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Article: Attorneys give closing arguments in Umatilla, Ore., chemical depot trial.
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- June 30, 2004
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By Mary Hopkin, Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jun. 30--PORTLAND, Ore. -- Army attorneys argued Tuesday that more than four dozen construction workers who became ill while working at the Umatilla Chemical Depot have failed to prove that chemical weapons were the cause.
But attorneys for the workers said the Army has refused to take responsibility for the accident or to provide any other reasonable explanation for the symptoms the workers suffered on Sept. 15, 1999.
Tuesday was the final day of the second phase of the trial between the workers and the Army. The case now goes to U.S. District Court ...