New agent orange research: answers at last?

From: The Nation | Date: April 11, 1987| Author: Gardner, Janet | Copyright information

NEW AGENT ORANGE RESEARCH

Answers At Last?

Last February scientists and veteran's advocatesfrom sixteen states gathered at a conference sponsored by the William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, Joiner, a veteran of the Vietnam War era, died of cancer at the age of 41. The planned Keynote speaker, Elmo Zumwalt 3d, whose father, Admiral Zumwalt, had ordered the spraying of Agent Orange, sen...

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