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Transcript: Zumwalt Seeks More Research on Effects of Agent Orange
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- NPR Weekend Edition - Saturday
- Article date:
- September 17, 1994
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SUSAN STAMBERG, Host: This is Weekend Edition. I'm Susan Stamberg.
Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, Jr. was back in Vietnam this week, the highest
ranking U.S. veteran to return. For the man who commanded U.S. naval
forces in Southeast Asia during that war, it was an emotional and
purposeful trip. From 1962 to 1971 the U.S. military sprayed the
herbicide Agent Orange across the countryside of South Vietnam, trying
to strip away jungle foliage that camouflaged the Viet Cong enemy.
Hundreds of thousands of troops on both sides were exposed to the
chemical defoliant, which contains small amounts of dioxin. Returning
soldiers have complained of health problems which some blame ...
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