[CPEO-MEF] GLOBAL: Agent Orange cleanup at Danang, Vietnam

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

US, Vietnam face Agent Orange legacy

By Ian Timberlake
AFP Google
September 23, 2009o

DANANG, Vietnam - Mai Khai contentedly grows his potatoes and melons 
smack up against an old brick wall surrounding a former US airbase in 
Vietnam which experts say remains highly contaminated.

Almost four decades after American troops stopped wartime spraying of 
Agent Orange and other herbicides containing potentially cancer-causing 
dioxin, United States and Vietnamese officials are cooperating on 
preliminary clean-up measures at the Danang airport.

Full-scale decontamination has yet to begin, though, and could take years.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hLBZotnFuse0ioSlZelFi3wXn4aw

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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
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