHowever, Charles Grim, associ- one of the most toxic substances in; war veterans but that more stud-. ' ate director of the Atlanta V A Hos- existence. About 60,000 Vietnam; ies are needed before the possiDUi- pital, said: "You teally catft draw veterans have sought VA physical. ty of a connection between the dis-. conclusions from only three examinations to see if their health; ease, and the herbicide Agent Or-, For one tting, it has not was impaired by contact with the, ange can be" established. • v^ 'r'* verified if these veterans chemical •,",'..- -,,. ^H there is a risk of these (tu-" were exposed to Agent Orange » , The Emory doctors said studies' more) in veterans who served to ['"This information eventuaSy; from Sweden have reported a five*. Vietnam, follow-up studies should wfll become part of overall studies fold to sixfold increase in risk of. be able to define it," Drs. P. Ravi (of the possibUity that exposure to soft-tissue sarcoma in lumberjacks. Sarma and Julian Jacobs wrote to Agent Orange caused a variety of ^ exposed to herbicides containing- s a letter published in Thursday's ;V dioxin. Also, long-term follow-up: * edition of the New England Jour-^ health problems in veterans)." V studies of industrial workers in the, nal of Medicine...; ,, V. T During the VSetnam War, U^l manufacture of chemicals contain- The doctors, who are on the staff planes dropped more than 12 mil- ing dioxin have disclosed seven* of the Atlanta Veterans Adminis- tton gallons of Agent Orange to cases of soft-tissue sarcoma so far.. tration Hospital, diagnosed a type wipe out crops and jungle hiding Several large studies are being. of cancer called soft-tissue sarco- * places of the enemy and to clear carried out to determine whether*. ma hi the three veterans. AH three base camps, landing zones, water- Agent Orange is linked to birth, men said they probably were ex- ways and communications lines.' defects and other health problems.• posed to Agent Orange while serv-.', ing* hi Vietnam." • -'•"'7:'V'*'-1 ^•'•'•*'. —' t-. One of the patients was a mem- ber of a helicopter-rescue unit in Vietnam in areas where defoliants 1981 from cancer at age 48. 'Another patient, S4, was a Ma- rine in Vietnam who said be twice was "completely soaked with Agent Orange." He is undergoing chemotherapy for cancer. The third patient, 32, has undergone surgery for treatment of cancer. "H there is an increased risk of malignant disease in (Vietnam) veterans," Sarma ..and Jacobs wrote, "then a more critical ques- tion that has to be addressed isf Are the defoliants (Agent Orange) causative, or is some other uniden- tified environmental factor respon- SOURCE ,0 Knoxville News-Sentinel CITY AND STATE J Knoxville, Tenn. DATE OF PUBL. 5-12-82

Fighting Battle •• . ,- • ."*^ ' • *^- : fo•JP-~?r :-.%^Orang^ -' •'' "-' e-r^V AidM • \|, ,,,- iJob ,• I s.. ,s.^->van* d"• - ' I.' By ALAN THOMPSON "r withr Agent. Orange, mainly on military adventures is a corner- Seriptw-Howord staff Writer ' grounds that there is no certain fink stone of the organization. ASHINGTON — Tents oh the between the defoliant and the vet- "We're .doing it because we mall near Capitol Hill . •. . erans' illnesses. '..'•' think it's right," says Zastrow. •\y designed .newspapers and ;• "We would like to see a realistic "When VVAW started it was to get iphlets stacked on a table, sta-, testing program, treatment, if it can us out of Vietnam and keep us from s piled pn top to keep the May* .be treated, and if not, compensation getting into that kind of war again." •" from blowing -them away for the .victims of Agent Orange," Zastrow, one of four national n and women In jeans and... says Peter Zastrow, 43,. a former coordinators for the group, says the rts of Army fatigues hammer- infantry unit commander now em- warm welcome that greeted the ana sawing, building an im- ./ployed as a mailman in Chicago. American hostages returning from ' ; Also on the agenda are a call for Iran and the deepening recession a scene ,that seems like a re- an emergency job training program with its high unemployment peat out of the 1960s, a group called geared • to fche • approximately prompted this week's rally. the Vietnam Veterans Against 'the 700,000 Vietnam-era veterans now "The thing with the hostages War is rallying in Washington this out of work, opposition to any cuts was here they were heroes and all weekend to press the case of Viet- in veterans benefits, and opposition they did was get captured," states nam veterans and warn against a to any additional ."Vietnam-type" Zastrow. "We were never heroes. new Vietnam-like involvement in involvement of U.S. military forces. That hit a lot of Vietnam veterans, Central America. ^ „. , •<'.. ' Zastrow, a graduate of Dart- who never thought about it before." .But they are older now. Some mouth with a master's degree from Both Zastrow. and Klim have are in their 40s, and their zeal is Indiana University, admits that his mixed feelings about the Vietnam moderated by the passage of time. organization's activist role in op- Veterans Memorial, which is now "I don't have any illusions that posing U.S. involvement in places under construction not far from tfceJVeterans Administration or the like El Salvador separates WAW where these veterans are rallying. getotagon is going to turn around from the mainstream veterans Medical treatment or a jobs pro- totaerrow and say, "You're right,'" groups and may alienate some po- gram might mean "a helluva lot says: Walter Ktim, 30,- an infantry tential members. more" to most Vietnam veterans veteran from Milwaukee. "But I But he says opposition to such right now, both say. tMnk we bring some credibility igtb'us. Even if there are only 300 et ufe, I think we can make an im- pact

u&v 1 4 1982 Vietnam Vets, twins "to be tested '.. / f WASHINGTON (AP)'- In tin attempt to validiy. '• .•<••...- . ..• -•.:-'•-• ;, learn if service in Vietnam damaged the health Young said population statistics suggest that ; • of GIs, the Veterans Administration may try to there were 93,000 pairs of twins among the 2.5 * vfind 400 men who served there and who have million men who served in the war.' :| ; identical twin brothers who did not take part in Of the 93,000, the statistics suggest, 7,200 > Nthe war. .', . . '". -. •... „;.*...••' ',-.'••' - •jneet the stipulation that one twin saw Vietnam • ;'• Officials said Thursday they want to compare service while his brother served in the military « the twins' physical conditions to find out if there but was not assigned Vietnam duty, Young ' is a basis for complaints by many Vietnam *aid. • '-._ : , . .;- .•; . .'•- :, •' > .j veterans that exposure to the herbicide Agent Only 400 sets would be needed for a I ' Orange has damaged them in a variety of ways. statistically valid study, he said. ; ; Specifically, the brothers would be examined Wisconsin, which keeps better records than ; • to see whether those who served hi Vietnam most states, reports that 89 pairs of qualifying ; u complained more often than their brothers of twin brothers live in Wisconsin. ,. • headaches, apathy, fatigue, muscle and joint "We think it can be done," Young said of the \ ~ pains, loss of appetite and weight, sleep distur- research proposal, calling it "a very exciting • ' bances, decreased learning . ability and concept." ;: • memory and sexual dysfunction. The Veterans Administration says it has no ' , The research project was described Thurs- evidence that exposure to Agent Orange, and ' • day to the Veterans Administration's Advisory dioxin, a toxic contaminant it contained, » •*„ Committee on Health-Related Effects of Her- damaged the health of servicemen, but it is con- £ • bicides by Air Force Maj. Alvin L. Young, an ducting research to find a final answer to that ; • expert on herbicide toxology. question. . j •, The idea came from researchers at the VA's About 8 percent of the land in South Vietnam :: Medical Center hi St. Louis. To go forward, it . was sprayed with the herbicide to destroy crops ; must be approved by VA headquarters and by a and defoliate trees to uncover communist ' review panel which would consider its scientific biding places in the jungles. . STERN PRESS «IPPING BUREAU BSRTHOUD, COLO.

COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO GAZETTE TELEGRAPH

^ 4 F >. |may-faceii- ^^ ^_ ^_ * ^^ *.-** .». .*-1. ^ ,. ^ ,,.,f« VA study : ""->»-' 'vi!.~ "•> i- • . •'. "' ' '-"•'"* ^ WASHINGTON (AP) - In an 'attempt to learn if service in v Vietnam damaged the health of iGIs, the Veterans Adminis- . tration may try to find 400 men , who served there and who have {identical twin brothers who did not take part in the war. . *: Officials said Thursday they I .want to compare the twins' phys- [• ical conditions to find out if there Is a basis for complaints by i many Vietnam veterans that ex- posure to the herbicide Agent 'Orange has damaged them in a variety of ways. i Specifically, the brothers {would be examined to see wheth- ^er those who served In Vietnam ^complained more often than (their brothers of headaches, apathy, fatigue, muscle and joint j>ajns, loss of appetite and weight, sleep disturbances, de- j creased learning ability and memory and sexual dysfunction. ! T The research project was de- scribed Thursday to the Veter- 1 ans Administration's Advisory " Committee on Health-Related ; Effects of Herbicides by Air : Force Maj. Alvin L. Young, an : expert on herbicide toxology. - ; - the Idea came from re- searchers at the VA's Medical .{Center in St Louis. To go for- /ward, it must be approved by • VA headquarters and by a re- : view panel which would consider tits scientific validiy. f Young said population I statistics suggest that there were | 93,000 pairs of twins among the |" 2.S mulion men who served in •the war..': ..• --. .--... , •>; f Of the 93,000, the statistics {suggest, 7,200 meet the stipu- | lation that one twin saw Vietnam | service while his brother served I in the military but was not as- i signed Vietnam duty, Young SOURCE THE FLORIDA UNION-TIMES CITY AND STATE Jacksonville, Fla. DATE OF PUBL. May 14, 1982 _ifV"S*S: fr-s^vvr* ":^1 r '•s****.*^*.' *m -.... _. '/^^ifiafef jralfwm^ r .^ vft* .«V!a. Av35- s<>/' -' ;»on

c ' ™ *«wa*4i^Ui 1 w™ vjfcflpTifJus^^ • was not aisigned Vietnam duty, iempt to loam if duty in Young said.' . ' .damaged the health " m •JOnly 400 seta of twins would be lters,lhe Veterans .. , p$ded for a statistically valid study, |VA) may try to find '- he said. • • ••#< ' •.«.-..-. ... ,••• •. fterod there and who Wipconsin, which keeps better re- -" than most states, reports that * pain | Officlals saW Sffi ...... ^^f think It can bl done," Young

;:'iilat-exposure to Agent Orange and ' >o dioxin, a toxic contaminant in the her- e health of ser- ,*•-—TCT ».fcw>«v«1 11 , »»•»• i* •• conducting re- __^ _ jJMN"S*I JDOIv*''^timt ?25 " a* **" to'*,•'*'' finia" n answe",'"'> r t«•''-o tha• t quea*, - :{^»"t&».^-*fo^Kl|lrtM.;1;r Abwt I percent of the land in South «iches, apathy, fatiguft mu*cle and <*> Vietnam was sprayed with Agent Or- Mnt P*ln», toss of appetite and ange to destroy crops and to defoliate

'Weight, sleep disturbances, decreased , IMM9 I t JA. moovaf communis1 t troooa* ** * -^* ^.L.111K^. _ _j J ^. ^ j.^iii i.iii; *, v_i i . _. •**/• T ^^^' ^^ J ^P«W • T^^ i ^ •««*-»««*^» ^-w^«r^ dysfunction. jt.u, objectiont of one of its I Air Force Mai. Alvte L, Young, a» member* the panel decided to go In- *XBS? % hwl»cWe toxicplogy, de; (Q secret session to review titans for scribedJ the »»earch project $* jnoat imbiuoui reaeawh project day to the VAU Advisory iTjui examination of the health of on Health-I^lat«T.|ff*c'tl toffi mWSijf differences ejdit cities. '***>.» •? >vf r / - " iStween thoM who served in the war « The idea for th« project citrif fro» those who did not. The project wearchers at the Wl hospital in St, take fivf years and cost mMons x>uis. The project must be approved V of dollars, v,^% J; ;.. , , •••»„,•-"; »y VA headquaneri and b£t ^inf^i Sarclay M. Shepard ; , the VA'a chief panel that would consider iti scttnti- medical officer concerned with Agent Ic validity.-- ,s ,- ;->••*-.tAjf ',. 'Orange, said the session would have i Young said population statii tic* to be secret so that surveyed veter- suggest that there were 90,000 pats of ans would not know what questions to twins among the IS million men who expect • ."'-j - •.-'''; . •':•- •'.,. ' • aerved in the Vietnam'Hpii*^•"t%f*^- • i David Erickson, the panel mem- I Of the 91,000, the Stttittlci show,' ^presenting the Centers for Dis- f,tOO meet the stipulation that one ease Control in Atlanta, said secrecy twin aerved in Vietnam white hli would undermine the project's credi- brother served in the military tout - - ' ' w-".- %•-> 3«-.? '' '' SOURCE Herald Examiner CITY AND STATE Los Angeles, CA DATE OF PUBL. May 14, 1982

may use twins In Viet vet study • WASHINGTON—In an attempt to learn if service *"-,—TJ damaged the health of GIs, the Veterans atkro may try to find 400 men who served i who have identical twin brothers who did not .. ^— part in the war. ;•<«*-• ---^.ft->V-*";-.-• '•-•• - • if 2£T Officials said yesterday they want to compare the ,r 4wiBs' physical conditions to find out if there is a basis ! 3&T complaints by many Vietnam .veterans that ' •exposure to the herbicide Agent Orange has damaged '.:" Stheir health/ ----v <•-•<-;•;:%•'*'•-'V-:-, •- • «any Vietnam veterans have blamed Agent I SOrange for a variety of maladies including headaches, : Japatby, fatigue, muscle and joint pains, loss of appetite 1' and weight, sleep disturbances, decreased learning lability and memory, and sexual dysfunction. . » Officials said population statistics suggest there I were 93,000 pairs of twins among the 2.5 million men ;• 'who served in the war. Of the 93,000, the statistics say, •7,200 meet the stipulation that one twin saw Vietnam {service while his brother served in the military but •was. not assigned Vietnam duty. , . . •. r - .'., ..!.,.- • '-';- i.-.. i ;,'• •*<•< i ...- ' .'sojAti/j.rjB ,v>i-iM5tffeiii-.:2; <&iZ APPEAL DEMOCRAT CITY AND STATE MARYSVILLE, CA DATE OF PUBL. May 14, 1982

^ifr. < .- - _ K .,..,,.,,..,*.,.,• "- tical Twins Sought WASHINGTO' N (AP^—lte Veterans Administration '"says it may launch a search for 400 sets of identical twins with a special characteristic: one with Vietnam service and the other without it. Officials said Thursday -that if plans receive final approval, they will compare ", thetwins'physicalconditionstobelpfindoutifthereisa basis for complaints by many .Vietnam veterans that '* exposure to the herbicide Agent Orange damaged their health. Air Force Maj. Alvin L. Young, a expert on I herbicide toxicolgy, said there-were 93,000 sets of twins f among the 2.5 million men who served in Vietnam. He :• said statistics indicate that 7,200 sets meet the criterion , and that only 400 would be needed for a statistically \ttidstudy, -.'. -..;• ^u*:^'.. ,.*„...;>.,'•. ^ ;,. SOURCE Enquirer and News CITY ANBattlD iTATBe Creek, Michigan

Staff Wrllpr..V'?^ f me how they watched a Jungle a act of Congress lias opened ^jftifl ottree* and foliage wither and die within a day. door to more research and ',' But today, many of these same soldiers are watching help for Vietnam veter- f- ans suffering apparent effects |v each other, in some, cases, wither and die,,'' " from .the defoliant Agent Orange. • But a Battle Creek veteran af- , fairs leader believes it will take an about the thousands of veterans But Kobes said most of the skin act of Dow Chemical Co. to give who nave been identified as hav- disorders of these patients have. teeth to the movement. ing suffered health-damaging ef- . been diagnosed as suffering from , Thomas Holies of Battle Creek,.. fects attributed to the defoliant such things as psoriasis and acne. who is president of the National' :•£•- He said that all Information on Association of Concerned Veter-! He* talks of a local Vietnam vet- ".Veterans tested at the Battle ans — along with representatives eran in his early 30s "who sat in , Creek center is sent to Washing- of the National Council of my office and cried because he ton, D.C., where the Veterans Ad- Churches and the national office 'looks like a leper. His hands, .- ministration and federal govern- of the Veterans of Foreign Wars — 'arms, shoulders and chest were a ment have established a medical went 09 record Friday at Dow's , mass of peeling, cracking skin registry to compile and analyze annual meeting in Midland asking and lesions. I'll never forget when . physician's findings of the veter- that it publicly release all re- the man, who like 500,000 other '- ans. ,•-.••.: search information and studies Vietnam veterans are unem- ; "We're also encouraged by completed during the develop- ployed, said 'I can't even go to the early.findings of 1,100 veterans ment of the defoliant. " " beach — who could stand to look participating hi the Ranch Hand They also asked for studies atme?'" , ~> : Operation — men who lived, showing the effects of the defoli- Another veteran he counseled is' drank and slept with Agent ant on employees Involved in the a "street person who continually Orange," Kobes said. "They all manufacturing process of the reaks out in rashes," Holies said. were actively Involved with the toxic chemical. "Veterans Administration offi- defoliant and are being closely . "That's one of the keys needed cials, according to Holies and monitored for any long-term med- to.open the Agent Orange safe," other veteran leaders, often say ical effects because of their expo- said Holies, who works as a coun- the rashes and lesions are a result sure." selor at Kellogg Community Col- of what they call post-Vietnam Holies said he becomes dis- lege. trauma syndrome. tressed at the irony of a 1971 Army Holies and others have been in- Although Holies acknowledges publication which advised that volved hi a four-year effort to get. that some skin irritations could be , - those handling Agent Orange governmental acknowledgment of attributed to stress conditions, should promptly rinse their eyes, the toxic chemical and side effects which have surfaced years after . skin and clothing after coming from using the spray to kill veg- the* conflict, he doesn't believe into contact with the defoliant. etation in the Jungles of Vietnam, that the syndrome is responsible "You couldn't Just run into a along with medical treatment and for the extent of many of the skin nearby shower after spraying gal- compensation for some of its vet- and other disorders attributed to lons of Agent Orange. They say eran victims. : . ' , coming into contact with the' contaminated clothing should be He said congressional action in spray.-;/ .---„-_. , ^... -..•'. washed before used, but some- late 1981 ordering hospitalization, Dr. Kenneth Kobes, chief of times you went days before you testing and medical care for Viet- staff at the Battle Creek Veterans could do this," Holies said. nam veterans who were exposed Administration Medical Center, "Agent Orange, according to to toxic substances found hi defoli- said that 406 Vietnam veterans the Army, is relatively nontoxic to ants such as Agent Orarge was a have requested Agent Orange man and animals, but will remove ^irststep. -.. • . .- :••: A; medical examinations in the past aircraft paint and walkway coat- *• "But there's got to be more," four years at the Battle Creek hos- ings." Holies said. "It will deterio- said Holies who Is concerned pital -an additional 314 at its ; rate rubber hoses and other parts Grand Rapids'outpatient clinic. of spraying equipment, the Army The Times^ CITY AND »TATt Shreveport, LA. DATE OF PUBL. May 16, 1982 _ ___ ^l^.vWi^aia^^fiSBsSsflifip*-

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;..»:r.^«.-;-vang. c,:.. C ^/ e- • - • - ^ .. -x. *-'.« i . ^^^^^ ?, »™»»u» te a cluttered office in Ffctchogn*, RYn he is the lead at- ,, r county of W,OM resMents, 'torney in Che- largest class-action ^^ farms and industry and Vietnam -product liability case in history — a much lik' e any othercoon' « Suit against, the manufacturers of. jAgent Orange. Marietta; with J'[ More than 30,000 veterans from all - 1 streetrand trolley Iracb. The'" ^-corners of the country .have joined in . |'fome aspect of the suit, and Yan- --^ayy with boat traffic carrying coal - nacone estimates another 50,000 actoriei thft line could claim some disability from ''---»---'''- ," .Agent Orange. Veterans from Aus- 1 llralia, New Zealand and Canada are WWIfW- all -the vegetation fin .the area was Agent Orange? _:. . -'«* rainbow eolor.*^.^ •^•- ^y;r ' ; ' --" It was no rainbow: uf . It was Agent « :'»"' *' ."'v?--> «i.- • ' ' thinks he is sure, Phillia works as a noliceman in Marjeua. It's the same job he wanted Agent Orange — a combination of r Whatever the source, Lucas, like when he joined the Marines, but some- T ; compounds known as 2,4,5,-T, and 2,4- Giiiespie, ijin Tritli mn rf ""*"* one thought he was too small to be a O, to be exact ^ was dumped on military policeman, so he was made a Vietnam in staggering 'amounts to *:• IIH1H-jlaM nHftfY Ifrfft« r ^JKBStihdith k*8 w>ff an(1 ffi™E machine gunner and sent to Vietnam. help Americans fight a war on terrain -,- HgftjflHyht^r^'J'.'j LI~g_ MiyMioeyu gi^fanHl SheHvShell' . The On one mission, he says, he i r thef '--(Sid not* knew.- A 'virulent _ children were horn three years apart bers walking through elephant grass herbicldei Jt :eeutd' wither1 ii forest f after he came back from Vietnam so sharp it cut his skin. The grass was r , WVVf *W»'«fr"*J ., .^. •,. ••< ,-- - ^ " ''oily; it had just been sprayed. In a , . Combining thetwp comjpbunds pro- imatter of 'days,1 he says, he was1 ducesid^oxin,,tenneil the deadUest -treated for a severe skin rash, but the 'compound made b^, man. Three {^Marines kept no records. •, • - ounces of dioxiQ introduced into New . |. Now, on a hot and humid day in York's water supplffFy 1could kill the "They're good kids. I'm not Jfarietta, Phillis feels like tearing his v-««»»»«'iU«iiiaH«k '": '« »;^ivc -.-..- • aayinB >«« «"» Oiey're like that be~- 3tu 1 Anflin-Ur- -»^--«—-"«•«- „ . OU111C dU V UUUMUi> UI suuatu i/yuvrautj cause of Agent Orange, but I would La J nurfile_andJaoks fell on Vietiu.m,:c«inpbined ifl the 19 like to know. I don't know what M^.^.^.... ^^^. "If it was just jungle million' gallons so| Agent -Orange lirot, it would have cleared up with an sprayed there between 1965 and 1970. j£;^'v'_^'i>V.'. *Je'tr'~v'"''-'~**f*'~l','f*?'~ '**'.," Antibiotic and not still be affecting me ":-, It ateo wafted over many, if not all; of I^To^victor Y^nnacone, it boils down" 10 years later. This stuff stays with tiie 2.4 million American troops there. v" one simple fact "All of the men jrie," Phillis says. "I suspect that ' Says one veteran, ^ -yo« went in went to Vietnam went there: "Agent Orange might have caused my ' .Vietnam, you were 'exposed, unless ««thy and came back SH*." 1 ;' . problem.'' -, v-;:,v .••*>••-•• • you; were in Sai|6n sipping Perrier V«t he knows that resolving the :. The Veterans Administration has •^a.te^'ii.r' ~ vii.wiai*' V-ri^-dawf 'V tOranj^isswis.notyjat simple denied his 'compensation claim be- iause he can^t prove he was treated. '••' '?•'—*". »•—i^,'^L. • »»..^: -I,,.. INDEPENDENT JOURNAL

CITY AND STATE SAN RAFAEL, CA

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•WHO™™, -»— do the terrible and the A Vietnam Somtchpalni. Or the depression, legacy •-s&wHstfjRffJktttt>. fc'oS'c^ * .,, *.,. JmStkXbidtobeHlled. - • ' - Pint In a three-part series

Three men from Washington County, Ohio. A county of 84,000 residents, with farms and industry and Vietnam veterans — much Uke any other country in America. • .. ^i^^JBtesiWftSS^ Nearly 2,000 Vietnam veterans live in Washington County, and the five mentioned here are among the growing number asking questions about Agent Orange. _ __ the • Afl^flv \jrftmEft *"•* A coin ptmitiofl o* ooinpoupfliii KfioiMfu aslM-T, and 2,4-D, to be exact — was dumped on Vietnam in staggering amounts to help Americans fight "S tt^iSdhaveW n the"•» that trailed fromaC- a war on terrain they did not know. A virulent i,Uve«wlth herbicide, H could wither a forest cover overnight • ' iskm. Combining the two compounds produces dioxin, , daughters, termed the deadliest compound made by man. Three ounces of dioxin introduced into New York's water ' *y*»iiiuv*uui~shelly, .rr*,..T^T . Th^e y""childre- n•••-.- were• oor•.-._a . tiire- j_..e yea. ^ n. supply could kill the city's population. . '. : Some 850 pounds of dioxin probably feD on Vietnam, apart after he came bac; k from Vietnam. Both an combined in the 10 million gallons of Agent Orange albinos. •'^ :^•••..•• ••.•; -...-' ,. IN,;.-,-'•^•-. •prayed there from 1065 to WTO. It also wafted over many, If not all, of the 2.4 million American troops there. Says one veteran, "If you wen in Vietnam, you ^Marietta is also where Roger PhiOis now works as a wen exposed, unless you were in Saigon sipping policeman. It's the same Job he wanted when be Joined Perrter wator." the Marines, but someone nought he was too small to. Some of those troops an taking action. They say be a military policeman, so he was made • machine i Agent Orange left them with • wide range of ailments, gunner ind sent to Vietnam. .•* > from cancen to sUn problems, from depression to birth 00 one mission, he says, be remembers walking! defects m their children. . through elephant grass so sharp tt cut his skm. The' Nationwide, 80,000 veterans an represented in law* grass also was ofly. It had Just been sprayed. In • i suits against the government or the companies oat matter of days, be says, he was treated lor • severe reduced Agent Orange. At least another 50,000 who say. •kin rash, but the Marines kept no records, v ;? . ' i affected have not yet contacted attorneys. Now, on a hot and humid day IB Marietta, Roger j of dollars and thousands of lives are at stake Phfflis feels like tearing his sin apart And In the — figures hard to comprehend in the abstract - - < wintertime, his irritated sUn turns purple and looks , Next! The Agent Orange lawsuits. , , i.. like scar tissue.'',, .-^ .._ ;--•-.... -„ ' . ' The Veterans Administration has denied his oompen- uttoo cUlra, becauN he can't prove ha was treated. , " ' ' " SOURCE THE UNION LEADER

CITY AND STATE Manchester, New Hampshire

DATE OF PUBL. Thursday, May 20, 1982

THE UNION LEADER, MANCHESTER, N.H. — Thursday, May 20,1982 'Agent Orange1 Problems Explored in TV Series 1 DURHAM — Tile problem!? of living with vie- tims of Agent Orange are explored on "Warri- or's Women," Friday at 10:30 p.m. oa New Hampshire Public Television/Channel 11. • "Warrior's Women" is part Tour of the 13- part series Matters of Life and Death which ex- plores issues of urgency to contemporary Ameri-'" can society. ' • . An estimated 500,000 of the 2.9 million Amer- icans who fought-in Vietnam are currently suf- fering post-traumatic stress .from exposure to the chemical defoliant, Agent Orange. This film explores five families who repre- sent a range of problems that many American veterans seem to be experiencing — alcholism, unemployment, violence, depression, suicide «r merely moral confusion about their rote in Viet- nam and why society hasn't chosen to welcome 'them home yet. ; Four women speak candidly about the prob- lems they faced and how their lives were affect- ed. They raise questions about society's neglect of the Vietnam veterans and how this will effect • the next generation. _ , ' "Warrior's Women" may be seen on Chan- •' nels 11 in Durham, IS in Hanover, 49 in Littleton, 52 in Keene, 59 in North Woodstock and 70 in North Conway. . „ * • . SOURCE CONTRA COSTA TIMES CITY AND STATE WALNUT CREEK, CA DATE OF PUBi-. May 22, 1982

, RENO — Two California men have amounts to « willful, intentional filed $11 million lawsuits against the and reckless disregard for the rights, .makers of Agemjjjange, charging that lives and safety of the plantiffs, and fur- - ?ihe herbicide manufacturers showed ther amounts to extreme and outrageous' .»»•__*_^'reckles• *_sA _ anj '•? d• wanto•*.* + ri • *n • ^ disregard• ;*T .. ' *7^- ''£'••" . fo> r . conduct," the suit uyi^W^t -<,*-*&'• i fe: Blake served »the Army in Vietnami the VIS. District troita 196S to 1970, and Fierner between i James E,{ Blake, fa, of Martinet, and 1967 an<} 1970. < v>>.-'!vj:;«'•:•• ,5»^4.•-:-, '•':»' Robert Scott Rerner, 3Jj jot Rough «nd 7r Their attorney, Jeffrey^'Toff ol Neva-t Ready, are among hundreds of similar da City, said Friday that Fierner has de-t -actions filed around the nation. FJernet veloped several tumors turoiughout USL has died a similar suit In slate court, his' body, apparently due to exposure to Attorney said Agent Orangey and "has noticed some £' The two men say they suffered severe personality changes and generavl ill mental and physical harm from expo- health." ^'^::c ^Vy;;-vv V '' '. sure to the herbicide, which was used to Blake has had "severe emotional and defoliate Vietnamese jungles in the late physical problems," including bronchi- 1960s and early 1970s. tis, severe headaches and depression, ac- cording to Toff. v ;K ; ; . v The suits, filed Thursday, charges seven companies involved In the manu- The companies named as defendants facture of Agent Orange with failing to in the suit are: Dow Chemical Co., Mon-, warn soldiers handling the herbicide that santo Co., Hercules Inc., Diamond Sham- tt was dangerous.; ^.^ -.|. ^ • •>-_; '-•• rock Corp., Thompson Hayward Chemi- r cal Co., North American Phillips Co. and The companies'handling of the chem- Uniroyal Inc. - ; SOURCE JEWS GAZETTE CITY AND STATE MARTINEZ, CA DATE OF PUBL. May 22, 1982

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Orange/s:-mw*v.;5:^-' ;^^ .•::.<';^^V;.:vS-: Sui- •••;•t, • '•:*. A Martinez Vietnam charges seven companies in- veteran has filed an $11 volved in 'the manufacture of. million lawsuit in Reno against Agent Orange with failing to the makers of Agent Orange, warn soldiers handling the her- charging that the herbicide bicide that it was dangerous. manufacturers showed The companies' handling of "reckless and wanton the chemical "amounts to a disregard" for his safety.. •••"•• willful, intentional and reckless The UJS. Distrist Court suit disregard for the rights, lives by James E. Blake, 82, is and safety "of the plantiffs, and among hundreds of similar ac- further amounts of extreme tions filed around the .nation. * and outrageous conduct," the Blake says he suffered suit says. severe mental and physical ' Blake has had "severe emo- harm from exposure to the her- tional and physical problems," bicide, which was used to including bronchitis, severe defoliate Vietnamese jungles in headaches and depression, ac- the late 1960s and early 1970s. cording to his attorney, Jeffery ; Jfhe suit .filed Thursday, Toff.^--.f. ••;..:•.-, >•' *» The companies named as defendants in the suit are: Dow Chemical Co., Co., Hercules Inc., Diamond Shamrock Corp., Thompson Hayward Chemcial Co., North American Phillips CO. and ^Jniroyal Inc..- ••,>:, :,'•:"-. .i.i;- SOURCE SAN RAMON VALLEY HERALD

CITY AND STATE LIVERMORE, CA

ide maker _*;., >.»_;; -. . ^California men iav« ffled $11 mfl, in the toff of »lion lawsuits against the makers of iod early 1970s. *f ' City, said Friday that | Agent Orangey charging that the . The writs, filed tia« several j hftWOaTttGraufacturers showed rrnnnr. rnrougnmir m^ ™~ jg. «"reckless and wanton disregard*', manufacture of rt-r".!^- -S«ffltf with failing to wa._ _ , .-.^.-•^ •;.-.• .: The VS. District Court suits by handling the herbicide that it wai lak* has had' frm*. m WOOL M of Martinet, dangerous. ^f^rrC^1 •'foy-g,'^®-* aS«l Hflpft" fiArtrt Ftcrner. 83. of»• • - Thecpmpanies' handliag of the Rough and Ready, .are among hun- chemical ''amounts to a willful, dreds of similar actions filed, intentional and reckless disregard companies named as defen- iaround the nation". Fierner has filed for the rights, lives and safety of dants in the suit are: Dow Chemical f a similar suit in state court, his the plantiffs, and further amounts'; Co., Monsanto Co., Hercules Inc., I attorney said Friday. *: *v ''*"'* to extreme and outrageous.vcoah^ Diamond Shamrock Corp., Thomp- f The *="> •**» «»« tti duct," the suit says. son Hayward Chemical Co., North American Phillips Co. and Uniroyal ' '' Salt Lake Tribune CITY AND STATE 'Salt Lake City, UT

DATE OP PUBL. May 23, 1982 it?-

^-". • *! {• 5 *T .« ffi^l ?">'•"•• ' ;•-V- JP.-T? "j>>"* •- ir* V". >:•?•« •• . i*. v (AP) - Six that awl $5 nutSon to special damages. manufactured or distributed Agent • The suit also wants Hendrix's two Orange, a defoliant used in the Vietnam attorneys, Gaylen Box and Robert War,. Have been sued for 17.5 million by Huntley of Pocatello, to be allowed to a Pocatello Vietnam veteran who argue on behalf -of the class-action claim* He has suffered medical prob- participants. That includes any unborn lepu because of his exposure to the children who may have birth defects as chemical* . ,•; • :- • - .>, -•- •„•' a result of a parent's exposure to Agent served in Orange, the lawsuit alleges. :, .!,•-/ li - Hendrix said that the six companies 'violated an implied warranty that humans would not be adversely af- fected by exposure to the chemical. -T——: i , ^7-i ^jt Th« suit also charges that the .Theswtalsoseetatorepresentttpto^ companies knew, or should have 4.5 million other former and present -known, that the chemical was danger- ma^ ;q&av and still sold it to the p.s.

emical Co., Hercules Inc./ ' Hendrix said in the lawsuit that Diamond Shamrock Inc., Thompson-- inadequate testing was done on Agent Hayward Chemical Co., Uniroyal Inc., Orange and alleged that the results of , and Diamond Alkali Co, are named as whatever testing was done were wil-

JT *T*T^r / -i\C ?-''-'^, V • '">*. f V-X'"" ^ fully covered up by the companies. Tne suit doei not name ^e U.8." '^ Agent Orange was sprayed from government as jaoany other Agent. helicopters in high-combat areas in Orange 'actions have in tije pasfc, t•,•;•'--.;:. Vietnam to kill jungle vegetation that : Hendrix is askingibe court to award'} provided shelter for Viet Cong and him 12.5" million in general.damages North Vietnamese troops. ,;, . )Ki*i^, .--m . "i?;'_:.-V' £ .':• ':± :. ' ' •• ^ PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU DALLAS Established 1910

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paf - . -«• J- .'.„». j~ — .-,_ x== •Aj-r^wornesQ. •;{ J • . '•• *y V-..T- By MIKE FEINSILBER The new, blue-covered, publication says: "During 1978, a theory was publicized" that veterans who were WASHINGTON (AP) — Veterans asking the govern- exposed to Agent Orange "might be subject to delayed ment about Agent Orange used to get a pamphlet list- , health effects from the exposure. ing the diseases that have been associated with expo- /"The theory was based on the fact that one of the sure to dioxin, a toxic contaminant in the 'Vietnam chemicals, 2,i5-T. contained minute traces of a toxic defoliant • >i,- ,;. chemical, dioxin (TCDD) which contaminated the her- -The publication discussed reports linking dioxin bicide during the manufacturing process. . with a variety of health disorders — headaches, liver • "The contaminant dioxin is of concern because ani- and blood disorders, nerve damage, cancer. ' mal studies have shown it to be toxic to certain species. Now veterans asking about Agent Orange get a Like other toxic substances, dioxin has produced a pamphlet that says worries about dioxin are only .number of serious conditions among laboratory ant based on "a theory" it may have caused "delayed matt." «,*.,., .;,.-.„ .. -,, ,, .... health effects." The publication does not name any of Moen, in an interview, said not many copies of the them. > • • . orange pamphlet were left and those that remained The Veterans Administration said in .revising the were taken off the shelves. But, he said, the blue pam- pamphlet no effort was made to tone down what veter- phlet was not intended to replace the orange one. He ans are told about the possible health effects of Agent : r said the. type is larger in the blue pamphlet so there Orange; " -•' - •--•>'• - ' was not as much room for the detail that the orange During the war, 0 percent of the land area of Viet- pamphlet had. nam was sprayed with- the herbicide to destroy Viet Moen noted, too, that a second new pamphlet, with a Cong crops and uncover the jungle hiding places of brown cover, has been issued to tell about medical communist troops. The spraying was halted after treatment offered veterans who believe they may have health questions were raised. —>•>-—...... --,„...,—' been exposed to Agent Orange hi Vietnam. ."It's a different pamphlet done by different people ,, A third, to come out next month, will answer fre- and a different administration," said Larry R. Moen, quently asked questions, he said, and another publica- who runs the VA's public information and education tion is planned to describe research under way or anti- program on Agent Orange/ . \. '"• .cipated. ^ . - , •„. He termed the old pamphlet "somewhat outdated." It bore a photograph of Max Cleiand, the wounded Vietnam veteran who beaded the VA hi the Carter administration. _- -: Both the old and the new publications assert that facts about possible health damage have not been established, u • ; r"- is.":. •••••.. —Bnt the old one .was more detailed about what is suspected. .? , <;,. -r.^'. l .'-,> :• . \ Jv. --.'- Said the old, orange-colored, pamphlet: "We do know that humans who have been exposed to dioxin during industrial accidents have developed a specific skin condition known as chioracne which closely resembles thecommon forms of acne. ''. , •'. "In addition, headaches, blood disorders, nausea, alterations in liver function-and nerve damage have , been reported... Some reports, have suggested that { people .exposed to dioxin have a higher incidence of T some forms of cancer. There are also reports that £• dioxin can cause enlargement of the liver and a ^decrease in the speed of transmission of nerve WESTERN PRESS . CLIPPING BUREAU BERTHOUD. COLO.

COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORAO GAZETTE TELEGRAPH JUN. 28 198fc Agent Orange veteran buried RIVERSroE, Calif. (AP) — A Viet- nam veteran whose death a year ago triggered national protest? about Agent Orange was finally buried Monday at the National Cemetery here in a quiet /ceremony attended by his son, ex-wife : and a few friends. ^ .-.,„ * James Roger Hopkins, 33, first drew national attention in March 1981 when he drove his jeep through the glass doors of Wadsworth Veterans Adminis- tration Hospital in Los Angeles as a protest over what he contended was inadequate VA care for the effects of the defoliant Agent Orange, widely • used in Vietnam. Inside the lobby, he jumped out of the - vehicle and fired nine shots from sever- al weapons into the walls and ceiling, and was arrested. Nobody was injured. . He died two months later, on May 17, 1981, and his death was ruled a suicide; But his body had remained in the Los Angeles County coroner's morgue for more than a year pending a second autopsy paid for by his second wife, Suzanne Hopkins, who contended Hopkins had been murdered. Last month's autopsy found nothing new to change the suicide verdict reached at an inquest in November, ; 1981. - .. ;' SOURCE Daily Hampshire Gazette CITY AND STATNorthamptonE " , MA 01060 DATE OF PUBL. "May 25, 1982 Agent Orange pamphlet has a softer tone _ _ _ ; WASHINGTON CAP)'£, -asking the government about vorangeused to get a pam listing toe diseases that have n -associated with exposure to dtoxta, a toxic contaminant in the Vietnam defoliant. ..'.-. ;„ The publication discussed reports Unking dioxin with a variety of .health disorders - headaches, livejr ,ana blood disorders, nerve damage ;«ancer. ••. ... , : \T*.' ;; Now veterans asking about Agent Orange get a pamphlet that says .worries about dioxin are only based on "a theory" it may have caused "delayed health effects." The publi- cation does not name any of them. - The Veterans Administration said in revising the pamphlet no effort was made to tone down what veter- ' Possible ___ _.wHvwiM v* cu^vuv "--^r ~ilKTj_ _ During the war, 8 percent of the land area of Vietnam was sprayed with the herbicide to destroy Viet Cong crops and uncover the jungle hiding places of communist troops. The spraying was baited after health questions were raised. ; "It's a different pamphlet done by different people and a different ad- ministration/' said Larry R. Moen, who runs the VA's public informs tion and education program on -He termed the old pamphlet "somewhat outdated." It bore a photograph of Max Cleland, the wounded Vietnam veteran who headed the VA m the Carter admin- istration. ?,;, ':•*.: - , ' Both the old and the new publica- tions assert that facts about possible health damage have not been estab- lished. •;• ,-'• : '; " '; . •• But the old one was more detailed about what is suspected. INDEPENDENT JOURNAL CITY AND STATE SAN RAFAEL, CA DATE OF PUBL. May 25, 1982 tone«-JWW*EJ?^T s down pamphlet ; : •-.^. .• ,-,•»>">,i ...:;:r-„•?;•"?..'...; >. •-;'. ^ -•>•'•• - . •• • •>'•-.^.ice^.^ .." --— WASHD4GTON CAP) - Veterans health disorders -.headaches, tiver r asking the government aTS&tt Agent and blood disorders, nerve damage, .Orange used to get a tttmpluec,. cancer. *-•-'',>•.«.. .-Vi••,«:• '_= .-.-,• iBting the diseases that have been Now veterans asking about Agent associated with exposure to dioxin, a Orange get a pamphlet that says 6 n Agent toxic contaminant in the v«gtnjn* worries about dioxin are only based •V* .- -•• --' . •:.,-. *fc^ " V. - defoliant ~•"•>••• •** ~~ • •' •- on "a theory" it may have caused |T The publication discussed reports "delayed health effects." The publi- linking dioxin with a variety of cation does not name any of them. > ••

t The Veterans Administration said hiding places of communist troops. m revising the pamphlet no effort The spraying was halted after Lt was made to tone down what veter- health questions were raised. ^ ' ans are told about the possible "It's a different pamphle^done by health effects of Agent Orange. different people and a different ad- During the war, 8 percent of the ministration," said Larry R. Moen, land area of Vietnam was sprayed who runs the VA's public informa- with the herbicide to destroy Viet tion and education program on Cong crops and uncover the jungle Agent Orange.

Said the old, orange-colored, pam- function and nerve damage have phlet: "We do know oat humans been reported ... Some reports have who have been exposed to dioxin suggested that people exposed to during industrial accidents have de- dioxin have a higher incidence of veloped a specific skin condition some forms of cancer. There are known as chloracne. , also reports that dioxin can cause ••• -•%*.-.. • - ' • enlargement of the liver and a • "In addition, headaches, blood dis- decrease in the speed of transmit orders, nausea, alterations in liver sion of nerve impulses."- ~ ' SOURCE THE CHATTANOOGA TIMES CITY AND STATE Chattanooga, Tennessee

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ByMtkeFeinsUher "Daring W78, a theory was publicized tecl?cp08ed to *** Grange to that the veterans exposed to Agent Or- WASHINGTON — The Veterans Ad- *«n. They are distributed in VA re- ange when it was used in Vietnam be- ministration has scaled back the infor- Offices and hi response to inqtnV tween 1965 and 1971 might be subject to mation it gives inquiring veterans about delayed health effects from the expo- Agent Orange, dropping specific men- .The new pamphlet is printed with a sure. tion of the diseases for which contact blue cover. The old one was orange. . "The theory was based on the fact with the defoliant is a suspected cause. ' The old pamphlet took the form of a that one of the chemicals, 2,4,5-T, con- A new pamphlet names no diseases »«sa«e from Max Cleland, a wounded tained minute traces of a toxic chem- and says veterans' concerns spring from vietnarn veteran who headed the VA to ical, dioxin (TCDD) which contaminated "a theory" that dioxin, a toxic contami- the herbicide during the manufacturing nant in the herbicide, may have caused process. The contaminant dioxin is of "delayed health effects." ' That publication noted that dioxin has concerb because animal studies have The pamphlet replaces one which lays •22 ««*•« miscarriages and birth shown it to be toxic to certain species. out the ailments that have been suspect- • been established between Agent Orange , orders, nausea, alterations in liver func- and any disorder except chloracne, a se- ' Moen said no effort was made, in re- tion and nerve damage have been re- vising the pamphlet, to tone it down. He _«•.. i.»t ~~ . -_VM •• .-;;•- ^ . • vere skin rash. - • . said no diseases are named because the ."Some reports have suggested that new version is in larger type and there people exposed to dioxin have a higher was less room for details! . -\\ incidence of some forms of. cancer. ; But he said further information Will" There are also reports that dioxin can be provided in forthcoming publications cause enlargement of the liver and a de- for veterans — a question and' answer crease in the speed of transmission of^ sheet and a pamphlet detailing research i nerve impulses." ; s # \ efforts.""' • i*. Vi ;' \ That information is dropped from the In addition, the VA has issued a flier " new publication. In its place, under the telling about medical treatment avail- heading. "Why People Are Concerned," ; ""' to veterans'who believe they may -• •^ *1tSM** ^mfmtr»m%K "Ji/L • %'• --v*:- *. *J"-** •• -•*»'' ' --* • "' Milwaukee JOURNAL Milwaukee, Wisconsin

May 26, 1982 r^uices information

„. ;e dangers Wtthingtoa, DkC/^AF— The The old publication noted that Veterans Administration has scaled dioxi—n had caused cancer, miscar- back the information it fives inquir- riages and birth defects in laboratory ing veterans about Ageni Orange, animals and added: dropping specific mention of-the dis- "We do know that humans who eases for which contact with the de- have been exposed to dioxin during folianf is a suspected causes * '"., industrial accidents have developed a A new pamphlet names no diseases skin condition known as chloracne and smys veterans' concerns spring which closely resembles the common from '.'a theory" that dioxin, a toxic forms of acne. In addition, head- colntaminant in the herbicide, may aches, blood disorders, nausea, alter- have caused delayed health effects. ations in liver function and nerve Tie pamphlet replaces one which damage have been reported. lays out the ailments that have been Some 0 8 hay suspecte—^ d as, .,^havinIUBg bee„„,„n causecause,d, obyv " "P " e suggested that dioxin - difficulti^ that rSgeTrom Wffxpose? to ^^ tav» a hi*h" headaches to cancer. er incidence of some forms of cancer. "It'Itss a different pamphlet done bbyv e *""? a*° reports that dioxin »» differen*,**- t. peopl.e u an i*iupnid a differen« oonte adoy- cause enlargement of the liver and a ministration," said Larry R. Moen of decrease in the speed of transmission the VA's Office of Public and Con- of nerve Impulses." - sumer Affairs, in response to ques- That information is dropped from oonii the new publication. In its place Moen said do effort was made in under the heading, "Why People Are revising the pamphlet to tone it Concerned," it says: dow«.. He said no diseases were "During 1978, a theory was publi- named because the new version was cized that the veterans exposed to In larger type and there was less Agent Orange when it was used in room for details. Vietnam between 1965 and 1971 ; JBut he said further information might be subject to delayed health w*jld be jfwovided fat forthcoming effects from the exposure. publications — a question and an* "The theory was based on the fact swer sheet and a pamphlet detailing that one of the chemicals, 2,4,5-T, research efforts. * contained minute traces of a toxic In addition, the VA has issued a chemical, dioxin (TCDD),, which con- flyer telling about medical treatment taminated the herbicide during the available to veterans who believe manufacturing process. The contami- that they may have been exposed to nant dioxin is of concern because Agent Orange, in Vietnam. They are animal studies have shown it to be .distributed in VA regional offices. toxic ,to certain species." TEXAS PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU DALLAS Ettabtithed 1910

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\ V;A ; M > j. .' 1$T~ "l~r~ .i Agent£ ^™^^.. «:_• t- - Orang* ' ' ' ^m^r e,- ' -*'-*informatio. ^ !•-• '«..-*' -- -• '•• *•*--•.:; .* _• , •• ; -.rf ,. n I WASHINGTON (AP) — The Veterans Administration • different administration." said Larry R. Moen of the response to inquiries. \ ••' " ~ '•• j has scaled back tfaa arformation it gives inquiring vete- VA's Office of Public and Consumer Affairs, in response * nun about Ageqt Orange, dropping specific mention of The new pamphlet is printed with a blue cover. The oW rj 1 to questions. one '-• i/ > . | the disease* for vJUeaontact with the defoliant is a Moen said no effort was made, in revising the pam- * suspected cause. '•-•>.';;-^ ., .„ -.•••"••'<. phlet, to tone it down. He said no diseases are named becauM the new version is in larger type and there w 8 concerns spring tram "a theory" that dteto, a tadc leas room for details. But be said further information will be provided in ad health *ffcctt.*?. forthcoming publications for veterans — a question and answer sheet and a pamphlet detailing research efforts. that have been suspected as bean cawed by In addition, the VA has issued a flyer telling about " ' i-di«cultisatbatranf s medical treatment available to, veterans who believe V;:MV" they may have been exposed to Agent Orange in Viet- "»'«• •: -,». . ••--'» T*fc| nam. They are distributed in VA regional offices and in SOURCE THE FLORIDA TIMES UNION

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DATE OF PUBL. May 26, 1982 VA limits mention VA's document drops of herbicide .effects Orange details ',*' i f "' i (Frwn Page A-l) : Agent Orange when it was used in -WASHINGTON spected as having been caused by ing research efforts. • birth defects in laboratory animals. oratory animals." • * • •» ,' ; dtoxto -difficulties that range torn In addition, the V A has issued a fly- "We do know that humans who No one knows how many GIs were ; K « 'headaches to cancer». t _ . exposed to Agent Orange from 1982 to ' have been exposed to dioxin during 1971, when 12 million gallons were , *««:*»; It> a different pamphlet done by / (See VA'S DOCUMENT, Page A-2) industrial accidents have developed a sprayed to strip Jungle cever conceal- specific skin condition known as ing Communist, troops. .chloracne which closely resembles An estimated' 84,000 Vietnam veter- the common forms of acne," the old ans have taken a special medical ex- pamphlet said. "In addition, head- amination to see whether they suffer aches, blood disorders, nausea, alter- from effects of exposure. •., • k* ations in liver function and nerve- The VA's position is that no Unk has 1 damage have been reported." been estabbshed between Agent Or-' i It also mentioned that cases of can-• ftnge and any disorder except §, •cer had been reported. chloracne, but that research is need- That information is not in the new< ed to establish definitively whether a publication. Instead, it says: link exists. No claims for disability v • "During 1978, a theory was publi- compensation based, on exposure to • \ cized that the veterans exposed to Agent Orange have been honored. .«! •* *-.*•

'It's a different pamphletdotie by dif- -have been exposed to Agent Orange in condition known an cUoracne which ferent people and a different adminis-' "Vietnam. They are distributed in VA re- closely resembles the common forms of "WASHINGTON —The Veterans tration,"saidLarryR. Moenof the VA's1i gional offices and in response to inqui- acne. In addition, headaches, blood dis- ministration has scaled back the infold Office at Public and Consumer Affairs, ...ries. , ; orders, nausea, alterations in liver func- mitionit gives inquiring veterans aboni in response to question*.P " . • The new pamphlet is printed with a tion and nerve damage bava been re- 1 Agent Orange, dropping specific men- Moen said no effort was made, lin^^^blue cover. The oh) one was orange. ported... •-..,;: "' • * tion of the* diseases for which contact Vising the pamphlet, to tone itdowit He The old pamphlet took the form of a ; "Some reports have suggested that with the defoliant is a suspected cause. - said no dinases are named because the message from Max Cteland, a wounded people exposed to dioxin have a higher [ -A'uew pamphlet names"W diseases new version it in larger type and .there Vietnam veteran who headed the VA in '• incidence of some forms of cancer. i assays Veterans' concerns spring from was less room foi*details. ~\ -the Carter Administration. It carried There are also reports that dioxin cap ,«*ihewy"'that dioxin, a toxic contami-i But he said further information will Cleland's picture." , j f cause enlargement of the liver and a do- I flaht In thi herbicide, may nave (paused be provided to forthcoming publications That publication noted that dioxin has ' crea* » »•» spee•peed« of transmission pf^ for veterans — a question and answer caused cancels miscarriages and birth I .nerve impulses." " 'the pamphlet replaces one'which toy* sheet and ajtamphlet detailing research defects in laboratory animate and add-' A That information is dropped from the ! oot the-ailinenti that have been suspect " ' ' \e4 •• - •:: -;-v i'f V- -,.- TT new,publication. In its place, under the f eid as having been caused by dioxin ->. addition, the VA has |ssaed a flier . "We do know that humans who have .beading, "Why People Are Concerned." \ difficulties that range from headaches felling about, medical treatment • been exposed to dioxin during industrial "Itsays:. ,-.~i < • \ 1 - • " ' '--' Tw».' .-tvi; a-iiV'.r.'S u jble to t have developed a specific skbi "During .1978, a theory was publicized^ ...fl-«:.•. •-ti'WiV-tff ' that the veterans exposed to Agent Or- ange when it was used in Vietnam be- tween 1965 and 1971 might be subject to' delayed health effects from the expo- sure, i "The theory was based on the fact . ithat one of the chemicals, 2,4,5-T, con- tained minute traces of a toxic cbenv - ical, dioxin (TCDD) which contaminated the herbicide during the manufacturing *. process. The contaminant dioxin is of THE CHATTANOOGA TIMES concern because animal studies have CITY AND STATE | shown it to be toxic tocertai n species. Chattanooga TN \ Like other,toxi csubstances , dioxin has DATE OF PUBL. produced a number of serious conditions "among laboratory animals." May 26, 1982 An estimated 84,000 American Viet- nam veterans have sought and taken a special medical exam at VA hospitals to see if they suffer from effects of expo- .sure. . ( The VA's position is that no link IMS. (Fold up here) ; been established between Agent Orange and any disorder except chloracne, a se- 06-4585 NEWS CLIP iDENTIFICATION vere skin rash. '".,,,.,:• . . . . Ne* — ItAV O e *"' » 0 198?

•ent Orange project extended for veterans *m Namm Veterans-iVeterans in **«»/«>service. i-n- • t«-Vietv «-—'»Nam,"• , Maine are urged to take ad- Governor Joseph E. Bren- Viet Nam veterans to ob- minimize the. threat of vantage of the extended tain Agent Orange ex- Agent Orange, and the best nan said recently. aminations." program for Agent Orange The committee, compris- way to do that is for screening examinations. ed of representatives from The examinations in- veterans to undergo ex- - "An additional $8,000 has the state of Maine, clude complete physical amination," the governor ' been made available Veterans Administration examinations and said,. through legislation I 'officials and members of laboratory tests. The recently signed for the veterans service organiza- screening is part of the Maine Agent Orange Infor- tions, is credited by Com- Veterans Administration's mation Committee to con- missioner Michael Petit of Agency Orange Registry to tinue efforts to reach ap- the Maine Department of establish a data base for proximately 15,000 Human Services as treatment and research on veterans who may have the effects of the chemical. been exposed to the Agent "number one in the nation "Maine has been a leader Orange defoliant during in terms of providing infor- - in responding to the Agent mation and encouraging . Orange challenge. The in- | itiative shown here to sup- port our veterans is '.sincere. We want eft.

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,^m&:^\.;-._., :out'H"J"^-' « m•: *_"•.-. j Orange of the Veterans Ensemble into doubt, two members of Congress s— ^._^ . -. ytfrfaap legation that would re- sU^ affirm the spedaLposltion the orgap- iffiber delegation win tistt fife^ tzations have enjoyed, w *,> this week to a second at- lawyer Leslie Platt,~wno served as by Vietnam veterans to learn, staff director, of the, government's Companion bills offered to the Sen- fata «f missing AHMfrtcaa ser- tateragency taek force on Agent Or- ate and House by Sen. Jim Sasser, D- Jkemen and dtecuas the ejects o*' ange during the Carter Administra- Tenn^ aad Rep. Robert A. Roe, D- Xgent Orange oa those eijwsed tion; Lynda. Van, DeVanter, a Qnt NJt, would effectively undo a March fee defoliant •- .'.,vv • , '- *"' lieutenant and aurse ,to Vietnam to rullag by Uw U5, Court ; '-..' : lx!.',,,-*r during W» service as a medical In thai decision,we court found no **—„.-.>.<.u.^,,^ .^^..-,^fct^^ fcedaHftla. Vietnam:to 1869-70 atid ;ia»ar'congressional intent for the to the" second sponsored by', i,s chairman of the New Vorl; Siafe? unique, longtime exemption that aam Veterans o*f America CouncUoIWA. 'Veterans groups have enjoyed from „_.... an organization ef ;the law that denies tax-exempt status servicemen. The first occurred _ other action related to Agent 0»v to organizations that engage to tobby- December, the visit was arranged tinge, tee Veterans Administration last fan in visits to Vietnamese Offl- (VA) has scaled back toe tofbrma- otels to London and at the United jttonlt gives Inquiring veterans about Nations by Robert Mulier, founder of Agent Orange, dropping specific WA and a former marine Heutenan,t mention. o( the diseases for which paralyted from the waist town to coatact wft% the defoliant is a sua- 1969 when a bullet severed his spinal no diseases Television newsman Mike Wallace 'and says veterans' concerns spring and a.crew from the CBS program, from "a theory" that dioxin, a toxic "60 Mtoutes," wW' accon^any the colntamtoant to the herbicide, may : 1 have caused "delayed health ef- £"j&'ff;i:'"S* - '-fn - >5V- y *'• ":•••; '.<•„• -• v,,;-'» .-.. . man ahd director of WA's Washing- "Ifs, a 'different pamphlet done by ton office, said the group planned tb different people and a different ad- lay before Vietnamese bffldala >'.. ministration," said Larry Moen of 3 0 proposal allowing American and , the VA's Office of !Public and Con- Vietnamese scientists to work togeth- sumer Affairs, :v ] .*.•'•v • ; -'',•; er to Vietnam studying the health of . r • •:',"'"''' v i.v ' t ••-'? •='•' ?, "' '-.-' people exposed to Agent Orange, a'' Moen satd no effort' was made, to herbicide containing the toxic' revising the pamphlet, to tone it H 3 00 0) m pd 3 down. He said no.diseases are to M n> named because the new version is to w (u ; the U.S. government to tavestiattog larger type and there was less room 3 '. whether dioxin 'damaged the health for details. But he said further Infor- H« a o of CIs who entered sprayed areas,' mation will be provided to forthcom- 3 w H Many veterans attribute adverse ing publications for veterans — a 3 health conditions to exposure. question-attd-answer sheet and a pamphlet detailing research efforts.. About 8 percent of the land area of South Vietnam was sprayed by U.S. Also yesterday, nearly two months forces'during the war to an attempt after a federal court cast the tax- to. destroy Viet Cong crops and to exempt status of veterans group* reveal Communist hiding places to ~ the jungles. - " ":~s- "- ; r •

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WASHINGTON (AP) dioxin has caused cancer, mis- Veterans Administration has carriages and birth defects in Veteranshead scaled back the informaUoo it laboratory animate and added: gives inquiring veterans about :>"We do know that humans who Agent Orange, dropping specific, have been exposed to diozin dur- for Vietnam mention of the. diseases for ing industrial accidents have de- which contact with the defoliant, veloped a specific skin condition WASHINGTON (AP) - A nine-mem- is a suspected cause. " -- • known as chloracne which close- ber delegation will visit Vietnam this, ;A, new pamphlet names no ly resembles the common forms week in a second attempt by Vietnam diseases and says veterans' con- of acne. In addition, headaches, War veterans to learn the fate of cerns spring from "a theory" blood disorders, nausea, alter- missing American servicemen and dis- that dioxin, a toxic cointaminant ations in liver function and nerve cuss the effects of Agent,Orange, on in the herbicide, may have damage have been reported ... those exposed to the defoliant ^,'vK^ caused "delayed health effects." "Some reports have suggested New York theatrical producer Joseph; , The pamphlet replaces one that people exposed to dioxin Papp, founder, producer and director' which lays put the ailments that have a higher incidence of some of the New York Shakespeare Festival, have been suspected as having forms of cancer. There are also is a member of the delegation. ;-: ^;,, been caused by dioxin — dif- reports that dioxin can cause The group, which includes a winner ficulties that range from head- enlargement of the liver and a of the congressional medal of honor, aches to cancer. decrease in the speed of trans- planned to leave Tuesday night from -v "It's a different pamphlet done mission of nerve impulses." New York's Kennedy International Air-: by different people and a dif- That information is dropped port for Frankfurt on the first leg of a ferent administration," said from the new publication. In its trip that win bring them to Hanoi on Larry R. Moen of the VA's Of- place, under the heading, "Why Friday. The visit to Vietnam is to last fice of Public and Consumer People Are Concerned," it says: a week and to include visits to both Affairs, hi response to questions. "During 1978, a theory was Hanoi and Ho Chi Minn City, formerly Moen said no effort was made, publicized that the veterans ex- Saigon. in revising the pamphlet, to tone posed to Agent Orange when it The visit is the second sponsored by it down. He said no diseases are was used in Vietnam between Vietnam Veterans of America, an or- named because the new version 1965 and 1971 might be subject to ganization of former servicemen. The Is in larger type and there was delayed health effects from the first occurred in December. It was less room for details. exposure. quietly arranged last fall in visits to But he said further informa- "The theory was based on the Vietnamese officials in London and at tion will be provided in forth- fact that one of the chemicals, the United Nations by Robert Muller, ; coming publications for veterans 2,4,5-T, contained minute traces founder of WA and a former Marine — a question and answer sheet of a toxic chemical, dioxin lieutenant paralyzed from the waist and a pamphlet detailing re- (TCDD) which contaminated the down in 1969 when a bullet severed his search efforts. •* ' - ;. ; herbicide during the manufac- spinal cord. -.••.;.-••?- :."?;:-.K---/-. ; In addition, the VA has issued turing process. The contaminant a flyer telling about medical dioxin is of concern because John TerzanoJ a former Navy treatment available to veterans animal studies have shown it to seaman and director of WA's Wash- who believe they may have been be toxic to certain species. Like ington office, said the group planned to ' exposed to Agent Orange hi Viet- other toxic substances1, dioxin lay before Vietnamese officials a pro- nam. They are distributed in VA has produced a number of seri- posal allowing American and Vietnam- regional offices and in response ous conditions among laboratory ese scientists to work together hi Viet- ,to Inquiries. J animals." nam studying the health of people ..The new pamphlet is printed Moen said not many copies of exposed to Agent Orange, a herbicide with: a blue cover. The old one the Cleland pamphlet were left containing the toxic dioxin.. , was orange. • , and those that remained were The U.S. government is investiating It took the form of a message taken from the racks. whether dioxin damaged die health of from Max Cleland, a wounded No one knows how many GIs GIs who entered sprayed areas. Many Vietnam veteran who headed the were exposed to Agent Orange veterans attribute adverse health con- VA in the Carter Administration. from 1962 to 1971, when 12 mil- ditions to exposure. r,-_ It carried Cleland's picture. lion gallons were sprayed to kill That publication noted that Viet Cong crops. ,,.-.,. WESTERN PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU BERTHOUD. COLO.

PUEBLO, COLORADO CHIEFTAIN MAY 2 6 1982 Famphle•^~^:cJ?^.i^.*»t«^n^^»^t tells;^^.f-^^ less' * sf, . J,ni* v"r-it.S--:'rf!;? -'~ ••-;•••••••.'• • about Agent "WASHINGTON (AP) -The Veterans Ad- ministration has scaled back the information it •give! inquiring veterans about Agent Orange, dropping specific mention of the diseases for which contact with the defoliant is a suspected cause. .-. •*-'¥., :.r--.,. • -.»?. •-•':. •• • A new pamphlet names no diseases and says veterans' concerns spring from "a theory" that dioxin, a toxic cointaminant hi the herbicide, may have caused "delayed health effects." * Hie pamphlet replaces one which lays out the 'ailments that have been suspected as having been caused by dioxin — difficulties that range from headaches to cancer. .• .. "It's a different pamphlet done by different people and a different administration," said ' Larry R; If oen of the VA's Office o;f Public and * Consumer Affairs. •. , -. •<:•- •v - Hie VA also has issued a flyer telling about medical treatment available to veterans who believe they may have been exposed to Agent Orange to Vietnam. They are distributed in VA regional offices and in response to 'inquiries. No one knows how many GIs were exposed to Agent Orange from 1962 to 1971, when 12 million gallons were sprayed to kill Viet Cong crops and strip away Jungle cover concealing com- munist troops. An estimated 8 percent of the land area of South Vietnam was sprayed. The operation stopped when there were reports of high numbers of miscarriages among rural Vietnamese women. estimated 84,000 American Vietnam an* have sought and taken a- special ical exam at VA hospitals to see if they suf- effects of exposure.' '-. $ ' &•.. * ' :- ;--» ' • - CITY AND STATE

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cancer, defectemlaboi'atory But he said further information will be provided in forth- "Wedo Knowthat humani whohavebeen A flew pamphlet names no diseases and says veterans' '*; 'coming publications for veterans — a question and answer during'industrial jteddenta have dw « specific skio/j • , concerns spring from "a theory" that dioxin, a toxic cointa- j'$| ; sheet and a pamphlet detailing research efforts. :,. , - ; '"• condition known as chloracne which resembles the' M-Njnuiarit to the herbicide, may have caused "delayed health % > • In addition, the VA has issued a flyer telling about medfcal .common forms,of acnef in addition, faeadi blood, ^ Mfects," '•/.- .;.•'•.'-• -;; ' " '.'•- , : , V,;'^' ' treatment available to veterans who believe they may have ders, nausea, alte>atii : ; The pamphlet replacesftnewnic h lays out the ailments that 4^f been exposed toAgent Orange hi Vietnam. They are distribut- ;> ha ye been *.'^have been suspected as having been caused by dioxin — ./' ed in VA regional off ices and in response to inqulfies, ''" dttficultieB that rangt from headaches to cancer. -, '''•' ' The new pamphlet is printed with a blue cover.The "It's a different pamphlet done by different people and a "' was orange. some fonu aTcaacer. There are ;0ftemit admtaistratfcm," said Larry R. Moen of the VA's Ittook^fomolaliiessageiEromMaxClelailiiwou^ nerve Office of Public and Consumer Affairs, in response to , Vietnam veteran who headed the VA in the Carter administra- questions. • .. ; ,.- ..•-.- -,..;.- • • . ' ' SOURCE Lubt Jc Avalanche Journal Lubbtf Texas DATE OF PUBI_. Wednesday morning, May 26, 1982 presidaCTRFSLaserpiium/r,• •Li., .; -.. .'„.-.. : • * vv''^'./"">*

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-*:TS- biood~disorderS, nausea, alterations in ans Administration has scaled back the liver function and nerve damage have Information it gives inquiring veterans been reported.., *. " ; about Agent Orange, dropping specific "Some reports have suggested that mention of the diseases for which cMP- people exposed to dioxin have a higher tact with the defoliant is a suspected incidence of some forms of cancer. cause. .;* i-'-ir- - -• '-':•'•.. .• There are also reports that dioxin can , A new pamphlet names no diseases cause enlargement of the liver and a and says veterans' concerns spring decrease in the speed of transmission from "a theory" that <.- . mals," • : In addition, the, VA has issued a Moen said not many copies of the i flyer telling about medical treatment Cleland pamphlet were left and those I available to veterans who believe they that remained were taken from the ' may have been exposed to Agent Or- racks. -•- . ! ange in Vietnam. They are distributed " No one knows how many GIs were , in VA regional offices and in response exposed to Agent Orange from 1962 to 1 to inquiries. ' '•": ^> 1971, when 12 million gallons were i The new pamphlet is printed with a sprayed to kill Viet Cong crops and blue cover. The old one was orange. i strip away jungle cover concealing It took the form of a message from communist troops. An estimated 8 per- Max Cleland, a wounded Vietnam ve- cent of the land area of South.Vietnam teran who headed the VA in the Carter was sprayed. The operation stopped Administration. It carried Cleland's when there were reports of high num- picture. • :•- - -. ; , • bers of miscarriages among rural Viet- < That publication noted that dioxin namese women. -; -- , has caused cancer, miscarriages and An estimated 84,000 American Viet > birth defects in laboratory animals and . nam veterans have sought and taken a * added' '• . i' ' "£'J special medical exam at VA hospitals j •. "We do know that humans whdliavfe -to see if they suffer from effects of ex- > been exposed to dioxin during industrn' ' posure. t. • .. '• : .•' ; al accidents have developed a specific '--'• .. The VA's position Is that no link has ! skin condition, known as chloracne been established between .Agent Or- • which:closely resembles the common 4 ange and any disorder except chlor- je, aTsevere skin rash,;;. \-, , forms of acneJ In addition, headaches, ... ssc -> fcfcJ* »* jt»-» .--•,.-.•. SOURCE The Dallas Morning News CITDallasY AND STAT, TexaE s

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Wednesday, May 26, 1982

*«"JB . *«*W**l%!f J^ v i ent •''•-^•••S* ***ft" ^V«4M*.'••"»,*• M If.- •- . ••-. .' W-- -t-'n'-tn* r*Uiy" . pi< . The pamphi*t>ep1ac«Soon« that will' be provided in forthcoming orange, (-/ ,_I ;,..«, ^..,-, ,^-'- Mdessribes thYaJlments •* ranging' publications for veterans—a quea- ": ,The old publication also noted ~~ headaches to cancer — in tion-and-answer sheet and a pap^ that dioxinhas caused cancer, mis-, 4S™**£*f«^^ ^^data^researche^ ^carriages; and birth defects in labo- ratory animals and added: "We do 4i^taW-w**'hlr e to veterans who believe exposed to dioxin during indus- rBUUV AK^M *mm** KAWA KAAM *Hff*r*xntA t»oA trial accidents have developed a .known as ,Motn Stfd no effort was jnade to' closely resembles * wBthepamphletHesaidno disoiMe are named bwaose the ieg^ , tii f^ ..,.„,.. Wl,v , v nausea, alterations in liver func- ittSMfiSSSE^"' • th.'... p*,h« i *H»*,,,tion and nerve jdamagftljave beej^jj o with a blue cover,. The $W one was,, reported."""^" " ' " 'iJHO'Siivi' J-Iii-S£j^-".<"1"* --•>••'"- , •. • -,r; OURl, ^k For^North Star-Telegram CITForY ANtD STATWorthE , Texas

DATE OF PUBU. . 26, 1982 * ii*MH2ffOitt WORTH STAR •^*JT^^*^~^*^i*^^^.'S7f^i™*fc~"ri^»'w*»"»*'lv»*-'^ -.- P ''Jm^i1'*"' •">•,<•• Of.:. •*.,!;•? t;--., I w AVTOnGS QOWTV ^at infwmatibnjs dropped from the new £*^!^*ti!^^~-^£!!^. ^ under the heading, 4v;^^.ts*lf4^4-, rr:-^» H. ' Vc^*IW £'\ "why People Are Concerned," it says: • *- — - • i|f*||*£ vi..^?^ e when it was h -4i . »;; ' ; / wsedmVi«uianibetweenl965andl9?lmightbe ^v.*^>j.«^X;^^.tri,.; ;.^^Wecta ^ f t w ii-/^i«i^i^s • ^ «-:^:r^:*:^;-!'.::f ;/r^r .^-•'••••• -. • -' . •.»«•" ««*«• 3 •" *K* uao^u ott the fact that on' e o'f thechemHJals.aOTvCtjritaihed minute traces of • «• Afuwnrtvi-v im-j-r ine veieransAonums-1 * toxic chemical, dioxin (TCDD) which contami- nation has scaled back the informationlt gives nated the herbicfde during the manufacturing jreteranswhoirMjuireabout Agent Orange, drop-! prpce5s.Thecontamirianttfioxiri is of concern ping specific mention of the diseases the defoli- because animal studies have shown itto be toxic 4n r t is suspected, of causing^. ,;..,,±,.;... •:.-. ;. ,-» ^ Ufcceitairi species. Like other toxic substances, ; A. aewpainphlet names rio'diseases and says fdfoxin .has produced a number of serious condi- veterans'v«oncerns spring fram-,"* theory" that. =ions among .laborstory an]m«te"^4.:r;-;.:r ; >.', dioxin, ito^ccbntamipant in the he rbjcide.jnay. Moen saia not many Copies of theCleland parn ^ecaus^.^delayed health effects.%,-; s vi PHlet art lef^antf those that remain were taken . The pamphlet replay one tl^t Uys out the from thejra^ks, ;; .1 ! >C ... :^ , ailments •fhat have been suspected as having NooiW;ki»w$;howinahyGIsMre>xpbsedto been caused by dioxin — difficulties Ihat range Agent Orange front 1962 to 1971, when 12million from headaches to cancer. ^ v ^w,. ?.-,••.)•- gallons wertt sprayed to kill VietCong crops and < "H's afUffereirt.fiamphlet ^ troops. An §stimateii 8 percent of thelandarea of ry |L Moen of the.VA's Office of Public and Sou* VJetftatqv^as sprayed; Thevoperation Consumer Affairs, in response to questions. stopped when there were reports of high num- Moen safd no effort was made, in revising the **K of miscarFiages among rural -Vietnamese pamphlet, to tone it down. He said no diseases are women. ,.| V"'-^ - . vv ,.'/. » named because the new version is in larger type An estimated S4.WO American Vietnam veter- and there was less room for details. «ns have &*ught and taken a special medical But he said further information will be provid- exam at VA hospitals to see if they suffer from ed in forthcoming publications for veterans—a effects of exposure. *iv ; - i question and answer sheet and a pamphlet detail- Th* vA's position is that no link has been ing research efforts. ;•; . , -. - '.. established between Agent Orange and any dis- !n addition; the VA has issued a flyer telling orderexceptchloracne,butresearchisneededto about medicial treatment available to veterans establish whether a link exists. No claims for who believe they may have been exposed to disability tompensation based on exposure to Agent Orange hi Vietnam. They are distributed Agent Orange Jhave been honored. : in V A regional off ices and in response to mquir- -,'*•*&•« -^ ..'^:, - /J,.,•;>„.. ,.i,.. les.''^-.\., :•: ?viv;..; •:•.<. ,/v>>.i-"v^: .r.;.-Vv ? <• The newpaitnplidiBt is prnri^vith arWuecover. The old otoewas orange, -i^il.ii,,^:,;, . . U took.the .form of i:nie^sage frorii Max CVeland, A wounded Vietnam veteran who head- ed the VA in the Carter administration. It carried Cleland'spicture."-:..:, i r;,,v That puWication noted that dioxin has caused cancer, miscarriages and birth defects in labora- toty animafcand added: ^ >;;v :v :"V^e do .know that humans who have been exposed to| dioxin during industrial accidents .have developed a specific skin condition known as chloracoe which closely resembles the com- ; niqa forjn»pfactje,lnadditipn,headache8, blood disorders, nausea, alterations in liver, function and nerve damage have been reported i.. : v "Some reports have suggested that people ex* posed to dioxin have a higher incidence of some forms of cancer. There are also reports that diox- ' m can cause enlargement of the liver and a de- crease in the speed of transmission of. nerve impulses."*"••->•*^ i _ ..- J»CE Mgytnn Republican CITY AND STATE Marion, IL DATE OF PUBL. May 26. 1982

Iffe ' ok_o^'U*^MW»-»W ^VIllWIIb* •(fOtei"iKfJuii. . r C : !: M «?• Orang•2^^" ' *^'"" * ' ^^"^Fe- - Set 7 News Service . jjfopriat* legislation. .- The study commission is made up of SPRINGFIELD • The first public four members of the Senate, four ir ineeting of the Illinois Agent-Orange members of the minois House, and five r Study Commission has been set for 6 public members who must include m. in the state capital on June 7. three Vietnam-era veterans and two The session win be the first of a , who have "experience in or extensive gJMries of five to be held statewide, with knowledge of military service." future public hearings planned for Other members include George R. Chicago, Carbondak, Bock Island- Cramer of Woodridge, Philip H. Vision Moline, and Rockford. - .r of Deerfield, and Rep. Susan Deuchler, Veterans or other involved persons " R-Aurora..., ., ..- ,'.-'* V '.' .'.'• '' • wishing to testify have been requested Persons wishing to appear at the by the commission to provide 15' June 7 meeting in Springfield may written copies of tteir testimony at the register with the commission office by tune of jhe hearing, and were asked to at (217)782-5336, Berning said. contact' the commission offices * at Room 218 in the state capital to ^r^ster, ^,t- ,,,: ,, maj.be of any bi^o^ testimony wfll be to fiVe niinutes, to permit a maximum number of witnesses to .testify, according to Sen/Karl Berning, R-DeerBeld, chairman of ttie com- mission and chief sponsor of the legislation under which it was formed. ' Berning said the commission's chief purpose wffl be "gathering date and testimony to document that some of the citizens of Illinois who served in Vietnam may have been adversely affected by Agent Orange and other defoliants and that the federal government has not acted to assist them satisfactorOy." The commission will expire in August, 1983. Prior to that time it is to make a report to the state Legislature on its findings, and recommend ap- DATE OF PUBI_. May 26, 1982

old and the ae* atlong «wrt that . askin; ft- ig ".-(?- the . for',-i- -' *w >J [ ernment about, A^ent >tf about possible Orange used t« get a pam- have not bee phlet listing the diseases erione that have been associated But the old one was mort with exposure to dtoxih, » detafled about what is sns- toxic contaminant to the ^ ' Lof concern because anim- Vietnam defoliant. -«- *^;<^ Said the old, orangt- i studiea have shown ft to The publication discus- edored, pamphlet: ««We do t toxic to-certain species. •ed reports taking dtoxtiiil that humans who ,._^, other toxic fubst- with * variety of health dte i |$»vebeen exposed to dtadn |Anc«*, dtoxm has produced orders - headaches, liver V ^faring industrial acddenU " jl number of serious condi- and blood disorders, nerve., developed § specifle l;*iona among laboratory {fanflftg^ cancer. ?*.-'*;{?;•;']>j-Jl ' •"'-'.Now. veterans asking ah-;j .- Moen, in an interview, out Agent Orange get»"' condition known as said not many copies of the .pamphlet that says wOrrief, chloracne which cloaety re- orange pamphlet were left 'about dknda areody based Jlemblea the common forma rmained '' ' ' " on "a theory "It may have ,,-in addition, headaches, caused "delayed health . >''••"• - • " • • ": • "TV--' effect!/' The publication, blood disorders, nausea^ F were taken off the shelves. issued to toll about medical does not name any of them. ^ lOteratiotts in liver function I Jfet,*he said, the blue pam- treatment offered veterans The Veterans Adminis- ind nerve damage have f phtetwaB not intended to re- who believe they may have y,,.. — .*»n« r»- ;flac« the orange we. He been exposed to Agent tration said in revising the ^ ports havr e suggested that said the type is larger in the Orange in Vietnam. pamphlet no effort was | people exposed to dioxin blue pamphlet so there was A third, to come out next made to tone down what h^ve a hlgW incidence of not as much room for the month, will answer fre- veterans are told about the detail that the orange pam- quently asked questions, he possible health effects of phlet had. said, and another publica- Agent Orange. .. r .'•'. [jibme forms of cancer. Moen noted, too, that a tion is planned to describe During the war, 8 percent [There are alsorq^orts that second new pamphlet, with research under way or anti- of the land area of Vietnam dioxin can cause enlarge- cover, has been cipated. .. . •"• ' was sprayed with the herbi- 1ment of the liver and a de- cide to destroy Viet Cong It crease in the speed oYtrane- crops and uncover the jung- mlssiOB of jierve l» le hiding places of commun- iat troops. The spraying The new, blue-covered, was halted after health publication says: "During questions werf raised. '.''-< |}f78, a theory was publi- "It's a different pamphlet ijctadd" that veterans who done by different people exposed t a^ a different administra* tion," said Larry R. Moen, ;0rangei'might be subject who runs the yA]sj>ubBc in- it delayed health effects formation anTeducation /• from the program on Agent Orange. ' \ He termed the old pam- ;the fact that one of the ebe- phjet "somewhat but^ dated." It bore a photo4 pmuiute traces ofatoJdcche- graph of Max CWand, the wounded Vietnam veteran! fw^tch 'contaminated the who headed the VA in the Carter administration. , SOURCE The Philadelphia Inquirer CITY AND STATE Philadelphia, PA DATE OF PUBL. May 26, 1982

^T BT V _- l ! • . ; \:^. -i:.t .a,'v. *r*..$,.>.,< -. •,,..- . tively whether a link exists. No , i ' who runs the VA's public tntorma- "The theory was based on the fact clS for disability wmpensatton i ; Ul U»^« yiviH^M.r.n—:. . _ . *$ •'•'" ' £tloAi*»«l >#Laeattqn*, 8flftplBii-;«ll.^'|H>«r * one. oi flt*;titemte*lK : 244-T, based on exposure tp Agent Orange ''' * ^containe/wntaiaedd- minut«e eertou3 additions «^ .••tCBS-w-sunder way. The Air Forc* epf is^SvS studyinJg SttM«iw. STSSU* of 1.MO "OP*^ eld; pamphlet said. "We d&; nphlet had been is- Ranch Hand'* veterans who_were ^r^iiinans who'huye beeij^cOifd l treatment SSedlb» «P»y»n8 Agent Orang* : to 4tada rta ta4strial :fesued. teUlni|i • -•— •v» For 20 years or more, their health will be compared to the conditions of i^.WJSrfB&ffWjSJ vSwi^Sn^presumaWy were not aowsed! The VA to evaluating the • Sm5ed design ofa study to com- KS3qr«,000 servicemen 5S .re considered to have been exposed with two control groups oi - .£- -^ M^^K. . . . . ,...._' »--jr»r '"3

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MAY-26-82 remains issue An ex-marine whose death inspired a of Agent Orange, a chemical defoliant used in the hunger strike by Vietnam veterans has Vietnam War. He said the Veterans Administeai. .remained unburied for a year while his widow tton was indifferent to his claims. - ,'c sought money for a second autopsy. After his death, a group of Vietnam veterans: Suzanne Hopkins, widow, of James Roger staged a sit-in and hunger strike at the VA Hospi- Hopkins, said last week the second autopsy has fi- tal, demanding that the VA seriously investigate nally been scheduled. • • ~ .• • the effects of Agent Orange on soldiers. ' •'*•"• She believes her husband, who shot up a Veter- "I have a widow's peosion of $900 a month,11^ ans Administration Hopsital in 1981, was Mrs. Hopkins said, explaining why it took so Jong- murdered. A coroner'* jury ruled toe 32-year-old to get the second autopsy. ••'• '** committed suicide. ,' "I've gotten estimates of between $2,500 aft • She has refused to claim her husband's body, $5,000 for a private autopsy. That's more than *' Mrs. Hopkins said, "Because I wanted to make make to a year, and 1 have to buy my food and" sure when I got enough money for a second autop- clothes and take care of my stepson. •••-•.-'-"- '-•r r sy that they couldn't say I had tampered with the "I got die offer for an autopsy for only $800,1'" Jumped at it. But they waited for my check to^ Mrs. Hopkins said the Los Angeles County clear before they scheduled the autopsy." . " >iW: Coroner's Office agreed to repeat the autopsy and She believes her husband was knocked out with0 lexicological tests for $800. - •••• -4 <. some drug such as chloroform, and then injected" Hopkins drove a Jeep through the glass doors of with a drug that would till him. ' --"-i the Wadsworth Veterans Administration Hospital Mrs. Hopkins said she plans eventually to have-j in West Los Angeles In March 1981, then fired a her husband's body cremated and scatter his 1 semi-automiatic rifle into the lobby. No one was ashes in an Indian burial ground. ' ' 'I injured. ,..."...• While he was awaiting trial, he was found dead May 17 in his mobile home, with an open whiskey bottle and an empty pill container nearby. Hopkins had attributed his actions to the effects REVIEW JOURNAL CITY AND STATE LAS VEGAS, NV DATE OF PUBL. May 26, 1982

..... ^ .. ^ . t;Vbdt'the ubnents liuit h«v« been 1 'i!1-^ '.-» v .-4 ^ 7. ? , . • It took the form of a message from Max '' «d a* having "beea oiuaecl by ' nuormatioii will be . ^———~^ a— wounde ..,_._.dT Vietna. ,»„_m„ vetera. „„.n_ wh wo- ;>lifficulti« th«t raaie from i foi ,/headed the VA to the Carter Administra- heet lotion. It carried Cleland's picture, 3,1,. don^by'* nvimfinnfft^jk efforts. ':^ That publication noted that dioxm has Iphiit pele and* » different admiiustwi- , i VA hks issued a flyer caused cancer, miscarriages and birth de- said Larry R Mo« of the VA's ...... •*.-• .,• * ^ m laboratory animals and added: J Office rfPublfc and jio yeteraWi who believe they may have "~j*We do know that humans who have |>eeft;exposed,tp Agent Orange:in Viet-';, been exposed to dioxin during industrial Moea said no effoi^ wa« made,' in ;ham Theif are disilbutod jn VA regiotjjl ^ wcldents have developed a specific skin '.ing tt» pamphlet, to .tone H down. o^D^a^^,resp

DATE°FPUBMay 26. 1982

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: i 7chemical. One^day, die rtumbled across the word They.were angry that the government hadn't warned t' r ,.^ ^-» ''meaning monster maker. I remember looking at Kerry And'they wert angered again when the Veteran's 'and thinking 'monster maker' s : ... the bastards; " she Administration refused to concede Agent Orange might . • • • . •• * - be causing cancer and other illnesses in veterans and Unffl then the Long Island couple had accepted the birth defects in their children., ; ; -handicapa-of Kerry, their only child, as an act of God. ' ''' •• ~'~ •••••-••- •'••• -' -"-''^ • The VA has'declined to pay for related treatments. It ,- - "We weren't mad at all before Agent Orange,'*' Byan> was pot until 1979 that Congress mandated a study of 18,000 veterans to learn the possible ill effects of Agent «« -j/i "When we found out.. .it was like aU the scabs -.-^;-.r -;-. :.--••; •.-.•,.•••• .• •• 4rf the wound had been ripped off." t •••'j^^JL-^L^-^...-^ -

Jst-«ntborCliffdnJLindecker. , ^~. The heartache began Jan..23,1971, when Kerry wgg i with no rectum, an arm bent hark ayainart her ride a missing thumb and coo-

Those Were just the first of 22 birth defects doctors would discover, including duplicate rcproductJYe or- the Ryans welcomed then- child. "She enriches our lives every day," Mrs. Ryan says. HERALD CITV AND STATE LIVERMORE, CA DATE OF PUBL. May 26, 1982

ft .- •ty?.jt- &;. >* By Mike provided in forthcoming publications for vet erans — a question and answer "sheet and a > • WASHINGTON -The Veterans Adminia- pamphlet detailing research efforts. - ' : {ration has scaled back the* information ft , In addition, the VA has issued a flyer telling givu iiiquiring veterans about Agent Orange, about medical treatment available to veter- dropping specific mention of the disease! for ans who believe they may have been exposed which contact with the defoliant is a suspected to Agent Orange in Vietnam. They are dis- cause. : .*::*!:••,< ''••- .• -• •.•« -C'-^cf •;••••'. » tributed in VA regional offices and in response A new pamphlet names no diseases and says to inquiries. o% veterans' concerns spring from "a theory" The new pamphlet is printed with a blue that dioxin, a toxic cointaminant in tbe coyer. The old one was orange. ' herbicide, may have caused "delayed health effects."' s • ;. ;. - • **x *«.-..-. It took the form of a message from Max The pamphlet replaces one which lays out' Cleland, a wounded Vietnam veteran who the ailments that have been suspected as headed the VA in tbe Carter Administration. It having been caused by dioxin — difficulties carried Cleland's picture, . . that range from headaches to cancer. That publication noted that dioxin has "It's a different pamphlet done by different caused cancer, miscarriages and birth defects people and a different administration," said in laboratory animals and added: Larry R. Moen of the VA's Office of Public and "We do know that humans who have been Consumer Affairs, in response to questions. exposed to dioxin during industrial accidents Moen said no effort was made, in revising have developed^ a specific skin condition the pamphlet, to tone it down. He said no known as chloracne.which closely resembles diseases are named because the new version is tbe common forms of acne. In addition, head- in larger type and there was less room for aches, blood disorders, nausea, alterations in details. • .•• ;-.-*- ---; • •-?* -- ••,••• ••-«:.<• .•••••/•"• • •••< • liver function and nerve damage have been But ne said further information will be reported... '-•• . _

"Some reports have suggested that people exposed to dioxin have a higher incidence of ". some forms of cancer. There are also reports 7 that dioxin can cause enlargement of the liver " and a decrease in the speed of transmission of nerve impulses."' "-' • k- That information is dropped from the new > publication. In its place, under the heading, \ "Why People Are Concerned," it says: 1 "During 1978, a theory was publicized that the veterans exposed to Agent Orange when it was used in Vietnam between 1965 and 1971 migty be subject to delayed health effects from the exposure. ...;•"•* "The theory was based on the fact that one of the chemicals, 2,4,5-T, contained minute traces of a toxic chemical, dioxin (TCDD) which contaminated the herbicide during the manufacturing process. The contaminant dioxin is of concern because animal studies have shown it to be toxic to certain species. - Like other toxic substances, dioxin has pro- Fduced a number of serious conditions among laboratory animals." ; '• . , '• Moen said not many copies of the Cleland "'pamphlet were left and those that remained -were take•n from the racks-. - .•••'•-.^ • ' SOURCE TRI-V EY HERALD CITY AND STATE LIVERMORE, CA DATE OF PUBL. May 26, 1982 m m _v«crit$ies ft., if .--• eiit r By Mike F< provided in forthcoming publications for vet- L Associated Press teranrf- a question and answer sheet and a 5 --WASHINGTON ^- The Veterans Adminis- pamphlet detailing research efforts. tration has scaled back the information it > In addition, the VA has issued a flyer telling 1; gives inquiring veterans aboutsAgejtLOcaager about medical treatment available to veter- ' dropping specific mention of the diseases for an*•"s? whmuwo «cuevbelieve uwthey wamay navhave oeebeenn exposed -"which contact with the defoliant is a suspected tot« l *&*&A **&*** Orangf\»AK^eA iIMn . Vietnam»T1_J . TheMM _y arer dis-.. - -xause. •-;•' > -.-•- .-•>... ? ,i. -i. tributed in VA regional off ices and in response ;" A new pamphlet names no diseases and says' • *° inquiries. 3 Veterans' concerns spring from "a theory?ery ' -••••• Tn•«e «»«new» I«MUJMUCpamphleVt »is primeprinte*d with a blue that dioxin, a toxic cointaminant in the veover. The old one was orange. 'herbicideherbicide, mayy: have caused "delayed health ^' WK *«»*'«- "fon r-^'ln / * » -tffects.""- -<'->• •' ' •«?•>=».-;*• •••*•->* ^•s,v-'f' -" lWpWl...w - ^ ** ^ •• mess messaga e from Max ' The pamphlet replaces one which lays out ' the ailments that have been suspected as having been caused by dioxin — difficulties Ch2?.nd.(! 1***? '* that range from headaches to cancer. publication noted that dioxin has " . "It's a different pamphlet done by different • people and a different administration," said and added: Larry R. Moen of the VA's Office of Public and "W« do know that humans who have been Consumer Affairs, in response to questions. exposed to dioxin during industrial accidents Moen said no effort was made, in revising have developed a specific skin condition the pamphlet, to tone it down. He said no known as chloracne which closely resembles diseases are named because the hew version is the common forms of acne. In addition, head- in larger type and there was less room for aches, blood disorders, riausea, alterations in details. .-, . . ,.••.. ,:. ••.,;. v .,-,,.. „ -.,, liver function and nerve damage have been '•, But he said further informaUon will be reported.,. ;

"Some, reports have suggested that people exposed to dioxin have a higher incidence of some forms of cancer. There are also reports that dioxin can cause enlargement of the liver n«itdecreas e £ the speed of transmission of nerve impulses." • ->••>*• •: .. >^ .*• • 011 8 dri d fr m tt ; P«b«caUonnK/^Tlin In its place I ,W« under °the heading« ««W, Why People Are Concerned," H says- • Durin W78, a theory was publicised that ' wawas used in Vietnam between 1965 and 197"1 8Ubject to d la '££*«?from the• exposure. « .;,y«; ».-,.-„'- healt. /••h „effect ,- s \ Jl^^l was based on the fact that one ! of the chemicals, 2,4,5-Tv .contained minute £??? °* .* ^°xic <*««"cal. dioxin (TCDD) which contaminated the herbicide durine the manufacturing process. The contaminant dioxin is of concern because animal studies 11t o toxi ct o< rtail s LikSe othe ST**r toxic substances- H , dioxi* n> ha^-s pro- duced a number of serious conditions among laboratory animals,". . , , ,', •UUVUB ''• Moen said not many copies of the CTeland pamphlet were left and those that remained 'were taken from the racks. ' • SOURCE Pr THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN CITY AND STATE PUEBLO. COLORADO DATE OF PUBL. MAY 26, 1982

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Pamphlet tell sv lesv s > i-t -.1 '£j^j- ™* "-"-i.*'>'f i' Vr.-'V v' " i V ....'J"ii» » '/- - \J •- "t about Agent Orange WASHINGTON •£: The Veterans Ad., ministration has scaled back the information it gives inquiring veterans about Agent Orange, dropping specific mention of the diseases for which contact with the defoliant is a suspected cause. • •''-••;V.':.;. u. • • ••"•-..-.-.. A new pamphlet names no diseases and says 'veterans' concerns spring from "a theory'-' that dioxin, a toxic cointaminant in the herbicide, may have caused "delayed health effects." The pamphlet replaces one which lays out the ailments that have been suspected as having been caused by dioxin -*- difficulties that range from headaches to cancer. *,,-•' - • .- / "It's a different pamphlet done by different people and a different administration." said Larry R. Uoen of the VA's Office of Public and Consumer Affairs. ':; . >>•;. ' •. 'The VA also has Issued a flyer telling about medical treatment available to veterans who believe they may have been exposed to Agent , prange in Vietnam. They are distributed in VA i regional offices and in response to Inquiries. ' No one knows how many GIs were exposed to Agent Orange from 1962 to 1971, when 12 million gallons were sprayed to kill Viet Cong crops -.- and strip away jungle cover concealing com* v munist troops. An estimated 8 percent of the 1 land area of South Vietnam was sprayed. The operation stopped when there were reports of high numbers of miscarriages among rural ^Vietnames: e women. § An estimated 84,000 American Vietnam pretorans have sought and taken a special ^medical exam at VA hospitals to see if they suf- f<~. • — - _.£s!_.^._ —* ' . • BALTIMORE, MO

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^WASHINGTON (AP)-Veterans The .spraying was halted after health asking the government about Agent questions were raised: • Orange jised to get a pamphlet listing , "It's a different pamphlet done by .the diseases that have been ^associat- different people and a different ad- ed with exposure to dioxin, a toxic ministration," said Larry R. Moen, contaminant in the Vietnam defoli- who runs the. VA's public information ant. *'-V •••••.'?•« *•>•/,-*• v* and education program on Agent ; •£ The publication discussed reports Orange. '*•••••'.»; • ..'. linking dioxin with a variety of health He termed the old pamphlet disorders—headaches, liver and blood' "somewhat outdated." disorders, nerve damage, cancer. Both the old and the new publica- •t Now veterans asking about Agent tions assert that facts about possible Orange get a pamphlet that says health damage have not been estab- worries about dioxin are based only lished. But the pld one was. more de- o» "a theory" it may have caused tailed about what is suspected. "delayed health effects." The publica- tion does not name any of them. V Moen said the new blue pamphlet ' -. The Veterans Administration said was not intended to replace the or- in r revising the pamphlet no effort ange one. He said the type is larger in was made to tone down what veter- the blue; so there was not as much ans are told about the possible health room for the orange's detail . effects of Agent Orange ' Moen also noted a second new "During the war, 8 percent of the pamphlet, with a brown cover, has land area of Vietnam was sprayed been issued to tell about medical with the herbicide to destroy Viet treatment offered veterans who be- Gpng crops and uncover the jungle lieve they may have been exposed to hgding places of communist troops. Agent Orange in Vietnam. I

sou. TOP^K)pR\A WCAPITAL-JOURNAL CITY AND STATE TOPEKA, KANSAS DATE OF PUBL. 5/27/82

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can government film that was shown as part of the symposium Wednesday stat- •d that the use of Agent Orange conse- quently "probably saved thousands of lives." ' Agent Orange to a herbicide made up of equal parts of two chemicals re- forred to as 4,4>T and 1,4-D. A by- product of the manufacture of 2,4>T is TEXAS PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU DALLAS Established 1910

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WASHINGTON (AP) - The in revising the pamphlet, to tone Veterans Administration has it down. He said no diseases are scaled back the information it named because the new version ; gives inquiring veterans about is in larger type and there was Agent Orange, dropping specific less room for details. mention of the diseases for which But he said further information contact with the defoliant is a su- will be provided in forthcoming spected cause. publications for veterans. , A new pamphlet names no dis- In addition, the V A has issued a eases and says veterans' con- flyer telling about medical treat- cerns, spring from "a theory" ment available to veterans who that dioxin, a toxic contaminant believe they may have been ex- in the herbicide, may have posed to Agent Orange in Viet- caused "delayed health ef- oam. They are distributed in VA fects." regional offices and in response The pamphlet replaces one to inquiries. . 'that lays out the ailments that have been suspected as having The old publication noted that been caused by dioxin — difficul- dioxin has caused cancer, mis- ties that range from headaches carriages and birth defects in la- to cancer. boratory animals and added: ' "It's a different pamphlet done "We do know that humans who by different people and a differ- have been exposed to dioxin dur- ent administration," said Larry ing industrial accidents have de- Moen of the VA's Office of Public veloped a specific skin condition and Consumer Affairs, in re- known as chloracne which close- sponse to questions. ly resembles the common forms Moen said no effort was made, of acne." Jfe ======_!fc: ^~™-,OT,- ™"»<™5s;s;.iF:=;t^s

THE WASHINGTON PACT iption of Agent Orange *in New VA Paniphlei »iirt £•.... .;. i -•'•• ' " * •- *•.*;-;• ••> function and nerve damage have along the government been reported.... Some-reports Orange used to get a have suggested that people exposed m£ the diseases that to dioxin have a higher incidence of associated with exposure some forms of cancer. There are also a toxic contaminant in the reports that dioxin can cause en- ijdef' folianto largement of the liver and a decrease they wfll get a pamphlet m the speed of transmission of nerve worries about dioxin are — iilses." '•':. ' ''-• -'• 'r jnly has d on "a theory" that it may lave cav led "delayed health effects/ new, blue-covered publication ™-'»g WV a, theory was none of Wch is fitted.'; s - . that veterans who were -.The \ iterans Adminfatration said exposed to Agent Orange -might be Wat, m i wising the pamphlet, no ef- subject to delayed health effects fort was made to. tone down what 'from the exposure. •'•^V-""!.;''-.%i--.-' - veterans told about the possible health . "The theory was based on the feet : It's a that one of the chemicals, 2,46-T pamphlet done by1 . contained minute traces of * tffric different aid a different ad- 'chemical, dioxin (TOTD),'which aaki- Larry R. Moen, 'contaminated the herbicide daring !who runs VAV public infonna- the manufacturing process,' v^'^..--, ^ educatUm .program on Agent -. **n» contaminant dioxin ^ of • He concerni because animal itudies have' d pamphlet Bhown it to be toxic to certain spe- tdated." It bore a pho- cies, like other tone substance! tograph x Cleland, VA admin- istrator dioxin has produced a number of a*? President Carter. nous conditions among laboratc ;* Both d and 'the new publi- animak" ;> -T-T.!^ :cations that facts about poe- «ble Moen said the few remaining damage nave not been copies of the orange pamphlet were t /the old one was taken off the shelves. But, he said, what is sus- the blue pamphlet was not intended to replace the orange one. ' > the old, orange-col- Another new pamphlet, he said, said: "We do know has been issued to tell about medical have been exposed treatment offered veterans who be- industrial accidents lieve they might have been exposed a specific skin con- to Agent Orange in Vietnam! <:? as chloracne, which; A thud, to come out next month, the common forms wul answer frequently asked ques- tions, he said, and another publica- blood dis- tion is planned to describe research* alterations in liver* under way or anticipated.^;* V ' JS> SOURCE Columbus Citizen Journal CITY AND STATE Colunibus, Ohio DATE OF PUBL. ..-,„ Mav 28. 3.992

•k-? :•..,..- - •>: By LEE LEONARD university or college as the medical f- Agent Orange cases will be re- facility tor compiling information, con- ferred to the US. Veterans' Adminis- .* Gov. James A. Rhodes signed legis- ducting medical studies and perforat- tration for -treatment and medical lation yesterday, effective in 90 days,, ing genetic tests on veterans believed ' claims.' • -": -. \ . that establishes a genetic screening; to have been exposed to the chemical. • The state attorney general will be and counseling program for Vietnam Agent Orange is a defoliant used in authorized to file a class-action suit in veterans who were exposed to the toxic, Southeast Asia during fighting in the. behalf .7«f atflicated veterans against chemical Agent Orange. , .'-. 1960s and '70s to destroy jungle cover. - the chemical company that produced The governor also signed a bill that The chemical may have caused se- the toxic agent. Veterans will have two allows big cities next year to let up rious skin and respiratory problems for years after'their malady becomes collection agencies for unpaid parking the affected veterans, as wel) as de- known to be a party to such a lawsuit. * fines, enabling them to double their foniuUeS in their chiWren. v. i , * ,. \1 "The'existing state budget contains collections in some instances, --, • Thus lair, there has been a lack of $500,000 to get the new screening and Sponsors'of the new law'said, for , facilities to the United States for either counseling program started. -., ,• example, that Columbus's annual park- screening or treating exposed veterans The new parking-ticket law, effec- ing-fine .revenues could go,from 1680,- and counseling their families. tive next Jan. 1, will permit municipal- OQQ to tl.35 million under the new ': The new law establishes an Agent ities to treat unpaid parking fines as a system. ..*.>. ,..»* .•. ^iW^Kr-- ' •' Orange Advisory Council to oversee civil matter rather than a criminal The Agent Orange bill was'spon-?- •the studies,, counseling and testing, and offense.' • -• ".-"•-'••• -' ' aored by Sea. Thomas A. Van Meter, R- - 'requires liny physician or hospital k > Sponsors said this will eliminate the Ashland, a Vietnam veteran. i» treating a veteran exposed to Agent involvement of police officers and ^ .>-. It requires that the Ohio Board of Orange to report it to, the designated prosecutors in the collection process, Regents designate a state-supported vi medical facility. /,. ,-w. ^ '.»>«'.'•?.'.- saving government money. SOURCE The Dallas Morning News CITDallasY AND STAT, ETexas DATE OF PUBL. Mav 28. 1982

Friday, May 28, 1982 3 A Vietnamese OK soujlht

gation membenalso will ask iibout BANGKOK, Thailand - A dele-. the estimated 2,500 Americans mis- Ration of American Vietnam War ' sing in action during thkvietnam veterans'will ask the Vietnamese War and the fate of the Estimated government to allow VS. scientists 80,000 Vietnamese «o.:; :-• Thomas Bird, a former infantry '^e wete told in December that sergeant and vice president of the* the Vietnamese government would Vietnam Veterans of America Asso- give a sympathetic heariMg to the ciation,,said the 9-member delega- children's case," Bird-^ald. "We tion will-try to open discussions now want to let them know of; con- with the Vietnamese about the ef- gressional moves to permit' their fect of Agent Orange, a defoliant easy entry to the UnitetfStates," used by U.S, forces during the war. ; The group, which will leave for The group will inclade tWatti /Hanoi Friday, will follow up a visit cal producer Joseph Papjfcjvbo will a group of veterans made in Decem- be ignoring U.S. govepnme^t ad- ber •• -.-• • :; r .. • '.' . .- vice by trying to organise a: VS. "We will ask permission for free tour for Dang Thai Son^ux award- winning Vietnamese concert 'pia- access to Vietnam, or territory in nist T;:r the south where Agent Orange was _. • • • • used, for scientists from America to Papp produced such' Broad- strengthen their studies," fie said.\:: way shows as A Chorus and Pi-

During the week-long visit, dele- rates of Pemance. • ' SOURCE PEOPLE'S WORLD

CITY AND STATE BERKELEY, CA

DATE OF PUBL. May 29, 1982

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; |fc^^^^^i^AifpriJ«^i«'':fef ^a ^vS^"" BERKELEY-Or. Ton That herbicide spraying, and working Tung, reknowned Vietnamese for closer scientific cooperation surgeon-scientist and world's between U.S. and Vietnamese leading expert en Agent Orange, scientists. In the Bay Area, he died in Hanoi Map 7, il Was spoke at a reception sponsored by learned here this week.. u • . the U.S.-Vtetnam Friendship Dr. Tung was director and - Dr. Tung chaired a special chief of surgery at Viet Due .commission of both Vietnamese Hospital, a member of the and foreign experts on the con- National Assembly of Vietnam sequences of U.S. chemical and Vice Minister of Public warfare hi Vietnam and authored Health, and a member .of the a book "U.S. Chemical Warfare Academies of Medicine of the and Its Consequences." USSR, German Democratic Dr. Tung would have been 70 Republic, France and Algeria. yean old May 10. He made a national tour of the A State funeral was held May 9 U.S. in .1979, testifying in in Hanoi, organized by members Washington D.C. before a of the Vietnamese State, Party Congressional committee on and Fatherland Front. / -R continued: "Some reports have suggested that if ^e exposed to dioxin have a higher by; cideai^t some forms of cancer. There are: : ijJt?i •-£ • 4-,: .-.*-;•-.,v."i;;'^*.^ • .- <,;•.?,.•K.,.--,-..i-.:-.,. .•->;.,.._ ' .- 44ft ^|- ~.- 1 also relPu that dioxin can cause enlargement ^UL. -m*" -<.-»--».JMI~..!~-*-. ~--^..r. •-,.'•— ~*if~ »i.*4fci^»-u^.-t^—.«-;. - • • • U V i *• gpji;?4f;y~..,, ,^s.;... ,- „ i,;f,L-_ £,-.,.. * .,...-,1, ..-,..,...„.- i._l..Jiy if ^ of the liver and a decrease in the speed of trans- mission of nerve impulses." . :• That information is dropped from the new , publication. In Its place, under the heading, * "Why People Are Concerned," it says: -During 1978, a theory was publicized that • the veterans exposed to -Agent Orange when it was used, in Vietnam between 1955 and 1171 might be subject to delayed health effects from the exposure, j,, ;..-.'.•..•-_ .'. -..v •..•••..::.-/'': "The Ojeory was based oa the fact that pne of the chemicals, 2,4,5-TT contained minute traces,, of a toxic chemical, dioxin (TCDD), which con- taminated the. herbicide during the manufactur- ing process. 'The contaminant dioxin is of con- 00 cern because animal studies have shown it to Of AgemrOrMg e Th "I!"* • I be toxic to certain species. Like other toxic sub- g stances, dioxin has produced a number of serfc' 1 ous conditions among laboratory animals..* • '<: Of. By MIKE FEINSILBER ' ' Hoen said not many copies of the Cleland' 3 • ;.•>• <•' '• •• . .;. '.V-.*'! * • '- - --.'..•.'.. •••• JH pamphlet were left, and those that remained' WASHINGTON - The Veterans Adininistra- were taken from the racks. " r•''• £ e tton has scaled back the information it gives .' \ No one knows how many GIs were exposed Inquiring veterans about Agent Orange, drop-- to Agent Orange from 1962 to 1971, when 12 mil*,, ping specific mention of the diseases for which„ Bon gallons were sprayed to kill Viet Cong,! contact with the defoliant Is a suspected cause.;.'; i;-_ crops and strip away jungle cover concealing > ; ,,A new pamphlet names no diseases and says; communist troops. An estimated 8 percent O-HERALD Monday, May 31,1982 Veterai^Ssk For U.S. Study On Defoliant .'ran WttU-HenU Pita SetvtoM - Hanoi, Vietnam — An American Viet- nam War veterans' group Sunday pro- posed that American scientists come to Vietnam to investigate the effects of Agent Orange, a defoliant used bv U S forces during the war. But Vietnamese officials said they would have to discuss the detailed se- ven-page proposal from the Vietnam U Veterans of America before agreeing to •the study, The Associated Press report- jr€Q» *", ?.",'- -..-'*' * The Vietnamese claim ymay cause birth defects, er cancer (and other ailments. .- ;, The ntae-member group, headed by ; Tom Bird, arrived Friday in Hanoi for a : week's visit and were given what the ; Vietnamese called "initial information" on American war dead in five provinces ; of the country. > | The group is expected to return this week with the remains of fdur service- i men listed as missing in action over North Vietnam for at least 15 years ; news reports said Sunday. ' ? U.S. records available in Bangkok ! showed all four of the dead servicemen I were last reported Hying over North b Vietnam in aircraft presumably shot down by rommunist gunners between ' ' W o, ' ' -':-,. Vietnamese officials said the remains of four other Americans had been recovered but not identified, and would be repatriated at a later date, United Press International reported. Ah esti- mated 2,500 U.S. servicemen are listed as missing in Vietnam. Most members of the group praised what they said was the sKyof the ;V^»m«eofficials they encotmtered described the series of long, week- meetings as "highly emotional," CUQ« . t_ ,, . The meeting on Agent Orange took jplace at the Vietnam-German Demo- cratic Republic Friendship Hospital ; Reporters and some of the group mem- ; bers were later taken to a ward for ^.possible victims of dioxin, the toxin ^component of Agent Orange. < t Dr. Ton Buc Lang, a key Vietnamese f researcher, admitted there was still , teck of scientific proof of the agent's ..harmful effects. But he said that S: research showed a very high incidence birth defects in children of veterans had fought ta-South Vietnam. SOURCE ARGUS-LEADER CITY AND STATE Sioux Falls, S.D. DATE OF PUBU May 31, 1982 (Argus Leader, Sioux Falls, S.D. Monday, May 31,19S2 Vets' urge Agent Orange study HANOI, Vietnam CAP) - Angroup members were later taken to American Vietnam war veterans' a ward for possible victims of diox- group Sunday proposed that Ameri- in, the toxin component of Agent can scientists come to Vietnam to Orange which was sprayed on the investigate the effects of Agent Or- countryside as a defoliant to de- ange, a defoliant used by U.S. prive Communist forces of cover. forces during the war. The patients included two blind But Vietnamese officials said daughters of a man who said he was they would have to discuss the de- a driver on the Ho Chi Minn Trail, a tailed, seven-page proposal from supply route from North to South the Vietnam veterans of America Vietnam, and who had been ex- (W A) before agreeing to the study. posed to the agent. The Vietnamese claim Agent Or- The effects of Agent Orange are ange may cause birth defects, liver still the subject of medical research cancer and other ailments. and controversy in the United The nine-member group, headed States. by VVA vice president Tom Bird, ived in Hanoi Friday for a (k's visit and were given what Vietnamese called initial infor- feation on American war dead in five provinces of the country. The names of four dead U.S. ser- vicemen were provided and the Vietnamese said the remains of lour others were recovered, but had not been identified. Officials said the remains would be repatriated at a later date. Bird said Hanoi would allow U.S. servicemen's children — estimated at up to 50,000 — to leave Vietnam for the United States, but would need proof the fathers really want- ed a reunion. • , It was not immediately clear whether the plan intended for the youngsters to live in the United States, how the group proposed to £ace them, or whether their moth- ers would be involved in a trip abroad. * .The meeting on Agent Orange look place at the Vietnam-German Democratic Republic Friendship Hospital. Reporters and some of the • 10AjF^_iW5Ss±^

• - - .-*.-•%*. ».•-, • ., ., „ said the remains of four others were re- HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -An Ameri- covered but had not been identified. Of • ^^•^iS^SSTSSSR- can Vietnam War veterans' group Sun- ticials said the remains would be repa- day proposed that American scientists triated later. *=> <>:.-•- »--. - '• • come to Vietnam to investigate the ef- ,. Bird said Hanoi would allow U.S. ser- fects of Agent Orange, a defoliant used, v vicemen's children — who are estimat- by U.S. forces during the war. » r ,;^ ed to number up to 50,000 — to leave But Vietnamese officials said they Vietnam for the United States, but would have to discuss the detailed, sev- -would need proof the fathers really en-page proposal from the Vietnam, Vet- wanted a —•••*». *, > 97*..- ..•;-. . ",-.- .-., ...... erans of America (VVA) before agreeing • U w*a uuk iu«^v.». „ to the study. The Vietnamese claim thrplan intended for the ,,_ In a toast to Deputy Foreign Minister Agent Orange may cause birth defects, live in the United States, hooww group Ha Van Lau, New York City theatrical liver cancer and other ailments. proposed- t•o trac. —e them«.««., o„r, iiff theif r moth- producer Joseph Papp said: "Some of us „ --wMnwn orrtue ers would be involved in a trip abroad. will be criticized when —' Most members of the group praised Untted what they said was the stocky of the Vietnamese officials they encountered \UM\M^f* »* w»— I on we i»uw « .--— goodwill." F4PP, one of America's top stage pro- mVietnam j;- • -K, • •*';'•

* trip to help inm 4^ tosdn component I naineseiduftural exchange,,, , e which was sprayed on I He said Washington's "punitive noli- as a defoliant to deprive rty"towar dVietna m - which inctooesj a ^un or . t Sade embargo ^ «> ^o?"^16?0!: : The patients Included two blind 'Son - was not "reflected in the gen- j-JJjLjf Ja man who said he was a rcSalAmerican public,'' : : V SSwSsHoaiMinh Trail a sup- 5 ! Bird, an infantry sergeant in the Viet, J" te {rom North to &mtl [ VietnMj, ^namw, said his '"dream" wasto have,. JSd'Jbo bad been exposed to the chemi- SOURCE COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY AND STATE Danville, Illinois

DATE Of PUBL. Mav 31. 1982 1 Hit Cdmm*fdal-N«w», Danvtlto, III Monday, May 31,1982

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) 4 An namese said the remains vt four 'action, Ameraslans and Agent ^American Vietnam war veterans'; others wece recovered, but had not i Orange as "highly emotional." '• Anwrt-... .been identified. .tWflciaU said the >_ "Any ttaje the U,S. and Viet- voan scientists "come to Vietnam to remains would be repatriated at a" namese governments start working ^investigate the effect* of Agent:: :|»ter dato.-i':: • >,-;• ^h/- "' -,-rJz together, we'll be out of business, Orange, a defoliant used by U.8. ^ Bird saldHanol would allow U.S. and happily so," said Greg Kane, forces during thewar*- -"•'- *":LT.^'r: servicemen's ohildreh -estimated . director of operations of the WA in : But Vietnamese officials said they " at ijp to 50,000 - to leave Vietnam ' New York. "We're just fillin• g the 'would have to discuss the detailed, _ for the Untied States, but would need ...... seven-page proposal from the Viet- proof the" father'''' s really wante"' d' a" ' : Bird, an infantry sergeant in the nam Veterans of America (WA) - . .. - . . Vietnam war, said his "dream" was before agreeing to the study. The . It was not immediately clear to have the American public per- Vietnamese claim Agent Orange whether the .plan Intended (or the suade Washington to adopt a policy may cause birth defects, liver can- : youngsters to live in the United that would finally bring peace be- cer and other ailments. ~ States, how the group proposed to tween the one-time enemies. The nine-member group, headed, trace them, or whether their moth- "I promise to let America know, by WA vice president Tom Bird; ers would ::he involved in a trip to popularize your humanitarian ef- arrived in Hanoi Friday for a week's 'abroad. :; /-— ^..--co-.:^-:-;- forts on behalf of the MIAs," Bird visit and were given what the Viet- Most members of the group told Lau in an informal talk Satur- namese called "Initial Information" . praised what they said was the sin- on American war dead in five prov- >. cerity of the Vietnamese officials Tne meeting oh Agent Orange incea of the country. - :.'.". .-• :they encountered and described the took place at the Vietnam-German : . The names of four dead U.S. ser- '-.. series of long, weekend meetings on Democratic Republic Friendship vicemen were provided and the Viet- :'. the Issues of Americans missing in Hospital. - .-"'.. • ..-. SOURCE TRIBUNE CITY AND STATE OAKLAND. CA DATE OF PUBL. Mav 31. 1982 s urge new'Orange' study *Mmt •SW'fei'Wy. ;*''^^>-:».':.jJ;'*i. "•;•£•„•!, ^yjCi. 'V?->*.,-:«.•';,,•'.,-..?•• v^^ • •' • -• ' vi4j|fc.& j^&#^&;$^#^^ -•viiS^w •:. • „•- •:....:. t Oil*) :^ AiAa' American **8icialB they* encountered and described tthhe war veterans' group Sunday proposed aerie* of long, weekend meetings on the issues that American scientists come to Vietnam to . of Americans missing in action, Amerasian* "investigate the effects of ABenjLOraMe, a and Agent Orange as "highly emotional." - ,« defoliant used by;*J.S. forces'ininng the war. "Any time the U.S. and Vietnamese gov- *** But Vietnamese officials said they would , ernments start working together, well be out to discuss the detailed, .seven-page pro- of business, and happily so," said Greg Kane, posal from the Vietnam Veterans of America director of operations of the WA in New before agreeing to the study. The Vietnamese York. "We're just filling the gap." *-; ^claira, Agent Orange may cause birth defects, M • ^ "You people have touched my heart," said **Uver cancer and other ailments, <•" :"^ Lynda Van Devanter of Herndon, Va., a nurse ~:- The nine-member group, headed by WA in Vietnam during the war, which ended in vice president Tom Bird, arrived In Hanoi -Friday for a week's visit and were given what ' . In i toast to Deputy Foreign Minister Ha ' Vietnamese called "initial information" on Van Lau, New York City theatrical producer dead in five provinces of the Joseph Papp said: "Some of us will be criti- cized when we return to the United States. Our The names of four dead US. servicemen extreme emotion might be misconstrued as provided and the Vietnamese said the being brainwashed, but we are not fools. We Of fear other* were recovered, bat understand real feelings, the feelings of good- Knad not been identified. Officials said the r«- . jprUL* \>K,...f:;k,'.;.',...... '...-T^ . . '«jnaina would be repatriated at a later date. A Papp, one of America'*'top stage pro- g* ..Bird said Hanoi would allow UA serviceT; ducers, was asked to come along on the trip to Omen's children — estimated at up to 59,000 «:: * initiate an American-Vietnamese cultural £to leave Vietnam for the United States, but fc would need proof the fathers really wanted 4% He said Washington's "punitive policy" to- 4a>*> _ i * -„. -. .«."•-.?,' -;*'--' - <•' . . •- -,,s. * -- • • . .**-.. --.'• '•*'.-.,. * Vietnam — which includes a trade em- It was not Immediately clear whether the bargo and no diplomatic recognition — was £ plan intended for the youngsters to live In the '•not "reflected in the general American pub- j» United States, how the group proposed to lic." •'.-••• . Sw trace them, or whether their mothers would *i promise to let America know, to popu- be involved in a trip abroad. H ,r^ larize your humanitarian efforts on behalf of E Moat members of the group praised what the MlAs," Bird told Lau in an informal talk •gjthey said was the sincerity of the Vietnamese" Saturday. '"•;•. "..•'-.•.•... •-•-*•• ••aMMIrJ-: Pttetegoe. N.Y., he rTne words on the plaque outside Ike Veterans Ad- largest dass-a* pro- ministration building are ''^-^f^^'-f^^^fS^S^-*^'*^:~ duct liability case in . :,.v- »ii.,4S2.l.,«,. «£i;ai!S3i^i4*!lS{fci^_ -- /Abraham Lincoln's: "To, •*-, -r ••-' • -- -,, . / _- _^- -v • Besides being the -: hrgest.it also is one of the Vietnam^eterans battling••'•-.••-1*' 1 •s'VJvy.-r- .,;.- ;B»st complex of lawsuits, rip^^j&fr:" • f Juggling questions of legal w$*#f£v.r..'.,uj.«i..v.,vrt. t *-,-,•>.< -. (liability and scientific [/evidence. •.> •,-.< By CAROLYN PESCE Some 350 pounds ef dioxin pro- | Are the Agent Orange Gonnen News Service _aWy fen on Vietnam, combined ; manufacturers responsible Copyrigi^TiMi, MUirMnti Timw In (he 10 million gallons of Agent .for its ill effects, or is it the The rash on Carl Gfflfespie's face Orange sprayed there between f federal government — or keeps coming back. Tle^Scars 1965 and 1970. It also wafted over •no one? heal, but then his skin <*wel$ open many, if not all, of the 2.4 million C And can it be said for American troops there. Says one , sure that the ailments were' again, and it oozes. PimpleS on * veteran, "If you were in Vietnam, 36-year-old face. V (- ••*?..(- p caused by exposure to The burning sensation in hte yon were exposed, vtiess you were Agent Orange? lungs never goes away, neither do in Saigon sipping Perrierwater." the terrible headaches and (be ?Joe Lucas laat sure ' Roger Phillis thinks he is stomach pains.. And jhejiepres- there he got his worst dose \ sure. Phillis works as a 'rion. ^ -*•"• "* ! , qf Agent Orange. - policeman in Marietta. It's And the memory. *' t Lucas, like Gillespie, • the same job he wanted For Carl Gillesple of New K when he joined the Matamoras, Ohio, it came in the and bad nerves and depres- v Marines, taut someone Demilitarized Zone in Vietnam. * thought he was too small to • His job that day was to dig * He also lives with his : be a military policeman, so bunkers into the side of $ cliff, but fife and their two r he was made a machine first the vegetation had to be kill- •aughters, Missy and Shel- •, gunner and sent to Viet- ed. ;--. '•'.••. •. • •. - 1y. The children were born The spray planes came, and the three years apart after he On one mission, he says, wind shifted. 6ame back from Vietnam. he remembers walking ' "The change of wind blew mist Both were born albino. through elephant grass so down on us," Gillespie recalls. "If They are both legally blind, sharp it cut his skin. The [ you caught it in the sunlight, you attend special classes, and grass was oily; it had just I could see a rainbow color." lay they wish they looked been sprayed. In a matter I It was no rainbow. It was Agent fke other kidiuy . of days, he says, he was ' Orange. . ;., r . • 'Tm not ashamed of treated for a severe skin ! "' Agent Orange — a combination them," says Lucas? 35. [ rash, but the Marines kept J of compounds known as 2,4^,-T, "They're good kids. I'm not no records. : . > and 2,4-D, to be exact — was saying for sure they're like Now, on a hot and humid ', dumped on Vietnam in staggering that because of Agent day in Marietta, Phillis ; Y amounts to help Americanstight a Orange, but I would sure feels like tearing his skin V war on terrain they did not know. like to know. I don't know apart And in the winter- • A virulent herbicide, it could what else it could be." tune, his irritated skin . wither a forest cover overnight. turns purple and looks like To Victor Yannacone, it scar tissue, * , Combining the two compounds boils down to one simple * produces dioxin, termed the fact: "All of the men who # deadliest compound made by t . went to Vietnam went there "man. ThreeI ouhcer^tf dioxin m- healthy and came back (roduced into New York's water .sick." , |- supply coul:d kill the city's popula- ; Yet he knows that resolv- - • .-. ing the Agent Orange issue is not that simple. > Working in a cluttered of- SOURCE WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL CITY AND STATE Madison, Wisconsin DATE OF PUBi_. June 1, 1982 p«9« 16, Section 1} ., %;;iV::;t Wisconsin State Journal. Tuesday, June 1,1982 f" • " ~ "'. VT .;.V-;'.:.V-\;~.*."C.T ''. r"; ; • • Wef Agent Orange study asked r. HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — An American Vietnam War veterans' group proposed Sunday that American scientists come to Vietnam to investigate the effects of Agent Orange, a defoliant used by U.S. forces during the war. But Vietnamese officials said they would have to discuss the seven-page proposal from the Vietnam Veterans of America before agreeing to the study. The Vietnamese claim Agent Orange may cause birth defects, liver cancer and other ailments. The nine-member group arrived in Hanoi Friday for a week's visit and was given what the Vietnamese called "initial information" on American war dead in five provinces. IA DAILY TOWN TALK CITY AND STX ALEXANDRIA, LOUISIANA 71301 DATE OF PUBL. JUNE i, 1982 .i >•' t^islcrtors Turn tycwn Suit Bill i tM*Fm A \^1T «^«- ^f -+J! +^- •.— ^ft &~m •-"•JJ^JP "When a corporation is asked to 1 Louisiana legislators refused Mon- produce chemicals in the national day to make it easier for Vietnam interest- and here we're subject- veterans to file claims juzainst ing the people who produced the chemical companies that manu- supplies in time of war (to liabil- factured the defoliant Agent { Orange. ity) there is no end to it" Members 6f the Civil taw and Rep. Charles Jones, a Monroe Procedure Committee voted 7-2 lawyer, acknowleged the reserva- against a proposal that would have tions expressed by others on the increased the time allowed for ffl- committee, but said facts other than legal procedure should be ingdamages. //. . ., , considered. ,, ;>,. .,,..; Under the proposal, veterans R diagnosed in the future to have medical problems that could be traced to Agent Orange would i have grounds to sue. Present law begins the statute of limitations at the time when the chemical was identified as a health hazard. The proposal would have allowed each veteran time to file suit after being diagnosed in the future with a disease traceable to Agent Orange. . "It would open the door to many more cases," said Vic Marceflo, a

But lawmakers said the pro- posal was special interest legisla- tion that would "open a can of worms." " , . , "War is horrible, whatever the situation," said Rep. BJ. O'Neal R-Shreveport, and a veteran.' New VA Office To Deal With Agent Orange In a continuing effort to help resolve remaining Agent Orange questions, the Veter- H ans Administration has an- O CO nounced the formation of a W C new office to deal exclusively W wtib Agent Orange natters. H H » -5 , Charles T. Hagd. VA 33 «! deputy administrator who heads Ore Agent Orange Policy Coordinating Com- 3 U-J mittee, said creatiota of the 8 o t H Agent Orange Research and nJ Education Office (AOREO) should ensure clear policy guidance and solid manage- ment, of the many Agent Orange-related activities in which the VA is involved. ""The Veterans Adminis- tration should lead the way in resolving the Agent Orange question through our medical and scientific research pro- jects and I believe the forma- tion of this new office is a step in the right direction,". Hagelsaid. "It is my intention that this new office become the single focal point for all VA Agent Orange matters and that h provide guidance and over- sight for all of these ac- tivities." ;-: "-:• - '-•'•• 1 The VA official pointed ! out that VA's Department of Medicine and Surgery will continue to play a lead role in 'the VA's Agent Orange pro- gram and will work closely with the new office. The of- fice will be headed by Maurice LeVois, a Ph.D. candidate in health psy- chology and health systems research at the University of California Medical Center in i, San Francisco. He will report directly to HageL- v,, ;:: Assisting in the Agent Orange efforts will be Dr. Theodore Woodward, one of the VAY "Distinguished SOURCE THE SHREVEPORT TIMES CITY AND STATE SHREVEPORT, LA

DATE OF PUBL. JUNE 1, 1982 (14-C)

Extra time^^ « .»»»,.,.». „- »-.,,...... -> , "•<-' ••••»••'»-*•••<••• f&rdefpliant suitsrejected BATON ROUGE (UPI) - Loui- siana legislators refused Monday to make it easier for Vietnam veterans to file claims against chemical companies that manu- factured the defoliant Agent Or- ange. • • - Members of the Civil Law* and Procedure Committee voted 7-2 against a proposal that would have increased the time allowed for filing damages. Under the proposal, veterans diagnosed in the future to have medical problems that could be raced to Agent Orange would iave grounds to sue. ? Present law begins the statute of- imitations at the. time when the chemical was identified as a icalth hazard. The proposal would lave allowed each veteran time to file suit after being diagnosed in the future with a disease traceable to Agent Orange. • "It would open the door to many more cases," said Vic Marcello, a lawyer representing Agent Orange victims in Louisiana. vBut lawmakers said the pro- posal was special interest legisla- tion that would "open a can of worms." . "War is horrible, whatever the situation," said Rep. B.P. O'Neal, R-Sbreveport, and a veteran. "When a corporation is asked to produce chemicals in the national .interest... and here we're subject* ing the people who produced the supplies in time of war (to liabil- ity) there is no end to it" Rep. Charles Jones, a Monroe lawyer, acknowleged the reserva- tions expressed by others on the committee, but said facts other than legal procedure should be considered. „ "Those persons that have not had any direct relationship to the situation probably can be more philosophical," Jones said. "I bad two brothers to serve in Vietnam and .one .brother to be (8) killed." • 40 Grand Island (Neb.) Daily Independent Wednesday. June 2, 1982 - ' - - •-••"" •<"•'"• .r ...... _mi DAILY INDEPENDENT Grand Island, Neb.

June 2, 1982

„ AaentOranqi, •""• •" • aiaik^a^V - -t«t '"**•"' •*--••v ~* e Oh**- a-^r-''- ^•^F '£s- 5 « -< £---• She was introduced to Paul &.&#-;4*-> T -I-*li i- .^^^ _^ • •«. - tj-. fT?'!L&"--^a*'S?L ,,_.„. Reutershan, a veteran convinced $-s :.'*'i By BETSY REMEDY (, t>; 3 "' that the. cancer which eventually 4^-i:. jUsoctoted Press Writef' ^^:> was caused by dioxin in J "NEW YORK (AP) - Five years after her daughter Kerry was born copter in Vietnam. He conducted a .with multiple birth defects, Maureen Ing thumb and contracted fingers. death-bed crusade to warn others. ^Ryan was in a hospital watting room Those were just the first of 8 She read case studies of those ac- when she noticed a two-paragraph birth defects doctors would discover, cidentally .exposed and reports from story in a health magazine. Including duplicate reproductive.or- a Vietnamese doctor who charged "Scientists Questioning Herbicide gans and a serious heart defect that dioxin was causing miscarriages Use in Vietnam, "saW the headline. But the Ryans welcomed their among Vietnamese women and nu- "It did something to me," Mrs. child. "She enriches our lives every merous birth deformities there. .Ryan, 34, recalls. "A light went on." day,"Mrs. Ryan says., ,?,-;• r > "The clincher" came when she re- - Thus began the Ryan family's In the first seven yean of Kerry's alized her husband's medical prob- Crusade against Agent Orange, a de- Hfe, during which she bad at least lems — headaches, weight loss, 'foliant the Army used when Michael •even major operations, they paid an hearing loss, nervousness and an Ryan was in Vietnam in 1967. It con- estimated $70,000 for treatment — in ugly rash called chloracne — tains dioxin, a highly toxic contami- addition to insurance payments; matched those found in people ex- nant. Ryan's pay as a Suffolk County posed to the chemical. Maureen Ryan began reading all policeman couldn't cover the bills Ryan's cousin, a career Army she could about the chemical. One and they were always broke, until serviceman who. had flown spray day, she stumbled across the word Mrs. Ryan four years ago took a job missions in Vietnam, confirmed "teratrogen," and the horror'of what fen a state psychiatric hospital nearRyan had been in areas where the She and her husband believe hap- their home in Stony Brook. • ,< „ chemicals were sprayed. .» pened to their famfly became clear. Yearly medical expenses run "When we finally came to the irre- "I looked it up in the dictionary. abort $4,000 to $5,000, including $3,000 futable evidence that this is what It's a Greek word meaning monster in disposable diapers not reimbursa- happened, you felt like you'd been maker. I remember looking at Kerry ble by insurance. P •, raped," says Mrs. Ryan. and thinking 'monster makers... the Many times Kerry was near That anger has not abated. It will death. not until they get answers and relief i Until then, the Long Island couple At 18 months, just as she was be- from the chemical companies they bad accepted the handicaps of Kerry, ginning to walk, a Mood clot that have sued and {he government. only child, as an act of God. formed during surgery permanently "Mike has been home from Viet- ' . damaged her brain — one of her | nam for 16 years, Kerry is 11 years weren't mad at all before healthy organs — making her tempo- : old. At what point do we get some ex- Agent Orange," Ryan, 36, said. rarily blind. planations?" she asks. "When we found out ... it was like ail While she regained sight, Kerry i The Ryans were among the first to the scabs of the wound had been remains intellectually damaged. Her Join Agent Orange Victims Interna- ripped off." . ^ speech is impaired and she is con- i tional in 1978. They have held news They were angry that toe govern- finedt o a wheelchair. '' " conferences and testified in Con- ment hadn't warned Ryan about the The hardest part, says Mrs. Ryan, potential hazards of exposure; that is knowing "for the rest of her life In 1979, Ryan was a plaintiff in a they dared not risk having another shell be in diapers and a wheelchair class-action suit against Dow Chemi- child; that Ryan might face an in- ... that never once will she go on a cal Co. and five other manufacturers creased risk of cancer. •;-..' '" *'• date, go to a prom, walk down the of defoliants and herbicides sprayed I. And they were angered again 1aisle on her father's arm." ' •» , in Vietnam. The case is pending. : when the Veteran's Administration Today, the energy once spent Kerry, who knows about Agent Refused to concede Agent Orange keeping Kerry alive is directed to- Orange, still sees doctors twice a might be causing cancer and other ward Agent Orange, the enemy since month, has expensive physical and illnesses in veterans and birth de- that day in 1976 in the waiting room rehabilitative therapy three times a fects in their children. -. , of Johns Hopkins Medical Cente : r in week, .needs orthopedic devices and ' The VA has declined to pay for re- Baltimore. ' .; - faces further corrective surgery. lated treatments. It was not until 1979 For three years, Mrs. Ryan did re- With profits from their book, the that Congress mandated a study of search. '- ' - . e-iif-x. f., • Ryans hope to build a home specially 18,000 veterans to learn the possible designed for Kerry. • • jUeffectsofAgentOrange. . . i f T The Ryans have told their story in "Kerry, Agent Orange and an Ameri- can Family," by Chicago journalist- •utbor Clifford Undecker. , >,: v , 1HE FAYETTEVILLE OBSERVER. Thursday. l«e 3. MB SborJcs Crusade .' . . •• . 4-. »••>.'• • : • i

• 1 NEW YORK (AP) — Fto rears after her daughter Kerry was bom with multiple birth detects, fif f "Ttfitl Fv«" •*« IB « hospital waiting room when she noticed a two-paragraph story in a health magazine. "Scientists Questioning Herbicide Use in Vietnam," said the headline. "It did something to me," Mrs. Ryan. 34. recalls. ~A light went on.". Thus began tt** jPyan f"M -• ••• -.-.: • ' '."•She was introduced to Paul Reutenhan, a veteran convinced that the cancer which eventually killed him was caused by dioxin in chemicals he •prayed from his helicopter in Vietnam. He conducted a death-bed crusade to warn others. / , She read case studies of those accidentally exposed and reports from a Vietnamese doctor who charged that dioxin was causing miscarriages among Vietnamese women and numerous birth deformities there. "The clincher" came, when she realized her husband's medical problems — headaches, weight loss, bearing loss, nervousness and an •gly rash called cUoracne — matched those found hi people exposed to the chemical. 7 ' ^r. T^ • Ryan's cousin, a career Army serviceman who had flown spray -missions in Vietnam, confirmed Jtyah had been hi areas where the chemicals were sprayed. ' •r- "When we finally came to the Irrefutable evidence that this Is what Happened, you felt like you'd been raped," says Mn. Ryan. That anger has not abaurf. U will not until they get answers and relief 1 •.• . • r-c^-H ~" • T-"--'- - — '•^~r — "~~ "'-"•• " : ~ ' •: from the chemical companies they have sued and the government. ; - •Slike has been home from Vietnam tor 1« yean, Kerry is 11 yean old.: At what point do we get some explanations?" the asks. ' .; The Hyans were among the fint to join Agent Orange Victims. International in WW. They have held news conferences and testified to; Ryan WM a plaintiff m a cUss-action suit against Do£ Chemical Co. and five other manufacturers of defoliants and herbicides; sprayed in Vietnam. The case is pending. .. : ; ' Kerry, who knows about Agent Orange, atill sees docton twice a, ^BonthVhalVxpensive physfcaland rehabilitative therapy three times >; week/needs orthopedic devices and faces further coirective surgery. • •„ /% p^fits^mtbelr book, the Ryaw hope to build a home specially; I designed tor Keny. ^ >_-^..«it>vi-.j; • • ,.;> ' . ..;' hr -,"•.•*. SOURCE Daily News CITY AND STATE New York, New York

DATE OF PUBL. June 3, 1982 P.5

expectedto veto within two - penalty bill approved June l«r 1W3, to do so. tne Legislature late tuesday, his ly alad signed toto law abfll.fd afartb consecutive thunlbs-down on a <• It possible for more Vietnam veteran* property tax exemptions-for capital punishment measure. ;The Mtt the state to Ute damage «uH» lac ..latest vote in the Assemblj, *1 16 61, i J&nesaes caused 6y the defoliant Agent iatSfly houseil in New Yorlt ICfly. t^ie was far «hort of the 100 votes neces- ^Orange.: ±. j;.' $<• ,.^/.-, ;• -v ~ bill, sponsored by Assembly Speaker aary to override, the governor's prom- *~he bill, sponsored by Assentb^ .Stanley Fink, (D-^rooklyri), ttiakes ISp ' ised veto. The bfll's sponsor, Assembly- Richard Connert (IXAlbany), ex- "wx breaks available for work began mfa Vincent Graber (D-Erie), aaid ' for mere than two y«arV the before July I960 andr completed before yesterday fae has not deckled whether whi<* a soldier >t«o^.tnao 'ii, ..•._•„• :- .T, • ..•- ...'..- T fir •' to^ven attempt an override. ^ ; • al»o^ gives those" persons ^

(9) SOURCE THE HERALD DISPATCH CITY AND STATE HUNTINGTON, WEST VIRGINIA

DATEOFPUBL. JUNE 3, 1982

Agent Orang1 e effect ? s studied •%Vft!M *•'* !—? . ;^^ -' ' i. • •*./ .' .".. _•' • .• /•.-.-/•» A. ;•-'-. "-* ,- ^^^^ i^ „'(•->•<» -a-ffx*- t," ..AT ;'. "''" • - . • L '-<"-*.. *" ; ta, a toxic byproduct of a chemical process The committee will meet in Columbus next' TOLEDO - A geneticist at the MedicalCol- used to create Agent Orange, Kurczynski said. week with a medical researcher from Wash-!; lege of Ohio said yesterday that Vietnam vet- In tests involving laboratory animals, he said, ington, who will pass on information about: erans and their families will be screened in dioxin has been shown to be responsible for Agent Orange and its effects. ,'; the state's Agent Orange program at the birth "defects, chromosome 'damage*' and" " Several national studies of the chemical are!: school, one of only two in the country. malignant changes in cells. ' * r being conducted, Kurczynski said, but the only": Dr. Thaddeus W. Kurczynski said the study Plans for the study are being formulated by other state conducting such a study is Texas. _, hopes to examine about 400 Vietnam veterans an advisory committee composed of doctors "Of those veterans who are identified as' and their families over a two-year period, and representatives of veterans' groups, having a long exposure to Agent Orange, we • financed by a $500,000 appropriation from the Kurczynski said. . . . ; ; ' • > will conduct complete medical histories and Legislature. There are about 160,000 Vietnam , The study will focus on the possible long- examinations, and certain laboratory tests, veterans in Ohio. ? > term genetic effects of the chemical, widely including chromosome tests," Kurczynski A bill authorizing the study was recently used during the war. -.-. said. "The families of these veterans, includ- signed into law by Gov. James A, Rhodes. • Kurczynski said four genetic centers at ing spouses and children, may also be stud- Kurczynski said data from military sources medical schools in Ohio will probably be .used ied." •• \- •. ' " , - • • will be used to identify those veterans who to conduct the research, including MCO, Case A key Objective, Kurczynski said, is to had both acute and long-term exposure to the Western Reserve in Cleveland, Wright State inform veterans who may have had chromo- defoliant. University in Dayton and Ohio State Universi- some damage of the potential dangers The compound includes the chemical diox- ty in Columbus.- :. • •-..• -- ..-.-., ; face in having children. , KLAHOMA CITY TIMES CITY AND STATE OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA DATE OF PUBL. THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1982 Page 1 & 2

.f?.wwniKwaitiB^3-»^ • <.,.•--...... -,...... ^ ... -.~, .yT',«s r*»s?.-;»ii : 1 r ; : i^™ - .rf^"n'f' .5««v-;" fe.,*v v. -'3£r*•"'••" ';**•' V' ^ •-^xtf.^Vr ««.'^t^t9rw*aj^* a •.~^,-r™'.^-^FiTA it:, lSSv©^SS5Wm •** r "• 'ifJa "f'Hlt-."^^fi,ttff^tf*, ^T'A4UAMI". jf.-v:.»»<.•«•«.'•^S * ^^••^>-S-*>^ijWs^' Lfi't^ftl' JLTf t* fir ., Uraiifir.., ... - .. e I • ;*.•?•'>! •. T"vV <**•;'' arising from exposure to Agent Orange. f W"» "• V« >4t i»" ^* • ^-^ /& SKH The department also must initiate an education ''slowe& program for doctors on detecting, diagnosing and ^•^'.••••"'^'^'•••Z V:': : treating symptoms associated with exposure to ,,,. ?,.,,,,.,.i!,,.>-,^- • By JefcaHepklM -.' ''• *. ,-± '•" . •-.••] the defoliant. -r Doa James, a Vietnam veteran who •believes Agent Orange contains a highly toxic chemical he's among thousands of Oklahoma men exposed known as dtoxin and is a blend of two herbicides, to the defoliant Agent Orange while in combat, is |2,4-p and 2,4,5-T. About 10.7 million gallons «f the disgruntled that the state Health Department I chemical were sprayed in Vietnam jungles from Jhasn't made more progress in its study of the con- 1965 to 1970 to make it harder for enemy troops to j troversia)herbicide, . :,'..' -, ;',-. find cover. * ' ' • xi . | But the state epidemiologist in charge of the Ok-. Since then, thousands of veterans claim to have | lahoma study says progress is being made, al- developed cancer, fathered children with birth de- > though slowly, and the next step in the monumen- tects or experienced other serious health prob- f tat task is creation of a commission to spearhead lems. •••••-: • .'.. - .-.-'-: ,-.'•• .. .:•'-': . f toe project The effects of the herbicide, and the exact num- J; "This is something that's just going to take ber of men exposed to it, are still under study by • time," epidemiologist Mark Roberts said. "We're various organizations.' •, ' '. - ' trying to cover all the bases because we definitely "The reason we're anxious for this study to get do not want to overlook one single aspect of this going is because more and more people are be- . project." • • -.• -..-, /- .-,:. >x - •• i coming concerned because people appear to be ex- In March, Oklahoma joinef at least seven other periencing the effects of Agent Orange," James states that have said theyfwould provide aid to said, i ' ...-,.,. ...-..,...,•••.. , ' -. veterans who have suffereQ Illness related to the : i Many Vietnam vets and their wives are postpon- chemical. ,•• i ^-( , ^'•.•••:•-':•'. -'' —"'. ing families until studies determine any genetic Oklahoma's bni requires the health department effects the chemical may have, he said, .. . to collect data o> the chemical and make that in- "It's been hell for our wives. They're the ones formation available 16 the state's Veterans, The' who're having to put up with our problems." data would also be used for'further'Agent Orange, : r Added Roberts: "It's very important for people study. - '( ' •$ "?•*•:/.'•*"£/ • '% '-f-'V' I to realize that we're working on the study. We're ^: At least five people will make up the Oklahoma trying to decide what the law requires and what I.&ommittee on Agent Orange, officials said. Three' th^ veterans want from this study. It's the only "win be Vietnairi veterans and two will be medical effective way of accomplishing results." 'experts. Roberts said they will provide input into!' •: Information required to be collected includes the overall health department studyv',; i * medical records from the Veterans Administra- After that, however, there's still a lot to do, offi-; tion Hospital and similar documents from private physicians who treated Vietnam veterans. Rob- A referral program also will be established un- erts could not estimate when the actual collection of information would begin. WESTERN PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU BERTHOUD. COLO, STEAMBOAT SPGS COLO

, 1982 tAgerit Orangd research continues K-..'. .*•* - ..:i'~'."''•*.:•-' '• '• -•-•"»•,.'.;,...;. , .- ... . ., v. In a continuing effort to help resolve, Agent' Orange-related activities in

' remaining Agent Orange questions, the, , which the VAi*v involve v d ; v,';-:^v •* .Veterans Administration has formed a *i '''-V-.'**ai ' ' ,£, "^ - • V *"' • ^'• •-' I new- office to deal exclusively with '" \ Th*e Veterans Administration should lead the way in resolving the Agent .Agent Orange matters. ,.; , ^i.,, . Orange question through our medical I the office will belieaded by Maurice' and scientific research projects and I LeVois, a Ph.D. candidate in health believe the formation of this new office ; psychology and -health systems is a step in the right direction," Hagel •r research at the University of California said. ; Medical Center, in San Francisco. • "It is my intention that this new off ice : LeVois will report directly to Charles become the single focal point for all VA ,, Hagel, V A deputy administratoc,,^ who*; Agent Orange matters and it provide . heads the Agent Orange Policy Coor- guidance and oversight for all of these • dinatingCommittee., . ,,,j, ^.-.i--*;'"* activities," Hagel continued, He pointed out that VA's Department • Hagel said creation of the ;Agent of Medicine and Surgery will continue Orange Research and Education Office to play a lead role in the VA's Agent " should ensure clear policy guidance Orange program and will work closely _ and solid management of the1 many with the new off ice. 'Monster Maker1

Parents Blame Agent? %C ' - .1-". .*,.''". . ^sls^ And they were angered again when n At 18 months, just as she was lems - headaches, weight loss, hear- » NEW YORK (AP) - Five years?the Veteran's Administration refused H beginning to walk, a blood clot that ing loss, nervousness and an ugly ^ after her daughter KerrjjLwas bonj to concede Agent Orange might be ; I formed during surgery permanently with multiple birth defect*, Maureen causing cancer and other illnesses in [ 1 damaged her brain — one of her rash called chloracne — matched Ryafrwas in a hospital waiting room veterans and birth defects in their I ! healthy organs — making her tempo- those found in people exposed to the when she noticed a two-paragraph children. • rarily bund. [Chemical. . . story in a health magazine. The VA has declined to pay for While she regained, sight, Kerry I Ryan's cousin, a career Army serv "Scientists Questioning; Herbicide related 'treatments. It was not until remains intellectually damaged. Her viceman who had' flown spray mi*- i 'Use in Vietnam," said the headline. 1979 that Congress mandated a study .speech Is impaired and she is con- lions in Vietnam, confirmed Ryan "It did something to me," Mrs. fined to a wheelchair. 'bad been in areas where the cbenuV of 18,000 veterans to learn the possi- cab were sprayed. 'Ryan, 34, recalls. "A light went ble ill effects of Agent Orange: No Dates, No Proms , '.( .""""" '• •'••' ''» .' - •. ' '• "When we finally came to the irre- Thus began the Ryan family's cra- The Ryans have told their story 'hi . The hardest part, says Mrs. Ryan, futable evidence that this is what 2 "Kerry, Agent Orange and an Ameri- is knowing "for the rest of her life happened, you felt like you'd been ted* against, Agent Orange, a defo- can Family," by Chicago journalist- •o 00 \iant the Army used when Michael she'll be in diapers and a wheelchair raped," says Mn. Ryan. CO H Q\ author Clifford Undecker, ; ... that never once will she go on a 0) 1-1 jtyan was in Vietnam in 1M7. It con- '' That anger has iiojt abated. It will •H Maltipte Birth Defects ' ', date, go to a prom, walk down thej is IH A ains . dioxin, r « ... highly toxic "' not until they get answers and relief u in aisle'on her father's arm." P« < c J '' •The heartache began Jan. 23,1971, i, from the chemical companies they >— 5 0 ing thumb and contracted fingers. < old. At what point' do we get some SOURC E U ^day, she stumbled across the word / Those were just the first of 22 room of Johns Hopkins Medical Cen- iexplanattons?" she asks. - ' ;\ -i:; Tli. ^teratrogen," and the horror of what btrth detects doctors would discover, ter in Baltimore. ' , '. jhe: and her husband believe hap- Ror three yean, Mrs. Ryan did 1 including duplicate reproductive ; pened to their family became clear. organs and a serious heart defect ' research.,;'" ,, /'. '• ^ ' .* "Hooked it up in the dictionary. But the Ryans welcomed their ' She was introduced to Paul Reu-1 It's a Greek word meaning monster. child. "She •nriches'our Jives wery 4ershan, a veteran convinced that the (roaker. I remetaber looking at Kerry day," Mrs. Ryan says. -.. . cancer which eventually killed him and* thinking Snonster makers'^ the v,|n'the first seven years of Kerry's, 'was caused by dioxin in chemicals he ''.' bastards*'" she says. • * ' v life, during which she had at least sprayed from his helicopter in Viet- -' Until then, the Long Island couple uneven major operations,- they paid an nam. He conducted a death-bed era- ' had accepted the handicaps of Kerry, sade to warn others. their ooJjr chili as an act of God. estimated $7«,000 for treatment - ' ', in a/Wtfop to insurance, payments. '. "' Effects in VJetaam >'""' '•'; ^ T .Ryan's pay as a Suffolk County She read case studies of ttose Orange,** Ry»n,^M, said, couldn't cover the Wlls. accidentally exposed and reports/ "When wfc fouwj pnt -. it was like all and.they were always broke, until*, from a Vietnamese doctor who'"'' 4ltA ' •Aftt^n^ t& ' *"*~'-' "" ~ •« -• * Ryan four yean ago took a job j charged that dioxin was causing mis- < carriages among Vietnamese women their home hi Stony Brook. and numerous birth deformities _ ^ ; Enorme** Expenses /• ;.,, there. , , J were angry that the govern-" 4 v Yearly medical expenses*' run "The clincher" came when she Ftnent hadnt warned Ryan about the ' about 14,000 to 95,000, including refjjzed h^ h$jpnd's medical prob- "'potential hazards of exposure; that' not Many was ,nearv death. . SOURCE SUNDAY EXAMINER/CHRONICLE CITY AND STATE ~ SAN FRANCISCO, CA I^P June C 1982 itorials \gent Orange ••••**•-•!«• j,-.sj!^0NSPJ(CIJQIJ&!'lEll£ rJil&t. jJbwiacftli in, pamphlet no longer offers ] Vr revised Agent Orange pamphlet distribut- veterans' *ny information beyond a cryptic ^i-«d by the Veterans Administration to Vietnam statement telling ttem that worries about "—veterans is the mention of any diseases or dioxin are based on ":i theory" that it may have ~~^lth symptoms l^a^ reports have linked with "caused"delayed health effects." There is no human exposure to the defoliant X ; ... further explanation or description of what the •-.:•• * •.<-.'- ••<•: ••>'•• ^v'. -• .?; '•>.-,•!' •c'.'-.r •?•"'»' '-' effects might be. ", The omission is indefensible, since veterans; who ask the government about Agent Orange The pamphlet does not note, as the old do so specifically out of concern for their publication did, that humans who have been exposed to dioxin during industrial accidents have developed a specific skin condition in the pa*, the booklet given to veterans known as chloracne, which closely resembles who asked for information regarding Agej|t the common form of acne." Nor does the new Orange exposure explained that while no facts iwoklet acknowledge the reports of headaches, had been established Unking the defoliant to blood disorders, nausea, liver dysfunction and health damage,' dioxin, a toxic Agent Orange nerve damage among people exposed to dioxin ingredient, has been associated with a number — things that Vietnam veterans reasonably of diseases and health disorders — which were could be expected to want to know. . .. . dutifully listed. ;^J; v -.*-,:& All of this takes an ironic twist Precisely because of what the ew booklet has omitted, additional interest drawn to the Agent Orange issue. ; .-*v~- This interest also is fueled by knowledge that the makers of tlie herbicide compounds 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T have described Agent Orange, in federal court documents, as highly toxic and dangerous, and disclaim any liability for injuries resulting from the military's use of the product- Certainly the Agent Orange issue will not go away because o some editing on the government's part oi a few unpleasant refer- ences. A great many individuals who served in Vietnam, where the substance was sprayed extensively by UJS. ft rces to defoliate forests, still are apprehensive about its possible long- -jterm effects. They piiid a personal price that ' should be more than sufficient to insure that then* concerns will be respected by the United* States government Perhaps, whoever has been trimming down ; that pamphlet shouh be trimmed down in the mattei of authority, to the iequivalent of buck private in the bureaucracy. &tJ ~^f. *, - • .'.,.,, 4 , „ - ';-

\ .1 yojRK TIMES MONDAY» ; JUNE r,

BALTIMORE, to* f -—-»—. *e Vietnam «tar llore fliaa 9i nDbosof AMot toVietoun to- TtoBaftimon oil ins dtectntinaed after Array tins **neA ct frett petootiil for long- term, fenuaeat •ootagical damue. NrrecordsmtvocouD. ~ •nrWapotaBttaUy one* k mm «ur-

Who hashtanaSrS Afteat Bh» md •wtedthat the and other ous thetrtfcJeiald. ^ Bot of Dow Chemical de> llTB.tfaedealhntirdDetbcan. tended Tordon. "We (eel It's safe," said to Cherokee Court/ wtt mO beJow ftobert W. Chartton, ai company spokes- tamans." said Weawu MuUiMd, » te- ir*a Dow scientist. "TWrte a«tt to three moretcndc. .Nprth Carolina's Depa Hainan Resooroes has assembled a (ronp of tcglcolpgtott and e UK),« of 171 lists to study cancer deaths taCherokfte •ndllaoonooiinties. Scientists wfll also take soli %p* water to see whether the chemical has seeped feato weD water, The Sun reported, . wouinMi i>amok«y tabor*. •jry of Frwfcrtck , "ttyoa took at the tissue slides from [the rodents ted ptctoraja. any patboio- Chicago Tribune, Monday, June /. section i

Agent White linked to cancer in N^Caw>lma1 «—* . • . : • • . '••''!•• • . . >.-. BALTIMORE WP)-A defoliant the U.S. Army stop- sprayed in Vietnam from 1965 to 1971. The chemical's Scientists will take sod and water samplis to determine ped using in Vietnam because of its potential for en- use was discontinued after Army scientists who studied <* if the chemical has sstped Intowsll water{the news- vironmental damage is suspected of causing an increase several military herbicides determined it posed the'' paper reported. •'**: ' •''' ' -«*':-' -:'•*-.. r ..; in 'cancer deaths in western North -Carolina, according "greatest potential... for causing long-term permanent Until 1979, Cherokee County's cancer death rate was'" 1o the Baltimore Sunday Sun. ecological damage," the newspaper said. well below the national average. In W73,» of 141 deaths The Sun reported that scientists will study cancer The Army scientists' report said was ui were attributed to the disease. ' ' • ' >' . / ' cases in two western North Carolina counties to deter- potentially harmful herbicide once it enters surface and By 1979, the .county had U» state's fourtMilghest mine if a recent increase in the disease was caused by. ground-water systems," the Sun said. cancer mortality rate, with 45 of 174 deaths blamed On , now sold by the Dow Chemical Co. under Vietnam veterans who were exposed to Agent Orange, the disease, according to state figures. In 1960,46 of 171/i the trade name Tordon. " Agent Blue and Agent White have charged that the deaths were the result of* cancer. «.*:•-. * ,; & .VJ.K^ the herbicide, which contains the chemical picloram, defoliants cause cancer, genetic damage and other ail- hat been widely used since 1965 in Cherokee County by ments. Geneticist Ruth Shearer, former program, director'of H timber companies, the Tennessee Valley Authority and Dow Chemical officials defend the safety of Tordon. a Issaquah, Wash., research center financed by the ; the U.8. Forest Service, the newspaper reported. "We feel it's safe," company spokesman Robert W. National Cancer Institute, has interviewed more than a'". • . "There's no doubt in my mind that picloram is « Charlton told the Sun. . • . , , • dozen people suspected of being poisoned by the chemi-:: carcinogen," said Dr. Mehrin D. Reuber, former direc- "Picloram is completely safe for humans . . . table cal in four states, the Sun said. ' v f ,•'... .f tor of the Experimental Pathology Laboratory of the salt is three times more toxic," said Wendell Mulllson, a '"What I'm seeing with picloram poisonings are pat- Frederick Cancer Research Center to Frederick, Md. retired Dow research scientist. . , ..,-•'• terns of chronic symptoms, particularly swollen Joints,"', i "If you look at the tissue slides from the rodents fed said Shearer, who interviewed suspected victims in', THE NORTH CAROLINA Department of Hutu Re- West Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama and Montana. '. ,'r picloram, any pathologist could see it causes malignant sources has assembled a task force of toxicologists and "But others include headaches, ^problems with vision, tumors," Reuber told the newspaper. epidemiologists to studjt cancer death rates in Cherokee weakness and fatigue, skin ailments, enlarged liver, MORE THAN B mOlton gattoiu of Agent White were and Macon Counties, located near the Tennessee border. respiratory difficulties and kidney damage," she, added. TEXAS PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU DALLAS Established 1910

Houston, TX _. Post J°N 7 *" (Cir. D. 325,085) (Cir. Sat. 349,105) (Cir. Sun. ,386,640) . Herbicide suspected in deaths (ORE (APT -PA defoliant the U.S. Army sng In Vietnam because ot its potential (or ecological damage is suspected of causing an increase . in cancer deaths in western North Carolina, according to the Baltimore Sunday Sun. The Sun reported scien- tists will study cancer cases In two western North Carolina counties to determine if a recent increase in the disease was caused by Agent White, now sold by Dow Chemical Co. under the trade name Tordon. More than 5 million gallons ot Agent White were sprayed in Vietnam between 1965 and 19T1. •: CHRONICLE CITY AND STATE SAN FRANCISCO, CA DATE OF PUBL. June 7. 1082 Deaths that the defoliants cause cancer, genetic damage and -'A defoliant the U.S. Army stopped using in other ailments. ; ; - , .1 Vietnam because of :its potential for ecological * Dow Chemical of f teals defend Tordon.' "We feel it's damage is suspected of causing an increase tn safey* company spokesman Robert W. Charlton said. cancer deaths in Western North Carolina, according to the Baltimore Sunday Sun. • Cenetkist Ruth Shearer has interviewed more than a dozen people suspected of being poisoned by the i The ^f'epWtef tljaf tclghtists will study 'cancer 'V chemical in four states, the Sun said,, cases in two western North Carolina counties *to * . determine whether a recent increase in the disease was ^ ,"Whit I'm seeing with picloram poisonings are caused by Agent White, now sold by Dow Chemical Co. patterns of chronk symptoms," said Shearer, who under the trade name Tordon. ,*'" interviewed suspected victims in West Virginia, Ten- nessee, Alabama and Montana. Hie herbicide, which contains the chemical picloram, has been widely used since 1965 in Cherokee - County by timber companies, the Tennessee Valley Authority and the U.S. Forest Service, the newspaper reported: .;• , -.""'V ' : -•'v,:> ' "There's no doubt in my. mind that picloram is a carcinogen," said Dr. Melvin D. Reuber, former direc- tor of the Experimental Pathology Laboratory .of the Frederick Cancer Research Center in Frederick, Md. More than 5 million gallons of Agent White were sprayed in Vietnam between 1965 and 1971. The chemical's use was discontinued after Army scientists who studied several military herbicides determined it posed the "greatest potential... for causing tong4erm permanent ecological damage," the newspaper said.. Vietnam veterans who were exposed to Agent Orange, Agent Blue and Agent White have charged TEXAS PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU DALLAS Established 1910 Houston, Texas Chronicle (Cir. 400,679)

of increasing cancer deaths BALTIMORE (AP) -A defoliant manufactured by Macon counties; located near the .Tennessee border. ow Chemical Co. which the U.& Army stopped using in Scientists will take soil and water samples to determine .fVietnam because of its potential for ecological damage if the chemical has seeped into well .water, the news- ps suspected of causing an increase1 iff cancer deaths in, paper reported. {;,. . ,:,..:, . ^western North Carolina, .,•,' ~HV .'. •.. *••••• >>;• * •- --yiu."(JntiwJ an1979, , Cheroke^neiwuee vxHimCounty'y s cancer oeaideatnh rate was i!Tbe Baltimore Sunday Sun reported flat scientists; well below the National average. In 1973,26 of 181 deaths ! Will study cancer cases in two western North Carolina1» were attrftuted to the disease, -: ^counties to determine if a recent increase in the disease" f By 1S79,, tbe- county had the state's/ fourth highest jwas caused by Agent White, now sold by Dow under.tbe*; cancer mortality rate, with 45 of 174 deaths blamed on %adenameTonton. • . i M' W disease, according to state figures. In 1980,46 of 171 V The herbicide, which contains the chemical pJcloram, ideaths were the result of cancer. .._•".• . 'Sps- been widely used since 1965 in Cherokee County by[ .U:.-j..,«v-.-.-. .^ ' • • ••- ' ' <. . • •• fflmber companies, the Tennessee Valley Authority-an** ' •---rrr~- jthe U.S. Forest Service, the newspaper reported. ? fTberfe"* no doubt in my mind that pkloram is- a -carcinogen," said Dr. Melvin D. Reuber, former direc- Ivlor of the Experimental Pathology Laboratory of the •••Frederick Cancer Research Center in Frederick, Md. '*; «ff you look at the.tissue slides from the rodents fed "|*3oram; any pathologist could see it causes malignant '," Reuber told the newspaper, than 5 million gallons of Agent White were in Vietnam between 1965 and 1971. The chemi- caTs,use was discontinued after Army scientists, who studied several military herbicides, determined it posed the "greatest potential for causing long-term permanent 1 ecological damage," the newspaper said. < • i The Army scientists' report said pictoram was "a1 'potentially harmful herbicide once it enters surface and ground-water systems," the Sun said. » Vietnam veterans who were exposed to Agent Orange!, Agent Blue and .Agent White have charged that the defoliants cause cancer, genetic damage and other ail- ments. - . . , Dow officals defend the safety of Tordon. "We feel it's *safe," company*pokesman Robert W. Charlton told the Sun. , . "Picloram is completely safe for humans, table salt is three times more toxic," said Wendell Mullison, a re- tired Dow research scientist., ' ; ', ^' ." The North Carolina Department of Hun^an Resources has assembled a task force of toxicbtogists and epidemi- " to .study cancer death rates in Cherokee and NION CITY ANGRASD STATS E VALLEY, CA

DATE OF PUBU. June 11, 1982

HO Increasing numbers of Vietnam (AP) -,& group of aHeged victims In hospitals in miscarriages ' and birth 'American war veterans on a Hand, Tay Nlnh and in tW« deformities were recorded'at .recent return visit to Vietnam dty, once known as Saigon. Ho Chi Utah City's Tu Du were shown blind children, They either had been exposed Hospital during and after the ^deformed infants and a basin to the defoliant ar, were defoliant's use, but the K full of • grotesquely shaped children of fathers or mothers statistics, according to the human fetuses preserved in who had been exposed. ,.: Vietnamese, are incomplete. -formaldehyde. J-r ^, ... The Vietnamese said their The delegation from the ( The Vietnamese said these lack of qualified researchers Vietnam Veterans of .horrors were .products of and equipment, along with-the America, a private group, Agent Orange, but admitted problem -of exploring presented a proposal which ' that they have' been unable to something that occurred more would allow UJ5, and other establish scientifically a link than i decade ago, made the foreign scientists to do im- to the defoliant used by US. inquiry extremely difficult.'. partial research in Vietnam. forces during the Vietnam ; They did provide a few Vietnamese officials from a statistics. At Hanoi's Viet-Duc government agency in- Due Lang, a key , Hospital, doctors said a group vestigating the consequences researcher on A^ent Orange, of 956 veterans exposed to of chemical warfare la said the Vietnamese1 *navT Agent -Orange had been Vietnam said they would established only a studied and 3.14 percent of respond to the WA proposal "hypothesis". relating ex- their children suffered through Hanoi's delegation at posure to dioxin — a toxic congenital deformities. «ln the United Nations. component of the defoliant — another group of 993 North In the meantime, the to what be said was a "very Vietnamese who had never, Vietnamese said they high" increase in birth defects been to South Vietnam where welcomed tests in the United in! children of communist the defoliant was used, only States on soil and Wood veteransofthewar. .21 percent of their children samples taken in Vietnam. •', The Vietnamese said the had such birth defects. The WA and other veterans,

groups in the United States apparently triggered by U.S. : have focused on Agent Orange charges that Vietnamese since 1978, when the Veterans troops now use toxic Administration began getting chemicals against guerrillas complaints -from Vietnam inLaos and Cambodia. veterans of cancer,, aver The WA delegation said ailments, neurological that in its talks with Viet- disorders, loss of sexual namese doctors and resear- potency, skin lesions and birth chers, there was very little ; defects. Some veterans linked political rhetoric but rather an t these problems to exposure to emphasis on Agent Orange as •Agent Orange, and many a serious medical and \ lawsuits have been filed. humanitarian problem that ". There has been no needs to be solved. agreement within the Whether Hanoi would use a American scientific com- joint U.S.-Vietnamese in- munity on the effects of the vestigation for propaganda or f defoliant Some studies are to how the United States .the works, including one on government — which has no jibe health of flight crews and diplomatic ties with Vietnam '.support personnel in the UJ5, — would react to this effort is "Air Force's "Ranch Hand" unclear. ' • *•.... [operation,'in which large Communist Vietnam has no areas of Vietnam were independent scientific com- •sprayed with the defoliant munity which could challenge^ • Vietnam recently stepped its own government, fop its criticism of the United (States for waging chemical [warfare in Vietnam, attacks SOURCE TIMES CITY AND STATE ELY, NV DATE OF PUBL. June 11, 1982 extensi "

HO CHt MINH CITY, Vietnam (AP)-A group '$i,y ^nerican - war. t»eir lack of qualified veterans on a recent 'researchers and equip- ind' other foreign return visit to Vietnam ment, along with the socentists to do impartial were shown blind problem of exploring reseacch in Vietnam. children, deformed in- something that occurred ^ Vietnamese officials fants and a basin fuB fit more than a decade ago, from Ja government grote squely shaped made the Inquiry ex-x agency-hvesitgating the human fetuses preserved tremely difficult V consequences of chemical : in formaldehyde. >' They did provide a few warfare in Vietnam said The Vietnamese said statistics. >At Hanoi's they would respond to the these horrors were Viet-Duc Hospital, WA proposal through products of Agent doctors saida group of 956 Hanof s delegation at the Orange, but admitted that veterans exposed to i Unted Nations. ttiey have been unable to Agent Orange had been In me meantime, the establish scientifically a studied and 3.14 percent Vietnamese said they Ink to the defoliant used of their children suffered welcomed tests in the by US. forces during congential deformities. In •United States on soil and Vietnam War. • • another group of 593 Dr. Tom Due Lang, a .North Vietnamese who . key researcher on Agent had never been to South ( . Orange, said the Viet- Vietnam where .the | ' blood samples taken irt Ofange, and "* namese have established defoliant was used, only ! •Vietnam. ' ('; ' 'lawsuits have been ffe*. only a "hypothesis" Jtl percent of ^their_ \ . The WA and other I . relating exposure to children had such birth | veterans groups ii the.; •inhere., has beei^no dioxin-ia toxic.'com- defects. •••*•'- fc.C - •:•;' i United States ^have agreement with inVthe ponent 6f the defoliant— Increasing numbers of * ( ^focused on Agent Orange ' 'American scientific to what he said was a miscarriages and birth j since 1978, when the community on the effects "very high" increase in deformities werev Veterans Administration of the defoliant Sbtae birth defects hi children recorded at Ho Chi Minh began getting complaints studies are, in the works, of communist veterans of OjtyV^Tu Vu Hospital^ from Vietnam veterans of including .one on the the war. ' "' during-*-" and after the cancer, liver, ailments, Health of flight crewa^and The Vietnamese said defoliant's use, but the ' neurological disorders, . support personnel in'the the US. veterans saw or statistics, according to k»ss of sexual potency, • iOJS. Air Force's "Ra)ich talked to alleged victims I thf Vietnamese, are skin: Ijtsions and birth jHa$4" : operation,^ in ki hospitals in Hanoi; Tay rnicoraolete. -• -.-'• -"^v-. ••: defects. Some veterans which -large areaft of Ninh and in this city, once [-«'Che delegation fromihe | Inked (hose problems to , Vietnam were sprayed •Vietnam Veterans of known as Saigon. They 1 exposure .to Agent, with the defoliant. | either had been exposed Artierica, a private group, i to the defoliant or were presented a proposal I children of fathers or ':i--,«»ij mothers who had been 'exposed. . ' .' . ' SOURCE Evening Tribune CITY AND STATE San Diego. CA DATE OF PUBL. June 11. IQfi? Vietnamese cite Agent Orange for deformed children • •• ^^ - ' **^ . . . . . «.l..A*l'MHi*«t«f Hudr oMMlWII tad , Vietnam (AP) — A high" incmae in birth defects in children group of 9S6 veterans exposed to Agent birth defects. j group oi American war on a re- •; of communist veterans of the war. Orange had been studied and 3.14 percent The delegation from the Vietnam Veter- i • cent return visit to were shown The Vietnamese said the US. veterans of their children suffered congenital de- ans of America, presented a proposal blind children, deformed infants and a . saw or talked to alleged victims in hospi- formities. In another group of 59S North which would allow US. and other foreign full of grotesquely shaped human tals in Hanoi, Tay Ninh and in this city, Vietnamese who had never been to South scientists to do impartial research. yfetuaes nwt«ved in formaldehyde. once known as Saigon. They either had .Vietnam where the defoliant was used, The Yietnamese gaid these horror* wen been exposed to the defoliant or were chil- products of Agent Orange, bat admitted • dren of fathers or mothers who had been -ttatfcwhave beenunable to establish,' ^ ,„_, - - «^. . ^ . ., IsdentlfWly a link to the defoliant used by ^ Th» VJs^iamsttf said their lack of qnali- fUJSLforcM during the Vietnam War. > fied researchers and equipment, along with 1 Dr. tn Dnc Lang, atof ttsaan*er%4*§ proWam of exploring something that f Agent Orange, said UMS Vktnames* have occnrred mort than a decade ago, made - ' - - ..--... jej. thejnquiry extremely difficult cponre to diozn — a toxie cwnp»n«t off They did prtride a few statistics. At the

June 11, 1982 ' Argus Leader, Sioux Falls, S.D. Friday, June 11,1982 World letnamese Orange"

By DENIS D. GRAY ;; Vietnam veterans of cancer, liver •• Associated Frew ••••$• .; ailments, neurological disorders, Hd CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam •*- 1 Increasing numbers loss of sexual potency, skin lesions group of American war veterans of fniscarriages and and birth defects. Some veterans n a recent return visit to Vietnam linked these problems to exposure were shown blind children, de- , birth deformities were to Agent Orange, and many law- formed infants and a basin full of recorded at Ho Chi suits have been filed. grotesquely shaped human fetuses There has been no agreement preserved in formaldehyde. Minn City's Tu Du within the American scientific com- The Vietnamese said these hor- Hospital during and munity on the effects of the defo- rors were products of Agent Or- liant. Some studies are in the ange, but admitted that they have after the defoliant's works, including one on the health been unable to establish scientifi- use!;. ^ •-',"-• of flight crews and support person- a link to the defoliant used by nel in the U.S. Air Force's "Ranch, forces during the Vietnam Hand" operation, in which large §. ton Due Lang, a key re- areas of Vietnam were sprayed defoliant was used, only .21 percent with the defoliant. ' t archer on Agent Orange, said the of their children bad such birth de- ' jfetnamese have established only a fects. . * .... r. "Vietnam recently stepped up its 1 pjxtthesis relating exposure to Increasing numbers of miscar- criticism of the United States for < oiin — a toxic component of the riages and birth deformities were waging chemical warfare in Viet- i tfoliant — to what he said was a recorded at Ho Chi Minn City's Tu nam, attacks apparently triggered \N6ry high increase in birth defects Du Hospital during and after the by U.S. charges that Vietnamese "children of communist veterans defoliant's use. but the statistics, troops now use toxic chemicals Itjie'war. - according to the Vietnamese, are against guerrillas in Laos and Cam- Vietnamese said the U.S. vet- incomplete. bodia. saw or talked to alleged vie- The delegation from the Vietnam The WA delegation said that in in hospitals in Hanoi, Tay Ninh Veterans of America, a private its talks with Vietnamese doctors ict in this city, once known as Sal- group, presented a proposal that and researchers, there was very lit- n: They either had beerexposed would allow U.S. and other foreign tle political rhetoric but rather an the defoliant or were children of scientists to do impartial research emphasis on Agent Orange as a se- ifljers or mothers who had been in Vietnam. rious medical and humanitarian wed. Vietnamese officials from a gov- problem that needs to be solved. ie Vietnamese said their lack of ernment agency investigating the ikUfied researchers and equip- consequences of cbe'mical warfare Whether Hanoi would use a joint , along with the problem of ex- in Vietnam said they would respond U.S.-Vietnamese investigation for ig something that occurred to the WA proposal through propaganda purposes or how the than a decade ago, made the Hanoi's delegation at the United United States government — which ry extremely difficult. '" Nations. has no diplomatic ties with Vietnam ey did provide a few statistics. In the meantime, the Vietnamese — would react to such an effort is Hanoi's Viet-Duc Hospital, doc- said they welcomed tests in the unclear. !• said a group of 956 veterans United States on soil and blood sam- Communist Vietnam has no inde- to Agent Orange had been ples taken in Vietnam. pendent scientific community led and 3.14 percent of their The WA and other veterans which could challenge its own gov- Idren suffered congenital defor- groups in the United States have ernment, and even Hospitals have les. In another group of 593 focused on Agent Orange since 1978, political commissars to keep the Vietnamese who had never when the Veterans Administration staff on the right ideological' to South Vietnam where the began getting complaints from track. LEDGER CITY AND STATE ANTIOCH, CA DATE OF PUBL. June 13. 1982 Agent Orange left its */ f By DENIS D. GRAY HO OH! MINH CITY, Vietnam (AP) —A group of American war veterans on a recent return visit to Vietnac "ere shown blind children, deformed in- fants and a basin full of grotesquely shaped human mark in fetuses preserved in formaldehyde. The Vietnamese said these horrors were products of Agent Orange, but admitted that they have been unable to establish scientifically a link to the defoliant used by UJS. forces during the Vietnam Vietnam, too War. Dr. Ton Due Lang, a key researcher on Agent > Vietnamese officials from a government agency Orange, said the Vietnamese have established only investigating the consequences of chemical war- . a "hypothesis" relating exposure to dioxin — a tox- fare in Vietnam said they would respond to the WA ic component of the defoliant — to what he said was proposal through Hanoi's delegation at the United a "very high" increase in birth defects in children Nations. '/ of communist veterans of the war. In the meantime, the Vietnamese said they The Vietnamese said the U.S. veterans saw or welcomed tests in the United States on soil and talked to alleged victims in hospitals in Hanoi, Tay blood samples taken in Vietnam. Ninh and in this city, once known as Saigon. They i The WA and other veterans groups in the United either had been exposed to the defoliant or were States have focused on Agent Orange since 1978, children of fathers or mothers who had been expos- when the Veterans Administration began getting •ed. complaints from Vietnam veterans of cancer, liver The Vietnamese said their lack of qualified ailments, neurological disorders, loss of sexual researchers and equipment, along with the problem potency, skin lesions and birth defects. Some of exploring something that occurred more than a veterans linked these problems to exposure to •decade ago, made the inquiry extremely difficult. Agent Orange, and many lawsuits have been filed. , They did provide a few statistics. At Hanoi's Viet- Duc Hospital, doctors said a group of 956 veterans exposed to Agent Orange had been studied and 3.14 There has been no agreement within the American scientific community on the effects of the defoliant. Some studies are in the works, including Increasing numbers one on the health of flight crews and support per- sonnel in the U.S. Air Force's "Ranch Hand" opera- of miscarriages and tion, in which large areas of Vietnam were sprayed with the defoliant. Vietnam recently stepped up its criticism of the birth deformities United States for waging chemical warfare in Viet- nam, attacks apparently triggered by U.S. charges were recorded ... that Vietnamese troops now use toxic chemicals against guerrillas in Laos and Cambodia. during and after The WA delegation said that in its talks with Vietnamese doctors and researchers, there was very little political rhetoric but rather an emphasis the defoliant's use on Agent Orange as a serious medical and humanitarian problem that needs to be solved. percent of their children suffered congenital defor- j Whether Hanoi would use a Joint U.S.-Vietnaniese mities. In another group of 593 North Vietnamese vrho had never been to South Vietnam where the defoliant was used, only .21 percent of their children had such birth defects. Increasing numbers of miscarriages and birth deformities were recorded at Ho Chi Minh City's Tu 4Du Hospital during and after the defoliant's use, but the statistics, according to the Vietnamese, are in- Complete. > The delegation from the Vietnam Veterans of America, a private group, presented a proposal which would allow U.S. and other foreign scientists to do impartial research in Vietnam. investigation for propaganda or how the United ward L. Cooperman, a physicist from California States government — which has no diplomatic ties State University at Fullerton, heads a group called with Vietnam — would react to this effort is the U.S. Committee for Scientific Cooperation with unclear. ! Vietnam and was in Hanoi when the WA delega- Communist Vietnam has no independent scien- tion visitpd. tific community which could challenge its own Another member of the group, Dr. James Dwyer, government, and even hospitals have political com- of New York State University at Stonybrook, travel- missars to keep the staff on the right ideological ed to the heavily defoliated province of Tay Ninh to track. help write a questionnaire which the Vietnamese ' A few American scientists have come to Vietnam said would be used to gather statistical data on the in recent years for Agent Orange research. Dr. Ed- defoliant's effects. SOURCE POST-DISPATCH CITY AND STATE PITTSBURG, CA DATE OF PUBL. June 15, 1982 Orange R They did provide a few : HO CHI MINH CITY, [statistics. At Hanoi's Vietnam (AP) — A IViet-Duc Hospital, doc- group of American war effecti s on veterans on a recent i veterans exposed to return visit to Vietnam i Agent Orange had been were shown blind studied and 3.14 percent children, deformed in- of their children suffered fants and a basin full of , congenital deformities. Vietnamese grotesquely shaped In another group of 593 human fetuses preserv- North Vietnamese who • ed in formaldehyde. had never been to South The Vietnamese said Vietnam where the .these horrors were pro- defoliant was used, only ducts of Agent Orange, '.21 percent of their but admitted that they children had such birth have been unable to defects. establish scientifically a Increasing numbers of link to the defoliant used miscarriages and birth by U.S. forces during tte deformities were record- Vietnam War. —t ed at Ho Chi Minh City's posal through Hanoi's ailments, neurological Dr. Ton Due Lang, a Tu Du Hospital during delegation at the United disorders, loss of sexual key researcher on Agent .and after the defoliant's Nations. potency, skin lesions and Orange, said the Viet- In the, meantime, the birth defects. Some namese have established Vietnamese said they veterans linked these only a "hypothesis"! 1 welcomed tests in the problems to exposure to relating exposure to use, but the statistics, United States on soil and Agent Orange, and many , dioxin — a toxic compo- according to the Viet- blood samples taken in lawsuits have been filed. nent of the defoliant — to namese, are incomplete. Vietnam. There has been no what he said was a "very The /delegation from The WA and other agreement within the high" increase in birth the Vietnam Veterans of veterans groups in the American scientific defects in children of America, a private United States have community on the ef- communist veterans of group, presented a pro- focused on Agent Orange fects of the defoliant. the war. posal which would allow since 1978, when the Some studies are in the The Vietnamese said UJS. and other foreign Veterans Administration works, including one on the U.S. veterans saw or scientists to do impartial began getting com- the health of flight crews talked to alleged victims research in Vietnam. plaints from Vietnam and support personnel in in hospitals in Hanoi, Vietnamese officials veterans of cancer, liver the U.S. Air Force's Tay Ninh and in this city, from a government once known as Saigon. agency investigating the They either had been ex- consequences of posed to the defoliant or chemical warfare in were children of fathers Vietnam said they would or mothers who had been respond to the VVA pro- exposed. The Vietnamese said their lack of qualified researchers and equip- ment, along with the pro- blem of exploring something that occurred more than a decade ago, made the inquiry ex- tremely difficult. "Ranch •Hand" opera- Vietnamese doctors and Communist Vietnam Committee for Scientific tion, ill which large researchers, there was has no independent Cooperation with Viet- areas of Vietnam were very little political scientific community nam and was in Hanoi sprayed "with the rhetoric but rather an which could challenge its when the W A delegation, defoliant. emphasis "*'n Agent own government, and visited. Vietnam recently step- Orange as «' serious even hospitals have Another member of ped up its criticism of the medical and political commissars to the group, Dr. James United States for waging humanitarian problem keep the staff on the Dwyer, of New York chemical warfare in that needs to be solved. right ideological track. State University at Vietnam, attacks ap- Whether Hanoi would A few American scien- Stonybrook, traveled to parently triggered by use a Joint U.S.- tists have come to Viet- the heavily defoliated UJS. charges that Viet- Vietnamese investiga- nam in recent years for province of Tay Nlnh to namese troops now use tion for propaganda or Agent Orange research, help write a question- toxic chemicals against how the United States Dr. Edward L. Cooper- naire which the Viet- guerrillas in Laos and government—which has man, a physicist from namese said would be us- Cambodia. no diplomatic ties with California State Univer- ed to gather statistical The WA delegation Vietnam — would react sity at Fullerton, heads a data on the defoliant's ef- said that in its talks with to this effort is unclear. group called the U.S. fects. SOURCE .EDGER CITY AND STATE , ANTIOCH, CA

DATE OF PUBL. June 15, 1982 Couple crusade against "'j) "*"_ ' . r- • "Kerry: Agent Orange and ah American Fami- ly," by Clifford careless use Ltnedecker, with Michael and Maureen Ryan, St. Martin's Press, New York, 240 pages, hardcover, $12.95. "of chemicals magazines. health problems and his ByJOHNLOVEJOY I daughter's birth defects Other birth defects in- When she saw a Jim- Ledger Staff Writer r Pmy Breslin article in 1978 had anything to do with • Michael and Maureen { clude a malformed left chemicals or Vietnam. arm and hand. She does about the death of Paul Ryan of New York have Reutershan, a young But today he is sure an 11-year-old daughter not nave the ability to that Kerry's injuries are control her bladder and veteran who blamed his they consider to be as terminal cancer on his the result of what he says much a .victim of the must wear diapers. She amounts to "a felony Vietnam War as any was born without a rec- exposure to Agent tum, and had to be given Orange, it convinced her assault." soldier who fought there. that her husband's He says his doubts \ Their child, Kerry, , a colostomy — an opera- about Agent Orange 1 tion that provides an severe body acne and' was born in late January gradual hearing loss 1971 with 22 birth • opening in the abdomen i through which wastes were caused by the U.S. defects. The parents are government's use of convinced Kerry's con- ' can pass into a bag the. vanished after meeting patient wears — to live. chemicals in Vietnam, with Yannacone for six genital deformities and and his exposure to disabilities are due to Kerry, who reached hours and reading a Michael's exposure to puberty' at the age of 8, them. class-action suit the at- Agent Oranee while he also has duplicate sex And as she looked over torney was preparing to was fighting in Vietnam. organs and faces future at Kerry in her file on behalf of veterans Kerry~~na3 'been at .surgery to correct that wheelchair, Maureen exposed to the powerful death's door many times defect. Ryan burst into tears as herbicide, which con- during her short life. Yet, when the Daily the horrifying possibility tained dioxin, the most She suffered brain Ledger interviewed her began to dawn on her potent poison known to damage during one of 1 parents last 'month in that her daughter's birth man. Three ounces in her innumerable opera- . ^ San Francisco,her defects also were tions. She went tem- mother referred to chemically induced. porarily blinded by those ; Kerry as "a triumph, brain injuries, which ' i She's got a very sar- ' castic sense of humor." When she regained also has made it impossi- control of herself, she ble for her to walk. For a Michael Ryan said, called Victor Yan- while it was feared she "Every day when she nacone, a Long Island at- • would never talk again. wakes up, she is happy to be alive." torney, who later called Her vision has now her husband. returned, though it is im- The Ryans and their paired. She has begun daughter have gone Michael Ryan, who learning to read, and can through more pain and has been a policeman now understand first- torture in the past 10 since 1969 and is not grade level books. She years than most families given to flights of fancy, ' can talk, but has a . ever do. For years, they was unconvinced that his speech impediment. ' thought that Kerry's pro- blems and the burdens they created for the rest of the family were simp- ly a result of God's will. But Maureen began to ' have other suspicions I after reading about Agent Orange in :' newspapers and New York City's water and Journalist, Clifford They tell, for instance, all her friends are in' supply could kill the en- Linedecker. It also about the night they met wheelchairs, so we can't tire population of that cV -"touches on the plights of .another Vietnam transport them. ty, according to on% father families and in- veteran and his wife, "She just sits on the estimate. ". ' individuals whose livM-*- who also had a daughter lawn during hot summer Ryan came to the con- have 'bfeen ruine«£';*ith multiple birth days, watching the world clusion that he and his allegedly by chemicals 'defects. The Ryans say goby." •„ •* fellow-soldiers were that were used in Viet- one of the little girl's Ma uteeJi adds, poisoned in Vietnam by nam, and, in one case, hands looks almost ex- however, "Kerry is only the U.S. government — Korea. actly like their own one child out of } find government officials The book alleges that daughter's malformed thousands. What started ' 'Had known the dangers those who obeyed their left hand. as a Vietnam veterans' '• but had not bothered to government's orders to The deformities of issue is now a human t .warn anyone, he claims. fight an undeclared war other Vietnam veterans', issue." i. "To this day I in Southeast Asia also children are almost cer- She points to the haven't heard from the are victims of their tainly due to their documented cases of .government," he says. government's disregard fathers having been deformed children and "I haven't filed to be for them. sprayed by chemicals, incidences of cancer and tested for Agent Orange The Ryans have made the Ryans assert. other diseases suffered ' exposure because it's in- it their avocation to talk Maureen Ryan says of by returned Vietnam cumbent on the govern- about their experiences. Kerry, "She'll never get veterans — 'and by ment to notify the 2.5 But it obviously is not married and never know civilians who live or million U.S. veterans easy for them to do so, what it's like to make have lived near toxic who were exposed. I pro- and as they speak, they love to a man." dump sites, such as Love bably wouldn't even frequently reach out to Michael Ryan says, Canal in New York. know about it now if my touch each other and "She's 100 percent "If somebody doesn't wife hadn't told me clasp each others' hands dependent on another do something," says >utit." as they recount their person. She feeds Maureen Ryan, "it is the For the past four struggles, their herself, but you've got to age of mutants. years, the Ryans have daughter's suffering and be there when she's Her husband adds, been spending their the sorrow and pain they eating. She has no "The Vietnam veteran is vacation time and taking have seen among other friends at home; they're telling you what the unpaid leaves of absence veterans and their all at her school. But we future of your children to travel all over the families. only have one car, and will be like." world, leaving their daughter in the care of relatives. • They feel it is their du- ty to spread the word about what they see not only as the poisoning of soldiers and civilians in Vietnam, but the wholesale poisoning of most of the world's population by careless chemical use. They have been, on the "Phil Donahue Show," "Good Morning America," "ABC's 20/20" and other i television and radio shows. They have been quoted in "Newsweek" *nd "Life" magazines. •'•; The Ryans also have ' testified before the US. douse of Represen- ' tatives and the Senate ,and have filed a suit in U.S. District Court on > behalf of their daughter. The Ryans' heart- breaking story is told eloquently in the heavily documented book, "Kerry: Agent Orange and an American Fami- ly," by a Chicago author —Photo by Jeff Blechman Kerry Ryan and her mother, Maureen, share a happy mo- ment. The 11-year-old girl was born with 22 birth defects that her parents believe were caused by her father's exposure to chemicals when he was a soldier in Vietnam. SOURCE The Columbia Record CITY AND STATE Columbia, S, C.

OATEOFPUBL. June 16, 1982 Agent Orange * :-rt|^ Viet namese establish 'hyj^fieSil^lating birth defects^ comppnent of defoliant ., HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (AP) Vietnamese officials from a govern- , A group of American war veterans on * ment agency investigating the consequences recent return visit to Vietnam were shown of chemical warfare in Vietnam said they blind children, deformed infant* and a basin would respond to the WA proposal through full of grotesquely shaped human fetuses Hanoi'* delegation at the United Nations. preserved in formaldehyde.'?' :'"v--, ., In the meantime, the Vietnamese said The Vietnamese said these horrors were they welcomed tests in the United States on products of Agent Orange, but admitted that soil and blood samples taken in Vietnam. they have been unable to establish scien- ,, The WA and other veterans groups in tifically a link to the defoliant used by U.S. the United States have focused on Agent forces during the Vietnam War. Orange since 1978, when the Veterans Ad- Dr. Ton Due Lang, a key researcher on ministration began getting complaints from Agent Orange, said the Vietnamese have Vietnam veterans of cancer, liver ailments, established only a "hypothesis" relating ex- neurological disorders, loss of sexual poten- posure to dioxin — a toxic component of the cy, skin lesions and birth .defects. Some defoliant — to what he said was a "very veterans linked these problems to exposure high" increase in birth defects in children to Agent Orange, and many lawsuits have of communist veterans of the war. ' been filed. ; The Vietnamese said the U.S. veterans There has been no agreement within the saw or talked to alleged victims in hospitals American scientific community on the ef- in Hanoi, Tay Ninh and in this city, once fects of the defoliant. Some studies are in known as Saigon. They either had been the works, including; one on the health of exposed to the defoliant or were children of flight crews and support personnel in the fathers or mothers who had been exposed. U.S. Air Force's "Ranch Hand" operation, The Vietnamese said their lack of quali- in which large areas of Vietnam were fied researchers and equipment, along with sprayed with the defoliant the problem of exploring something that . Vietnam recently stepped up its occurred more than a decade ago, made the criticism of the United States for waging inquiry extremely difficult chemical warfare in Vietnam, attacks ap- They did provide a few statistics. At parently triggered by U.S. charges that Hanoi's Vtet-Duc Hospital, doctors said a Vietnamese troops now use toxic chemicals group of 956 veterans exposed to Agent against guerrillas in Laos and Cambodia. Orange had been studied, and S.14 percent The WA delegation said that in its talk* of their children suffered congenital de- with Vietnamese doctors and researchers, formities. In another group of 593 North there was very little political rhetoric but Vietnamese who had never been to South rather an emphasis on Agent Orange as a Vietnam where the defoliant was used, only serious medical and humanitarian problem Jl percent of their children had such birth that needs to be solved. defects, , •" ••;•.:;.: •..'..; • "' Whether Hanoi would use a joint U.S.- Increasing numbers of .miscarriages and Vietnamese .investigation for propaganda birth deformities were recorded at Ho Chi purposes or bow the United States govern- Minh City's To Dn Hospital during and after ment — which has no.diplomatic ties with, the defoliant's use, but the statistics, accord- Vietnam — would react to such an effort ing to the Vietnamese, are incomplete. is unclear. ''•";,-- '' • " • •. The delegation from the Vietnam Veter- Communist Vietnam has no independent ans of America, a private group, presented scientific community which could challenge a proposal which would allow US, and other its own .government, and even hospitals foreign scientists to do impartial research have political commissars to keep the staff in Vietnam, «,•-..;. -;,^ ».*:~- . on the right ideological track. SOURCE The Columbia Record CITY AND STATE Columbia, S. C. DATE OF e June 16, 1982 Agent Orange ;; - ' ' '**,*•*''***.*' ' • • , ' ' ' - , Vietnamese establish 'hypothesis' relating birth defects, component of defoliant HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (AP) - • Vietnamese'officials from a govern- A group of American war. veterans on a ment agency investigating the consequences recent return visit to Vietnam were shown of chemical warfare in Vietnam said they blind children, deformed infants and a basin would respond to the WA proposal through full of grotesquely shaped human fetuses Hanoi's delegation at the United Nations. preserved in formaldehyde. . ,. > . • In the meantime, the Vietnamese said The Vietnamese said these horrors were they welcomed tests in the United States on products of Agent Orange, but admitted that soil and blood samples taken in Vietnam. they have been unable to establish scien- The WA and other veterans groups in tifically a link to the defoliant used by U.S. the United States have focused on Agent. forces during the Vietnam War. . ! ... Orange since 1978, when the Veterans Ad- Dr. Ton Due Lang, a key researcher on ministration began getting complaints from Agent Orange, said the Vietnamese have Vietnam veterans of cancer, liver ailments, established only a "hypothesis" relating ex- neurological disorders, loss of sexual poten- posure to dioxin — a toxic component of the cy, skin lesions and birth .defects. Some defoliant — to what he said was a "very veterans linked these problems to exposure high" increase in birth defects in children to Agent Orange, and many lawsuits have of communist veterans of the war. been filed. The Vietnamese said the U.S. veterans There has been no agreement within the saw or talked to alleged victims in hospitals American scientific community on the ef- in Hanoi, Tay Ninh and in this city, once fects of the defoliant. Some studies are in known as Saigon. They either had been the works, including one on the health of exposed to the defoliant or were children of flight crews and support personnel in the fathers or mothers who had been exposed. U.S. Air Force's "Ranch Hand" operation, The Vietnamese said their lack of quali- in which large areas of' Vietnam were fied researchers and equipment, along with sprayed with the defoliant. the problem of exploring something that Vietnam recently stepped up its occurred more than a decade ago, made the criticism of the United States for waging inquiry extremely difficult. chemical warfare in Vietnam, attacks ap- They did provide a few statistics. At parently triggered by U.S. charges that Hanoi's Viet-Duc Hospital, doctors said a Vietnamese troops now use toxic chemicals group Of 956 veterans exposed to Agent against guerrillas in Laos and Cambodia. Orange had been studied, and 3.14 percent The WA delegation said that in its talks of their children suffered congenital de- with Vietnamese doctors and researchers, formities. In another group of 593 North there was very little political rhetoric but Vietnamese who had never been to South rather an emphasis on Agent Orange as a Vietnam where the defoliant was used, only serious medical and humanitarian problem .21 percent of their children had such birth that needs to be solved. defects; Whether Hanoi would use a joint U.S.- Increasing numbers of miscarriages and Vietnamese investigation for propaganda birth deformities were recorded at Ho Chi purposes or how the United States govern- Minn City's Tu Du Hospital during and after ment — which has no .diplomatic ties with the defoliant's use, but the statistics, accord- Vietnam — would react to such an effort ing to the Vietnamese, are incomplete. is unclear. The delegation from the Vietnam Veter- Communist Vietnam has no independent ans of America, a private group, presented scientific community which could challenge a proposal which would allow U.S. and other its own. .government, and even hospitals foreign scientists to do impartial research have political commissars' to keep the staff in Vietnam. .- on .the right ideological track. SOURCE The Times-Picayune/Stalle's-Iteni CITY AND STATE New Orleans, Louisiana DATEOFPUBL. June 17, 1982

Thursday, June 17.1982 2 The Tithes-Picayune/The States-Item Agent Orange claims unproven, VA doctor says By JAMES HODGE of toe symptoms which Agent Orange Despite the claims of Vietnam veter- has been said to cause. "We don't want The Vietnamese said they believe ans, there is no scientific proof linking to treat you for exposure to (dioxin) if Agent Orange to serious diseases, and those horrors were byproducts of you have diabetes." Agent Orange, although they, too, lack residents of Jefferson Parish have as He said studies show a low corre- much of it — or similiar chemicals — lation between the amount of dioxin scientific proof. in their tissue as the veterans, accord- with severity of symptoms. Last month in Louisiana, the House ing to a Veterans Administration doc- He said that residents of a parish Committee on Civil Law and Procee- tor. like Jefferson, where herbicides are dure refused last month to make it The only disease that dioxin — the sprayed, have as much of the chemical :t easier for Vietnam veterans to file deadly component contained in Agent — or similiar compounds — in their e claims against chemical companies Orange — has been proven to cause is fat tissues as Vietnam veterans. n that manufactured Agent Orange. It a skin rash called chloracne, said Dr. Can-on said most studies exploring i. voted 7-2 against a proposal that would Gary Carroll, chief of the outpatient the connection between Agent Orange I, have increased the time allowed for department at the VA bosptial here. He and specific symptoms are under way ;- filing damages. spoke to a vocal group of New Orleans but at least two years from comple- I- Under the proposal, veterans diag- veterans Tuesday night at a forum, k nosed in the future as having medical tion. e problems that could be traced to Agent sponsored by American Legion Cres- Some veterans, however, expiessed cent City Post 125. doubt that the government really t Orange would have grounds tosue . The veterans, angry about what they > Existing law begins the statute of wants to see any link proved. limitations at the time when the chem- said is poor treatment by the VA, They mentioned statements made by directed a barrage of questions and Robert Nimmo, head of the Veterans . leal was idenitified as a health haz- remarks at Carroll and two other VA t zard. Administration, who has said that if Lawmakers said the proposal was officials, George Gray, chief of the the government decides to compensate medical administative services, and Vietnam veterans for any harm caused t special interest legislation that "would John Clark, the VA's regional officer. by the chemical, the cost would run - open a can of worms." Their principal complaint was that f Veterans, however, may take a free into the billions of dollars. physical examination and sign the the VA won't recognize Agent Orange About 12 million gallons of the defo- as the ciuse of a variety of disorders - Agent Orange Registry which may liant were sprayed in Vietnam from - serve as a basis for claims for benefits from skn rashes to cancer and birth 1960 to 1971, a period when 2.4 million defects which some researchers sus- Americans served in Vietnam. if a link is made. pect cai result from exposure to the Nimmo said the VA won't honor chemical. Agent Orange claims until the link to "The Ufficulty lies in the fact that disease is proven. many tlings cause the same symp- • A group of veterans recently toms," Carroll said. "And most of the returned to Vietnam and were shown complaiits by veterans can be attri- blind children, deformed infants and a buted toother, known diseases. There ' basin full of grotesquely shaped human are aboil 200 causes of liver failure." fetuses preserved in formaldehyde. Diabees, he said, can cause many SOURCWMI-IWKE I ^^«fc The Times-ricayune/Sta^l-Itein CITY AND STATE New Orleans, Louisiana DATE OP PUBL. June 17, 1982

Thursday. June 17.1982 * The Times-Picayune/The States-Item uiiproven, «r says By JAMBS HODGE of the symptoms which Agent Orange Despite the claims of Vietnam veter- has been said to cause. "We don't want The Vietnamese said they believe ans, there is no scientific proof linking to treat you .for exposure to (dioxin) if those horrors were byproducts of Agent Orange to serious diseases, and you have diabetes." residents of Jefferson Parish have as Agent Orange, although they, too, lack He said studies show a low corre- scientific proof. much of it — or similiar chemicals — lation between the amount of dioxin Last month in Louisiana, the House in their tissue as the veterans, accord- with severity of symptoms. Committee on Civil Law and Procee- ing to 0 Veterans Administration doc- He said that residents of a parish tor. ..-., . . dure refused last month,to make it like Jefferson, where herbicides are •t easier for Vietnam veterans to file The'only disease that dioxin - the sprayed, have as much of the chemical e claims against chemical companies deadly component contained in. Agent — or similiar compounds — in their n that manufactured Agent Orange. It Orange — has been proven to cause is fat tissues as Vietnam veterans. i. voted 7-2 against a proposal that would a ikin rash called chloracne, said Dr. Carron said most studies exploring Gary Carroll, chief of toe outpatient t, have increased the time allowed for the connection between Agent Orange »- filing damages. department at the VA hosptial here. He and specific symptoms are under way I- Under the proposal, veterans diag- ' spoke to a vocal group of New Orleans but at least two years from comple- k nosed in the future as having medical •veterans Tuesday night at a forum, tion. e problems that could be traced to Agent •sponsored by American Legion Cres- Some veterans, however, expiessed t Orange would have groundst o sue. ; cent City Post 125. doubt that the government really i. Existing law begins the statute of ' The veterans, angry about what they wants to see any link proved. limitations at the time when the chem- •said Ujpoor treatment by the VA, They mentioned statements made by , directed a barrage of questions and .. ical was idenitified as at health haz- Robert Nimmo, head of the Veterans sard. remarks at Carroll and two other VA Administration, who has said that if Lawmakers said the proposal was 'Official^, George Gray, chief of the the government decides to compensate ; medical administative services, and special interest legislation that "would Vietnam veterans for any harm caused open a can of worms." • .John Cbrk,the VA's regional officer. by the chemical, the cost would run i Their principal complaint was that Veterans, however, may take a free into the billions of dollars. physical examination and sign the jtbe VA jron't recognize Agent Orange About 12 million gallons of the defo- Agent Orange Registry (which may as the ause of a variety of disorders liant were sprayed in Vietnam from serve as a basis for claims for benefits 'from skp rashes to cancer and birth I960 to 1971, a period when 2.4 million ' if a link is made. .defects which some researchers ws- Americans served in Vietnam. pect cai resnH from exposure to th e: .'. Nimmo said the VA won't honor ichemici. • ' ' '•'•'''•• A ' Agent Orange claims until the link to •The Wficalty lies in the fact that disease is proven. many t ings cause the same symp- • A group of veterans recently toras,"

% 5 r :2$fM'f?MP'ij& * -ft- j•?*r• * f -"•• • JeffHfflladay.aty birth defects »ad * • |*Mde of other problems, although *«ey- are abundant.- .^i*?^^^'^ <\ % You, and your editors and writers, ^H>otild do well to heed the ad vice giv- j^a at the recent annual meeting of the American Society of 'Newspaper Bditorf by Michael O-Nein, editor of |he New York Daily News. One of |die, things editors need to do. O'Neili acted, is to "be ruthless in ferreting aWit the subtle ..biases — cultural, Irfscerai and ideological — that still jOip into copy.f ^^••-^^ii:- ^ w~ ;. .- ; '••• Pesticides, environmental .Issues *find "Agent Orange", all have been •victims of distorted xeporting .through misinformation, disinfor- mation, myth or simple mistakes. - , So, for the record: ' c -• • . • — Agent Orange used in Vietnam >as a 50-50 mix of 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D. It did have a high concentration of the toxic dioxin (TCDD), an impuri- jty formed during manufacture. -' -•' f But, domestic 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D ^contain only minute amounts of this i toxin, or roughly l/3,000th of |hf Concentration of TCDD *«. Agent Th«r National Academy .—_„ 3 invesligated charges In Viet-' in 1S74 that Agent Orange had ied peppje and Uvestocfe arid had fcaused. bfrA defects. They failed to Eind^Hijr conclusive Wnlk,;^^-',.^,-,'^-.,, — Research dohe.tKriiiugh the Nas* Lo^Angeles Times CITY AND STATE Los Angeles, Ca DATE OF PUBL. June 18, 1982

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ilv"^»v*-* i- -• j'*.< ",4.. ,- . -, .. .. I r . ,j M., ,(., fc^-i - ,-Jt;... .j*^- "* *" *' " * - :%.-'-*.' f ' . • _ ..SW '—Veterans asking the gover of cancer. There are also report* that dtacia can cause .about Agent Orange used to get * pamphlet tetingthe aM adeems* in the speed ol diseases that have been associated with exosure » •.••- ' S*""*-1.- -• ••;; ?, .•.- ,6xin,atcacicco<)tamii^tmtheVietnmdefi>UaniL % I'. The new, blue-covered publication aayst "During .The publication discussed reports unking dkndnwith 1978, a theory was publicized" that veterans who were ,» variety of health disorders-headaches, liver and exposed to Agent Orange "might be subject to delayed " f Mood disorders, nerve damage, cancer.:-*-. '••;.-•- <"•»> .-4' health effects from the exposure. •• ' . • -I -4 Now veterans asking about Agent Orange get a panv- ; ,*The theory was based on the fact that one of the 1 pMet that says worriee about dkato art cnv based on ^e ill, M£-T, contained minute traces of a toxic • I theory •* that it may have caused "delayed health chemical, dkndn (TCDD) which contaminated the her- recta. The publication does not name any of them. bidde during the manufacturing process. • . - r . •, The contaminant dkain to of concern because animal Admlnlrtrttton "said to revising the studies have shown it to be toxic to certain spedes. Like pamphlet that no effort was made to tone down what other toxic substances, dkndn has produced a number of veterans are toM about the possible health effects of Agent Orange. ,1. . ... :v-;. "."*•'., ^•"•.VT'\ *>»>' - During the war, 3% of the land area of Vietnam was ' Moen, in an interview, said that not many copies of sprayed with the herbicide to destroy Viet Cong crops the orange pamphlet were left and that those that re- aiid uncover the Jungle hiding places of communist mained have been taken off the shelves. But, he said troops. The spraying was halted after health questions the blue pamphlet was not intended to replace the or- were raised. - ,....-• • . .-..• ?'..-i-;•,-:-^^:>r s.. ange one. He said the type to larger in the blue pamphlet V "It's a different pamphle t: don ;e by different people so there was not as much room for the detail that the or- and a different administration,'' said Larry R. Moen, ange pamphlet had " who runs the VA's public' information and education Moen noted too, that a second new pamphlet, with a program on Agent Orange, •-••v;*?*^- •r/v';^,,"'.->. t. ;.- brown cover, has been issued to tell about medical . He termed the old pamphlet "somewhat outdated" R treatment offered veterans who believe that they may bore a photograph of Max Cteland, the wounded Viet* have been exposed to Agent Orange in Vietnam. nam veteran who headed the VA in the Carter Adminta-

v OUPampUetWasDetailel ." '- " * Both the old and the new publications assert' that ; facts about possible health damage have, not been estab- But the old one was more detailed about what tosus - pected . ' '•••„ , ' . , Said the old orange-colored pamphleti "We do not •know that humans who have been exposed to ctiaxtn .during industrial accidents have developed a specific skin condition known as chloracne which closely re- sembles the common forms of acne. ->:->* ;fc:.-. g]. "In addition, headaches, blood disorders, nausea, al- ,4etation8 in liver function and nerve damage have been 'reported.. .Some reports have suggested that people .exposed to dioxln have a higher incidence of some forms WESTERN PRESS ttlPPIMG BUREAU BBRTHPUD. COLO. f~t.WU.INS. COLO.

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CAROLYN PESCE Hale and his men were responsible for going in after the field was sprayed, collecting the cards Copyright 1982, MMMta TftlMV and putting new card* on the (takes for the next For The Cokndofn ' test. The droplets on the cards later were plotted FORT OTTERS, IT1>. — The man whose Army on a chart to determine the spraying pattern. The unit totted Agent Orange at Eglin Air Force Base pilot usually had time to make about three runs a •at) years ago says he suffers from some of the same day before the wind started to pick up around 11 .symptoms cited by veteran* who were exposed to a.m., Hale said; the powerful plant-killer during the Vietnam War. "The pilot would come in and make the first spray and just as quick as he cleared the field we Be could be one of the the flnt Mrvlcemen went out while the area still had mist and took the affected. cards off and put a new batch on," Hale said. "The 4, lays he and six men under him ------r ---- the herbicide for SO straight days In IMS during a test of how weather conditions would affect aerial spraying. No precautions were taken for the 'safety of the men, he said, until the owner of a nearby restau- rant where they ate started complaining that her plants were dying. After that, the men took shower* after their daily testing.

Hale left the service in IBM - without ever serv- ing in Vietnam — and Is now vice president of the Carroll Oil Op. here. Hale began suspecting a connection between his ailments and Agent Orange after reading a recent series in the Marietta (Ohio) Times on the subject a series that was circulated to newspapers around the country through Gannett News Service. He now would like to find the other men in his unit, and wants to join the massive class-action •lawsuit now pending against the chemical compa- nies that produced the herbicide, which was used ,to clear Jungle foliage for American troops. Veterans have blamed the herbicide for a range •of ailments from skin rashes to birth defects In their children. The federal government says a clear connection has not been proven, and has refused to pay compensation claims. Victor Tannacone, lead attorney in the veterans' •suit, said Hale could be an Important part of the legal action. Finding an isolated group exposed to .Agent Orange that long ago, Tannacone said, could help prove a connection. .: Hale, a Tennessee native, was drafted into the Army's 69th Chemical Company from his Job at 4he Hilton Chemical Co. m Cincinnati when the Vietnam War started. He was stationed at Fort McClellan in Anniston, Ala., to June 1962 when he was told he would be in charge of a unit that would .test the effects of weather conditions on the spray- ing of Agent Orange. •Tin a TIT. *T frnmii IT • • i ' "•"

_ tOrangem Vietnam real bad and that they had to finish test- tag it before it could go over," Hale said. "The convoys supplying the Vietnam troops were get- ting ambushed along the supply routes and they wanted the Agent Orange so they could strip both sides of the road along the routes." Hale'* seven-man detail was supplemented by an Air Force weatherman and several civilian sci- entists. The range, about 12 miles from the main part of the base, was divided Into grids by stakes wt 16 to 30 feet apart On each stake a cupboard held a card, which collected droplet* from the •prayuifi. Herald Oispa Huntington, WVA 6/f V82 tester may be

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- ^r' („, -^my9 r bothered me. 77>e scientists were there and they didnt Tfct I *!;„ 7'-.'*•*• any protective clothing on. I figured they knew what they '•;..'". were doing." . ?1 ..; . . ; • FORT MYERS, Fit. — The man whose Army onjt tested Agent William Hale, Orange at Eglin Air Force Baae 10 former Agent Orange tester fear* ago says he suffers from some of the same symptoms cited by vet* erans who were exposed to the pow- pending against the chemical •nlthat they had to finish testing it «rful plant-killer during the Vietnam companies that produced the herbi- before it could go over," Hale said. War..--..--,.>-, ?:>,., • -• •-- -••-.-•. r cide, which was used to dear jungle "The convoys supplying the Vietnam i He could be one of the the first foliage for American troops. troops were getting ambushed along tervkemen affected. • v;:/ Veterans nave blamed the herbi- the supply routes and they wanted ' William Hate. 44. «ava he and sixcide for • range of ailments from the Agent Orange so they could strip men unoer him were exposed to the skin rashes to birth defects in their toth sides of the road along the fcerbicide for SO straight days in 1962 children. The federal government mites." during a test of how weather condi- says a clear connection* has not been Kale's seven-man detail was sup- tions would affect aerial spraying. proven, and has refused to pay com- plemented by an Air Force weather- No precautions were taken for the pensation claims. man and several civilian scientists. safety of the men, he said, until the Victor Yannacone, lead attorney The range, about 12 miles from the owner of a nearby restaurant where in the veterans' suit, said Hate could main part of the base, was divided they ate started complaining that be an important part of the legal into grids by stakes set 15 to 20 feet her plants were dying. After mat, action. Finding an isolated group apart. On each stake a clipboard the men took showers after their exposed to Agent Orange that long held a card, which collected droplets 4aily testing. ago, Yannacone said, could help from the sprayings. Hale says be has recently had prove a connection. Hale and his men were responsi- 'three malignant skin cancers ble for going in after the field was removed from his face, chest and Hale, a Tennessee native, was sprayed, collecting the cards and neck. The migraine headaches he's drafted into the Army's 69th Chemi- putting new cards on the stakes for been getting since the 1960s are get- cal Company from his job at the Hil- the next test. The droplets on the ting worse, be says, and he continu- ton Chemical Co. in Cincinnati when cards later were plotted on a chart ally has blisters on his lipi. the Vietnam War started. He was to determine the spraying pattern. Hale left the service in 1966 - stationed at Fort McClellan in The pilot usually had time to make ..without ever serving in Vietnam — Anniston, Ala., in June 1962 when he about three runs a day before the and is now vice president of the Car- was told he would be in charge of a wind started to pick up around 11 .roll Oil Co. here. unit that would test the effects of a.m., Hale said. Hale began suspecting a connec- weather conditions on the spraying "The pilot would come in and tion between his ailments and Agent of Agent Orange. • \ make the first spray and just as Orange after reading a recent series From 2-a.m. to around 11 a.m., quick as he cleared the field we went in the Marietta (Ohio) Times on the seven days a week, Hate and his out white the area still had mist and subject, a series that was circulated men stood in the deserted bombing took the cards off and put a new to newspapers around the country range at Eglin as a C123 aircraft batch on," Hate said. "The spray : through Gannett News Service. flew over the field spraying Agent would come over right where we i He now would like to find the Orange. were standing when the aircraft mother men in his unit, and wants to Their told m they needed the went over. Join the massive class-action lawsuit Agent Orange in Vietnam real bad "To begin with, we didn't worry

(7) I about it, because they said it was •armless." The manufacturers provided no warnings of danger, Hale said, nor did the scientists with the mission. "Some of us were worried because we had no protective masks," he said. "But the chemists said masks weren't necessary. It wouldn't hurt us, they said ... "It never bothered me. The scien- tists were there and they didn't have any protective clothing on. I figured they knew what they were doing." . At Eglin, public affairs officer Lt. Laura Pipkin confirmed that Agent Orange testing began there in 1962, "confined to an isolated area" of the base. She said the aerial testing there probably was the first in the country. Asked about safety precautions, she said it was not until the 1970s that it was first known that the man- ufacture of Agent Orange produced deadly diorin. Until then, she said, "Agent Orange was treated as a low toxicity product." In his search for other men in his unit, the only name Hale recalls is that of one of the corporals, Howard Hemmingway, who Hale says lives somewhere in Mississippi. About two years ago, Hale heard that the Veterans Administration was offering health screening for veterans who had been exposed to Agent Orange. Hale went to a VA outreach center in Fort Myers and told doctors about his headaches and his exposure, but they were "very evasive and had very little to say," be said. VA personnel told him he would be contacted at a later date about the results of his test and to sched- ule another exam, said Hale, but to date he hasn't heard from anyone.

Gannett Newt Service -William Hale supervised enlisted men who tested Agent Orange before it was used in Vietnam.

(8) SOURCE POST-DISPATCH CITY AND STATE PITTSBURG, CA

DATE OF PUBL. June 20, 1982 Is this 11-yea™ ByJOHNLOVEJOY • » Michael and Maureen Ryan of New York have an 11-year-old daughter they consider to be a victim of the Vietnam War as much as any soldier who fought there. Their child, Kerry, was born in late January'1971* Vietnam war with 22 birth defects. The parents are convinced > Kerry's congenital deformities and disabilities are . due to Michael's exposure to AgenjjOMnge while he was fighting in Vietnam. *=~ v&.'; Kerry has been at death's door manyunes dur- victim? ing her short life. !£*• She suffered brain damage during MM of her many operations. She went temporarily tijttnd from those brain injuries, which also has made K im- possible for her to walk. For awhile it was feared she would never talk again. Her vision has now returned, though it is im- paired. She has begun learning to read, and can now understand first-grade level books. She can talk, but has a speech impediment. Other birth defects include a malformed right arm and hand. She does not have the ability to con- trol her bladder and must wear diapers. She was born without a rectum, and had to be given a col- ostomy — an operation that provides an opening in the abdomen through which wastes can pass into a bag the patient wears. Kerry, who reached puberty at the age of 8, also has duplicate sex organs and must have surgery to correct that defect. . Yet, when the Post Dispatch interviewed her convinced that his health problems and his parents May 18 in San Francsico.her mother, daughter's birth defects had anything to do with Maureen Ryan, referred to Kerry as "a triumph. chemicals or Vietnam. She's got a very sarcastic sense of humor." But today he is sure that Kerry's injuries are the : Michael Ryan said, "Every day when she result of what he says amounts to "a felony ; wakes up, sheis nappy to be alive." '•••-<. .-.<•• .assault." [ The Ryans and their daughter have gone through He says his doubts about Agent Orange vanished more pain and torture in the last 10 years than most after meeting with Yannacone for six hours and families ever do. For years, they thought Kerry's reading a class-action suit the attorney was prepar- problems and the burdens, they created for the rest ing to file on behalf of veterans exposed to the of the family were a result of God's will. . powerful herbicide, which contained dioxin, the But Maureen began to have other suspicions after most potent poison known to man. Three ounces in reading about Agent Orange in newspapers and New York City's water supply could kill the entire . magazines. . •*• population of that city, according to one estimate. When she saw a Jimmy Breslin article In 1978 Ryan has since come to the conclusion that he and •bout the death of Paul_Jleutershan, a young his fellow soldiers were poisoned in Vietnam by the veteran who blamed his*terminal cancer on his ex- U.S. government — and government officials had "posurlTto Agent Orange, it convinced her that her, known the dangers but had not bothered to warn husband's severe body acne and gradual hearing anyone, he claims. loss were caused by the U.S government's use of "To this day I haven't heard from the govern- chemicals in Vietnam and his exposure to them. ment," he says. "I haven't filed to be tested for And as she looked over at Kerry in her wheelchair Agent Orange exposure because it's incumbent on that day in 1978, Maureen Ryan burst into tears as the government to notify the 2.5 million U.S. the horrifying possibility began to dawn on her that veterans who were exposed. I probably wouldn't her daughter's birth defects also were chemically even know about now it if my wife hadn't told me induced. about it." When she regained control of herself, she called For the past four years, the Ryans have been Victor Yannacone, a Long Island attorney, who spending their vacation time and taking unpaid later called her husband. leaves of absence to travel all over the world, leav- Michael Ryan, who has been a policeman since ing their daughter in the care of relatives. 1969 and is not given to flights of fancy, was un- They feel is their duty to spread the word about what they see not only .as the poisoning of soldiers and civilians in Vietnam, but the wholesale poison- ing of most of the world's population by careless chemical use. They have been on the "Phil Donahue Show," "Good Morning America," "ABC's 20/20" and other shows. They have been quoted in "Newsweek" and "Life" magazines. The Ryans also have testified before the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate and have filed a suit in U.S. District Court on behalf of their daughter. The Ryans' heartbreaking story is told eloquently in the book, "Kerry: Agent Orange and an American Family," (by Clifford Linedecker, with Michael and Maureen Ryan, St. Martin's Press, New York, 240 pages, hardcover, $12.95.) It also touches on the plights of other families and in- - dhriduals whose lives have been ruined, allegedly ' by chemicals that were used in Vietnam, and, in one case, Korea. ; The book alleges that those who obeyed their : government's orders to fight an undeclared war in '.Southeast Asia also are victims of their govern- : !.ment's disregard for them. _ t. '~ ! The Ryans have made it their avocation to talk 1 about their experiences. But it is obviously not easy for them to do so, and as they speak, they frequent- ly reach out to touch other and clasp each others' '•hands as they recount their struggles, their ' daughter's suffering, and the sorrow and pain they £ have seen among other veterans and their families. ,' They tell, for/instance, about the night they met i another Vietnam veteran and his wife, who also had a daughter with multiple birth defects. The Ryans i say one of the little girl's hands looks almost exact- ly like their own daughter's malformed right hand. The deformities of other Vietnam veterans' • children are almost certainly due to their fathers having been sprayed by chemicals,. the Ryans assert. Maureen Ryan says of Kerry, "She'll never get married and never know what it's like to make love to a man." Michael Ryan says, "She's 100 percent dependent on another person. She feeds herself, but you've got to be there when she's eating. She has no friends at home; they're all at her school. But we only have , one car, and all her friends are in wheelcheairs, so we can't transport them. "She just sits on the lawn during hot summer days, watching the world go by." Maureen adds, however, "Kerry is only one child ; out of thousands. What started as a Vietnam ! veterans's issue is now a human issue." She points to the documented cases of deformed children and incidences of cancer and other diseases suffered not only by returned Vietnam veterans, but by civilians who live or have lived f near toxi dump sites, such as Love Canal in New York. "If somebody doesn't do something," says Maureen Ryan, "it is the age of mutants. Her husband adds, "The Vietnam veteran is tell- F ing you what the future of your children will be like." • S r Marietta (GA) Daily Journal CITY AND STATE

DATE OF PUBL. 6-22-82

Herbicide V - >-•-• -•'••-•£••«-' I'-. ;$..&.. .&-, Said Claimed Marine's Life ATLANTA (UPI) - the treasurer of Agent Orange Victims, who died of the cancer he believed was caused by his exposure to the herbicide while he was a Marine serving in Vietnam, was buried Monday. '"••'••'•'--\•./-• *.' ^QBdlj$-JEUifi|mojLMbV-*to

Both men were plaintiffs in a fed* era! class action suit filed in January • against the Veterans Administration. ' They said the administration re- fused to provide adequate medical care to veterans exposed to Agent Orange. '• Both men suffered soft-tissue can- cers — «' malady that usually only afflicts people twice their age. The lawsuit demands that the VA notify veterans about potential health hazards connected with exposure to Agent Orange and offer medical care for those who now show signs of having been exposed to the defoliant. Blackmon had said he thought he was sprayed with the hebicide in 1967. SOURCE The Columbia Record

CITY AND STATE Columbia, South Carolina DATE OF PUBL. June 23,1982

Veteran, active in dispute •f.r over Agent Orange, dies " ATLANTA (AP) - An East Point man veterans exposed to Agent Orange, used as active in an organization that seeks to help » defoliant in Vietnam. Vietnam veterans exposed to Agent Orange Toe suit demands that the VA notify has died of the cancer he believed resulted veterans about potential health hazards con-', from his contact with the herbicide while nected with exposure to Agent Orange and • serving with the Marines in Vietnam. offer medical care to those who show signs of having been poisoned by. it. _OjTille Blackmon, 35, treasurer of Agent Blackmon had said h«> h*»li Orangevicuins^nAtlanui, died Friday after suffering through, a long, ravaging fight ^militarized zone, between was buried Monday. is survived by his wife, Anne Meroney, the attorney who filed: the suit against the VA, said two Emory Blackmon was the second activist in the Hospital physicians who treated Blackmon 75-member Agent Orange Victims of Atlan- recently wrote a letter to the New England ta to die of canceicer in recent months. The .Journal of Medicine urging that research be head of the organizationganization, theJtev . Tom *^done on possible links between Agent Orange iart Jnril 11 . exposurexosuree and soft-tissue cancer. Champion, a Vietnam veteran, believed Both Blackmon and Champion bad soft- his cancer also was related to Agent Orange tissue cancer./ exposure. At the time of Champion's death, a The two men had Joined in a federal spokesman for the VA said the agency had • class-action lawsuit in January against the commissioned a nationwide study to assess Veterans Administration, charging that the the health disorders suffered by veterans agency refused adequate medical care to exposed to Agent Orange. SOURCE MUSKOGEE DAILY PHOENIX CITY AND STATE Muskogee, Oklahoma DATE OF PUBL. June 24. 1982 1 of 2 Agent Orange: Vietnam veterans' thanks?

By CAROLYN PESCE in San Francisco." airport. Without any debriefing Outwit News fervk* "The magnitude of so many sessions, it was hard for many CcpyrigM MM, MwMto TlmM veterans returning daily made it soldiers to ad just to weir return. There were no sounds of drums hard to strike up the band, but when "We'd been gone a whole year," rolling or people cheering, and there I finally realized I was going to says West 'Things had changed, weren't any banners decorating the make it I had visualized I was a times had changed. I can't explain streets when Joe Lucas of Marietta Agent Oronge: hero, not personally, but because I'd the feeling of walking back into it stepped off a plane in California A Vietnam Legacy done something for my country," he When we returned, we weren't after serving a tour of duty in says. "The exact opposite was recognized. People could care less." Vietnam. true." \ "You're in Vietnam one day and Instead, people threw eggs and remembers as be got off the plane "My gut feeling when I got back less man 48 hours later, you've a called him a baby-killer, and two still work in his mind. was apathy," Micky McKitrick of civilian," McKitrick says. nfiiiifory pplfo^mfTi had to keep an Keith Kappte of little Hocking Marietta says. "I don't fed most Many Vietnam veterans still are angry crowd from attacking three remembers the teasing and the Americans cared." bitter because of the negative way Green Berets who got off the plane protest groups when he returned. When Wayne West of rural they feel they were treated by with him. The first thing he did was get fitted Woodsfield got off the plane, he was Americans when they returned from Hie boos and threats that Carl for civilian clothes because "it marched with other soldiers to a bus the war. Those feelings, combined Gfflespie of New Matamoras really wasn't safe to be in uniform waiting for them at the empty (See VETS on Poge Three) Defoliant tests dealing with unknown By JESSIE MANGALIMAN Vandiver died in January of federal government, the Oklahoma country, including Muskogee's and a PtomU St*H Writer stomach cancer, and his deathbed . State Health Department, the satellite clinic in Tulsa, now It took John Vandiver almost to instruction to his wife Louise and University of California in Los administer standardized tests for Us dying moment to reconcile in his daughter Lisa was to convince the Angeles, and the Disease Control war veterans who suspect they may heart that tiie cancer in his stomach • federal government that there is a Center in Georgia are conducting have been exposed. and liver could have been caused by correlation between Vietnam separate studies of Agent Orange. : These thorough medical and exposure to Agent Orange. veterans who have died of cancer The U.S. Air Force is studying physical examinations are changing Even his wife sensed his gnawing and their exposure to Agent Orange. separately a group of 1,200 feelings of Vietnam war veterans sense of fear of finding out the truth The Vandivers, and many others servicemen called the Ranchhands like those experienced by Vandiver. about his illness, that's why she said like them, have had little or no luck who handled the spraying of the At Veterans Administration he never sought specific testing for so far. « defoliant. Medical Center in Muskogee, Dr. possible exposure to the herbicide. There is one consolation. The Veterans hospitals all over the (See DOCTORS on Page Three) UH1LT KHUtNIA CITV AND 1TATE Muskogee, Oklahoma DATE Of P»U»L. June 24, 1982

Vets still sifting through war aays. "I started drinking heavy and i wtti poor trattnttnt vsti $ stayed drank. Td get up and drink «Htvv raouvw EroQi tut VctevwMi and go to bed drinking." Administration regarding Agent The first two or three weeks Orange and other issues, have made Kapple was home, be says, he it tarter for many vets to adjust to Agont Orange): cooktat believe he was sleeping in a Vie back to the State*. feel bed. "You dream every day If A* « Marine, diaries Price of A Vietnam Legacy you'll regain a normal life, wonder . oHpFB IvUp^ul ID IWUi VlanlaaUXt ttn tt you'll wake up and be to the Con*. Jungle, hear the fire and smell the i "We were there because we tttt Finding a Job wasnt a problem stench. I was always waiting for that's where we belonged. As to M for Lucas like it was for other vets someone to wake me up. It was a An concerned, the American people who came home and couldn't Bud matter of months until I realised I •old at oat while we were ant work. But Lucas says be did have actually did survive the war. then. We bid order* to go over problems adjusting because he was "People view Vietnam as a waste there, and while we were gone tbe "a different person" when be came of money, time, and lives—a American people permitted flags to political scheme, an absolute farce. w* burned. It's hud to keep up "You feel sorry for yourself, but People generally feel, and I share morale when you aae that yon dont want pity. You just want the same viewpoint, that we simply happening." to get away. I havent adjusted. Yon staged it to help the economy. When "I often wondered why we were go through your ups and downs. there's war, there's prosperity (or there," GOlesple My*. "Before I Some days you're all right, other aome. Uke aH wars, they're started left, 1 thought Communism was days you go through depression." for the wealthy." taking over the world and we bad to A combat Marine who served one • "When you were there, you «op it When I got there, it was a tour of duty In Vietnam, Roger couldn't watt to get out," McKttrtck Phillis says be dktot have a hard aays. "When you got here, you "I new did figure what tbe war tune finding work, but did find it eouktat wait to get back. There was wai «U tbout It Aouldnt bra difficult adjusting to simple • feeling of power there and tt was been fffnghti but once we were everyday tasks like driving a car. •JMdting and boring back here." there, we should have done "I enlisted in the Marine Corps, I When be got out of tbe Army, something about It Nothing wai asked to go to Vietnam. I was II • McKitrickstys he started drinking, accomplished by going over there. and didnt know a lot I got what I had a fierce temper, and used to We didnt win tbe war." asked for, and then some. I was break furniture. Moat Americana would like to very lucky; I walked home. I bad "to my heart I was still a GI forget the war, Price iay». He (tin both legs, both arms, and I havent learning to cope with civilian lile," to resentful because the U.S. pulled been in a mental ward." he says. "Not being In Vietnam has It* troop* out of Vietnam. Most people stereotype the changed me more — I'm more "It wai nch a tremendous waste. Vietnam veterans as being mentally stable and dont have the temper I By nature, I'm a gentle person. Now unstable, Phillis aays. "A bunch of used to have. Knowing what I know Fin walking around Uke a cocked beggars trying to get pensions." now, we never should have been fun, Just waiting for someone to call "I'm one of the lucky ones," say* there. But once you're there, right me a baby-killer, I've been spat at West. When he returned, he got tbe or wrong, you better win it and acted how many kids I've killed lame Job he had before the war, ftm«ttn>tff I'm bitter." to Vietnam." working with Big Bear Grocery "Fm bitter against my own "I fad deep down fattidt oxMt Stores. Ancricw hive rcMntnicnt igtitmt "There was a time I didnt talk people," says GUlespie, a Marine j as," Lucas says of Vietnam vets. about tbe war," be says. "I bad construction engineer during tbe mixed emotions when I came home. war. "When I came home no one 1I "They may not show it, but I think associated with me. I got off the they do. I always thought, 'Boy, I I dont regret going over, but I feel plane and there were people all wish I could be that happy-go-lucky we didnt accomplish that much around and they booed us. I'd been . guy I was before I went over over mere, for all we lost I try to m tbe Jungle for 13 months and ' there."' put the war out of my mind." coolant believe it That was a "I dont think tbe public knows •Tve had a hard tone finding devastating effect on my mind. In a bow tt pcrccdvcv the Vtetiuun work," aays Price, who stm is out of matter of noun, that was worse veteran," Price says. "It's work. "When you combine age, than the war." ; something they want to forget I let retirement, and the fact that you're Kapple and Price both say they ! the opinion, what tbe hen. The a two-time war veteran, it make* it have bad drinking problems. Price { American people dont owe me hard to get a Job." says alcohol still Is a continuous ; anything and I dont owe them Not being able to find work made tattle for him. Kapple says be had a I anything. I paid my debt to OUlespie's adjustment even tougher. oVinking problem long after the Jaodety." . , •' "No one wanted to hire me," he aarvice. Doctors, scientists looking for link w* CwiHuwrf tnm Pee* OM Vietnam veterans, Killer said. Data The studies *o far have revealed Sdney Kanowttx has done about collected from the examinations are BtOe, the doctors said. 1X0 Agent Orange examinations m asnt to the Veterans Administration "We're seeing o^tttte a few skin fiveBveyean' yean. . In tbe Tnlaa clinic, Dr. to Washington, D.C., and the conditions but these conditions could Leigh KOIeKffler has made about HO University of California. have been caused by other things. , Washington's registry has about We look for things like liver and AgentOrange examinations • • • fO,ouO examinations from the ' lung problems. We'n not seeing osQafly Involve a complete physical, country to date, Kanowite said. anything unusual or a lot of any one X-rays, profiles of liver and kidney Many of those who request the thmg. It's from dandruff to liver fBnctiotia,a blood count, a examinations have come on the aJhnente," KflTer said. neurological exam, and numerous encouragement of their wives, "Then1* no pattern* In an these other tests. Those examined an children and relatives, Killer and Umnasnrts of eases. There's been no reuuii'sdI to fill out a questlonnain Kanowitx said. pattern," Kanowitt said. whichI de«W*flt « "Mltiff I "Vets in this part of the county On the one hand, that lack of • service histories. have been reasonable and very > In the thousands of_Agent Originally, only veterans who cooperative as far as the study is B CSMS COUld MCCOfltniCd U served In Vietnam from 1966 to 1I7B concerned. We ten them we're , the doctors said. On tbe wen eligible for Agent Orange dealing with something we dont r, as in the case of the Vandiver examination. But that time limit has know about and they try to family, tt could mean a long been expanded to include all understand that," Killer said. •nenconraglng wait |:W* " *• - "^ ^^B - ,• f+~ f ' i& ant shown to veterans

~--«.« A grou, p n war veterans tion at the United Nation. • > oiarecentreturavtoittoVlettiamwere* ; In the meantime, the Vletnaraeae r infants said they wdcomed tests in the United atidk basin futf of ^SteteswsoU and btoodsainpte taken Human Muses preser to VJetoanx >• - ^^ -^- :,, „•..• t ''TheVVA and other veterans groups 1^ sVietnfWjeseiKddtheseTwiTor -«-'<>;--'..j - s in the United States have focused on were products of Agent Orange, bat ;ad- : Agent Orange since 1978, when the Vet- tnittedthattbeyhavebeenunabletoes- erans Administration began getting- blish scientifically a link to the defoh*- complaints from Vietnam veterans of ' •v wed byUJSv . to^duriijg the Viet- r_ cancer, liver ailments, neurological dis- V .-* ...... <-«- »• — " ' a Dr, Tori Dtic Lang, a key researcher irioos and birth defects. Some veterans v linked these problems to exposure to n fcaveestablisbedonlva "hypothesis''re- "'" Agent Orange, and many lawsuits have feting exposure to dioxin —atoxic beenffled • component of the defoliant—to what . There has been no agreement within fie said was a "very high" increase in * , the American scientific community on o *l ttrttt defects in children of communist *., ,t the effects of the defoliant Some stud- ies are in the works, including one on the r? The Vietnamese said the UJ5. veter- health of flight crews and support per- ims saw or talked to alleged victims in ' "' sonnel in the U.S. Air Force's "Ranch hospitals in Hanoi TayNinh and In this Hand*'operation, in which large areas dty.onc^ known as Saigon. They either • •of Vietnam were sprayed with the defo- bad been exposed to the defoliant or ._„., liant »..,.:„. f • -,• •,•.,. . vefc children of fathers or mothersv -*'„. Vietnam recently stepped up its criti- who had been exposed. - - •^'••- ""••' cism of the United States for waging ^ The Vietnamese said their lack of .<••• chemical warfare in Vietnam, attacks pjoalified researchers and equipment, • apparently triggered by U.S. charges i0ong with the problem of exploring that Vietnamese troops now use toxic something that occurred more than a chemicals against guerrillas in Laos decade^ ' " ' ' and Cambodia. The WA delegation said that in its ' They did provide a few statistics. At talks with Vietnamese doctors and re- Bpnoi'8Viet-Duc Hospital, doctors said searchers, there was very little political 4 jproub of 956 veterans exposed to - rhetoric but rather an emphasis on Agent Orange had been studied and 8.14 Agent Orange as a serious medical and percent of their children suffered con- humanitarian problem that needs to be genital deformities. In another group of solved 593 North Vietnamese who had never Whether Hanoi would use a joint U.S.- been to South Vietnam where the defoli- Vietnamese investigation for propa- ant was used, only .21 percent of their ganda purposes or how the United children had such birtfidefects. States government—which has no dip- ; Increasing numbers of miscarriages lomatic ties with Vietnam—would and birth deformities were recorded at react to such an effort is unclear. Ho Chi Minh Qty's Tu Du Hospital dur- Communist Vietnam has no indepen- ing and after the defoliant's use, but the dent scientific community which could statistics, according to the Vietnamese, challenge its own government, and are incomplete - even hospitals have political commis- •: The delegation from the Vietnam ^;v;i sars to keep the staff on the right ideo- Veterans of America, a private group, logical track. presented a proposal which would allow A few American scientists have < UJS. and other foreign scientists to do. v. • come to Vietnam in recent years for impartial research in Vietnam. *' *••'•- Agent Orange research. Dr. Edward L. •j\ Vietnamese offidals from a govern- Cooperman, a physicist from California jency investigating the conse- State University at Fullerton, heads a j of chemfcal warfare ta Viet- -^ called the US. Committee for i said they woulof respond to the « */. Des Moines TRIBUNE Des Moines, Iowa June 25, 1982 U§*•*! oxin^itttipac ,' . "•• -. T'%'i>1^?-'%-^r-.'> ffsff-5- <(if t#: •t ~#>'o^ n*'•'•'•"'. vet*,.•-- *'-~v_**fc'*s1'- -« iV- - "* ''*''.' ^.'" " ' **Vt'$&" -j^_ 1» AI»»'i*»x* **M •* •_>-.-- .«.* •• — .. - ' By Derrick Baker ste of the state of the government "would rather Just and many Americans were forget ft," altbougk "it's going to be i. For many of the Americans who Kieler said the cbemici with us firf the next SO years." served in Vietnam and were exposed Hit*.. tl^tf hnmh Ip tiw. JKwrtfX to the toxic herbWde Agent Orange, thereby explaining the delayed The stody abo showed that some ; the war rages on. ,; • • - ••••- •.. effects many veterans sutier. ~~* veterans experience pain in their w that was tike thought offered "Among them are vomiting, joints, extreme fatigue and stiffness. Wednesday night at the Vet Center. diarrhea, constipation' and abdominal \ Thoman said a veteran exposed to M19 Sixth Ave,, to a group of about pain. »e chemical "can never be sure if Mwpmen whose husbands or loved Re said dtoxin, a byproduct of one he's going to produce healthy oneswere exposed to the chemical. of Agent Orange's two, baste ingredi- 6ffsprlng,>r although sperm cocount t T5f Mark Thoman, a DesHouVes ents, often to classified as the "most teals can aid In making a diagnosis. loxicologist, and John fUeler, a deadly poison ever created by man/1 "Both men urged the women to put part-time environmental biology in- He said dioxin never to manufactured pressure on the Environmental Pro- structor at Drake, said veterans and intentionally, and a safe dosage does tection Agency, their congressmen their families still combat the ettecta not exist .-. :- ; =, , .-' -.'• . , and the US. Agriculture Department caused. bv«rpp«)re to the chemjcaL . Thoman toU the women's support to continue research in the area. Both agreed the side effects place, a group that a 10-month study of 78 The discusslqp was the third in a great amount of stress on a veteran's veterans whd claimed exposure four-part series that deals with the family,too. -.'• •. ' i" / .i. '•.,'. showed that 85 percent of them broke delayed effects on veterans. The - Agent Orange hi a reddish-brown out with a rash that resisted group win meet again Wednesday for Chemical that was used in Vietnam to j treatment, S5 percent experienced a discussion on nutrition and stress. kill vegetation to destroy hiding .tingling to their bodies, U percent The support group offers aid to •places for the Viet Gong." '..V> '^')- had headaches and 71 percent women in dealing with their Kieier said the chemical was suffered depression. .. husbands' post-traumatic stress and sprayed over an area "roughly ^ae j .Despite the figures, Thoman said their own health care, , ice Springfield Daily N CITY AND STATE Springfield, MA DATE OF PUBL. 6/24/82

fVPWTbbby „ Urged on Defoliant ' '- ; "Agent Orange is WORCESTER (UPI) •something that's going I — Paul A. Spera, the to take a massive lob- Ifirst Vietnam War vet- bying effort, which is j eran * elected com- the kind of thing our j. mander of the Massa- organization is at its chusetts Veterans of best doing. We've got Foreign Wars, says the to get the government VFW should use its and the chemical com- lobbying leverage to panies to undertake a investigate effects of comprehensive and Agent Orange. • impartial study, and "I think this should then have the VA apply tell Vietnam veterans the same rules to that there's a place for Agent Orange as it them in the VFW and does to other compens- 'that they will have able disabilities," he their views heard," said Spera said of his elec- tion Sunday at the 'group's 62nd annual convention. • ' : s "Vietnam veterans, as a group, face many problems, many of which can be improved by the vigorous lobby- ing effort we can 'mount. I feel very strongly that it's in their best interest (to join)," he told the 3,800 veterans. .

Spera, 38 of Attle- boro, said veterans must prod the govern- ment into conducting more research into effects of the defoliant Agent Orange, used extensively^ in Vietnam. SOURCE SUNDAY REGISTER CITY AND STATE Des Moin.es, Iowa DATE OF PUBL. June 27, 1982 ,im/3B However, during the meeting and toan interview later, Saldivar did not say whether any specific action was planned for the near future, or what it might be.. w'i*-i--- •:> •• > Earlier k» the meeting Kasick told the veterans he was convinced that Agent Orange caused some genetic damage to the unborn babies of some Vietnamese women who were ,pregnant when they were .exposed to the herbtriipi $ *» ^u-..,w-': DAVENPORT, U. — Two "OpenMiad" • , '% V '; offidah of the Veterans Admlnlstra- . .Be .said he hak an "open mind- tton Hospital la towa CJty not ahoot whether exposure" could cause Saturday with *everal Vietnam genetic disorders that could be passed veterans who art convinced that their atoogbyfathjlrs.fr ;T r*-*1- exposure to the herbicide Agent Kasick said after the meeting that ; Orange has resulted in birth defects he did not know of any ailment that ;a«d health problems for their could be linked conclusively to Agent [children, ;.;'**;-• •.'•^-.\^.f-'r'>:, •*'-• Orange, except a sUn condition called p A major point made by some of the chloracne. ; veterans was that they believe the That also has been the official government should provide medical position of the Veterans Adminlstra- ! treatment for their children. ! But the two hospital officials - Agent Orange contains dioxin, one John F. Hickman, director, and Dr. of the most toxic substances in John Kasick, chief of staff r- said existence, and some veterans nation- that a decision about that was not wide blame it for causing cancer, theirs to make. It would have to be liver and nerve disorders, and Inade at the national level - f •> emotional changes, as well as birth ""Specific problems cited by the defects in their children. Veterans included heart trouble, allergies, difficulty in eating, and hteedinfMres. ' .' V. .>/ . . TUrd Breast '.,.,..:-..??•* .,' '• ''•Veteran Charles Schantag, M, of .Davenport said after the meeting that ' bis daughter was bora with a third breast that had to be removed surgi- cally. The child, Handy, now 5, "cant jwalk because her joints swell 49 so I'fcadly," Schantag said. • • • t Those who attended the two-boor [tneetlag included about eight Vietnam veterans and the wife of one veteran. The session was arranged by U.S. Representative James Leach

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COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORAO GAZETTE TELEGRAPH JUN. 29 198it •Agent Orange veteran buried ; ; RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A Viet-, ',, nam veteran whose death a year ago triggered national protests about Agent Orange was finally buried Monday at ' the National Cemetery here in a quiet /ceremony attended by his son, ex-wife and a few friends. ^ " James Roger Hopkins, 33. first drew national attention in March 1981 when he drove his jeep through the glass doors of Wadsworth Veterans Adminis- tration Hospital in Los Angeles as a protest over what he contended was inadequate VA care for the effects of the defoliant Agent Orange, widely used in Vietnam. Inside the lobby, he jumped out of the vehicle and fired nine shots from sever- al weapons into the walls and ceiling, and was arrested. Nobody was injured. He died two months later, on,May 17, 1981, and his death was ruled a suicide; But his body had remained in the Los Angeles County coroner's morgue for more than a year pending a second autopsy paid for by his second wife, Suzanne Hopkins, who contended Hopkins had been murdered. Last month's autopsy found nothing new to change the suicide verdict reached at an inquest in November. 1981. . ;• • .