From: | CPEO Moderator <cpeo@cpeo.org> |
Date: | 18 May 2001 23:49:16 -0000 |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] "What the military left behind" |
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/000124/alliance.b.htm What the military left behind US News 1/24/01 ANGELES CITY, PHILIPPINES–When the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo buried the region in volcanic ash and hastened the departure of United States forces from Clark Air Base, some 20,000 homeless Filipino families were relocated onto the sprawling installation. The new residents dug wells, planted crops, and settled in–unaware that the ground water they drank and bathed in, the soil their rice and sweet potatoes grew in, and the creeks and ponds they fished in were contaminated by toxic substances dumped during a half century of U.S. tenure. Within a few years, health workers began tracking a rise in spontaneous abortions, stillbirths, and birth defects; kidney, skin, and nervous system disorders; cancers, and other conditions that can be caused or exacerbated by exposure to chemical toxicants. Between May and July of 1995, for example, five infants were born suffering from the same central-nervous-system disorder. From that congenital birth defect cluster, only Abraham Taruc survives today, a stunted, 4-year-old human rag doll unable to speak or walk, barely able to move or swallow. continued... http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/000124/alliance.b.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
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