2005 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 2 Feb 2005 20:59:33 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] "No traces" of Agent Orange at Subic Bay
 
No traces of 'Agent Orange' in Subic ? SBMA

By Bebot Sison Jr.
The Philippine Star 
February 3, 2005

SUBIC BAY FREEPORT - Officials of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority
(SBMA) assured residents, investors and visitors to the Subic Bay
Freeport Zone yesterday that there are no traces of "Agent Orange," a
toxic chemical used by the United States military in the Vietnam War, in
the former American naval base. 

Reynaldo Garcia, SBMA public relations office head, told The STAR that a
news report saying that Agent Orange was shipped from New Zealand to
Vietnam through the former Subic military base "should not be a cause
for alarm." 

Garcia said the report originated from a New Zealand official who was
quoted as saying that "products used to make Agent Orange were shipped
from New Plymouth to Subic Bay in the Philippines." 

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.philstar.com/philstar/News200502039902.htm



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