"Agent Orange, the Next Generation"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Agent Orange, the Next Generation

By WILLIAM GLABERSON
New York Times
August 8, 2004

In 1984, after years of battles over science and damage tabulations, 
seven American chemical companies settled a huge class-action suit by 
Vietnam veterans who claimed that the defoliant Agent Orange caused 
cancer, birth defects and a nightmarish brew of other health problems.

The companies paid out $180 million. By 1997, after the last payments 
had been made, 291,000 people had received benefits. The settlement was 
reached after a federal judge persuaded the companies to buy themselves 
out of protracted litigation. It was called a landmark legal peace on a 
brutally contentious issue, and it was supposed to be the final word 
from the courts on Agent Orange, a defoliant containing the deadly 
substance dioxin.

But today, a new cast of plaintiffs, this time Vietnamese as well as 
American, has returned to the same American court seeking justice and 
dollars. One suit filed on behalf of as many as four million Vietnamese 
says their land and people were so poisoned by Agent Orange that 
supplying it to the military amounted to war crimes by the chemical 
companies.

In other suits, American veterans say they have only now come to learn 
of their devastating health problems, with the money gone.

…

for the entire article, see
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/08/nyregion/08orange.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org

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