[CPEO-MEF] Guam Agent Orange

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Residents speak out on Agent Orange
Act would compensate those exposed

By Brett Kelman
Pacific Daily News (GU)
December 18, 2007

About a dozen residents testified at a Guam Legislature public hearing 
yesterday to support a resolution that would elicit compensation for 
military employees who were exposed to Agent Orange, a toxic substance 
used during the Vietnam War.

The Legislature will vote on the bill during its next session. If it 
passes, the Legislature will request that Guam Delegate Madeleine 
Bordallo pursue an amendment to the "Civilian Agent Orange Act of 2007," 
which compensates civilian employees who were exposed to the herbicide 
while working in Vietnam.

The amendment would change the act to include employees on Guam also.

Manny Cruz, the local American Federation of Government Employees Union 
president, said the evidence that civilians were exposed is strong, 
since Agent Orange was stored and loaded onto bombers at Andersen Air 
Force Base.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.guampdn.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071218/NEWS01/712180305/1002

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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