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Article: Agent Orange conference tackles Vietnam War's lingering "ghost"
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- March 3, 2002
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Dateline: HANOI, Vietnam
The first-ever Vietnamese-U.S. scientific conference on Agent Orange
opened Sunday in a bid to deal with what the U.S. ambassador to Vietnam
called "the one significant ghost" remaining from the Vietnam War.
Hundreds of researchers from Vietnam, the United States and other
nations are attending the three-day meeting to exchange information
on the effects of the wartime defoliant, which contained the highly
toxic substance dioxin.
U.S. Ambassador Raymond Burghardt said the two countries have successfully
dealt with the issues of missing American soldiers and establishment
of trade and diplomatic ties on their long road to ...