[CPEO-MEF] GLOBAL - Agent Orange at Danang (Vietnam)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Agent Orange Work Progresses in Vietnam

By BEN STOCKING
Associated Press
February 1, 2008

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — More than three decades after the Vietnam War, the 
United States and Vietnam have just completed temporary steps to contain 
dioxin contamination at a former U.S. air base in Danang.

But the U.S. government, as well as U.S. foundations and corporations, 
should contribute more money to clean up the site permanently, members 
of a joint U.S.-Vietnamese working group on Agent Orange said Friday.

The panel members visited Vietnam this week to meet with U.S. and 
Vietnamese officials and see the containment work done in Danang, which 
was completed on Jan. 15.

It will cost at least $14 million to remove dioxin from the site, one of 
several Agent Orange "hot spots" in Vietnam, said the panel members, who 
are experts on the environmental, health and political consequences of 
the herbicide.

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For the entire article, see
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g2oxnn2wesnhuI1PWLpvAPI_XDHQD8UHLLC84

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Lenny Siegel
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