Delmer talked about Agent Orange, the defoliant that rained down on the jungle from U.S. planes.
In a key scene, she visits Siamese twins in the Agent Orange ward of a Saigon hospital.
It was hard to know what was fact - reports that the police were using Agent Orange had us spooked.
Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange, a poisonous defoliant used by America in the war, are still seeking compensation.
Agent Orange, depleted uranium, nuclear waste, and the list goes on and on.
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For our Vietnam veterans, we declared that more illnesses are now presumed connected to your exposure to Agent Orange.
Vietnam claims that 1m of its people suffer from ailments as a result of America's use of Agent Orange.
American ex-servicemen exposed to Agent Orange have mounted a successful case against Dow Chemical and Monsanto, the companies that made it.
He says learned he had chemical diabetes nearly 10 years ago after he was exposed to Agent Orange during his Vietnam tours.
At Dow Chemical (nyse: DOW - news - people ), someone censored details about the company's birth-defect-inducing Agent Orange.
At Dow Chemical, someone censored details about the company's birth-defect-inducing Agent Orange.
The chemical manufacturer has had a chequered history, including making napalm and Agent Orange for the US government during the Vietnam War.
And they have said all these lovely things about Agent Orange.
They presented findings that suggest that a carcinogenic component of Agent Orange has found its way into the food supply in some parts of Vietnam.
Between 1962 and 1971, American aircraft sprayed millions of gallons of Agent Orange over southern Vietnam, in an effort to clear the jungle foliage that helped to hide communist guerrillas.
We have taken steps to help veterans exposed to Agent Orange in Vietnam and those who suffer from a range of ailments related to their service in the first Gulf War.
At the same time, our outstanding VA Secretary, Ric Shinseki, is working every day to build a 21st century VA. Many of our Vietnam vets are already submitting their Agent Orange claims electronically.
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Mr Parra thinks this may reflect Dow's memory of the way the American government left it to pick up the legal fallout from the use of the notorious Agent Orange defoliant during the Vietnam war.
He just briefly ran through some of the themes, from a growing trade relationship to the joint search for Americans missing in Vietnam and the long-term effects of America's use of the defoliant Agent Orange in the war.
"In a program as large as this, you will get claims that are suspicious, " said Mr. Feinberg, who has also overseen programs that compensate victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and Vietnam War veterans injured by Agent Orange.
During the Reagan Administration, he served for a year as the number-two official at the Veterans Administration, but departed when the agency head sought to cut veteran benefits and downplayed the dangers of exposure to Agent Orange (a herbicide used extensively by U.S. forces in Indochina).
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Similarly, someone on a Dow Chemical computer deleted details of the company's development of birth defect-inducing Agent Orange and the continuing controversy around the Bhopal disaster, in which Union Carbide, a firm that Dow later acquired, was responsible for the death of as many as 22, 000 Indians.
In the town of Bien Hoa, a former storage depot for Agent Orange and the site of a large spill in 1970, American researchers recently found that 95% of the people they tested had abnormally high levels of dioxin, which has links with cancer, birth defects and liver damage.
Similarly, someone on a Dow Chemical (nyse: DOW - news - people ) computer deleted details of the company's development of birth defect-inducing Agent Orange and the continuing controversy around the Bhopal disaster, in which Union Carbide, a firm that Dow later acquired, was responsible for the death of as many as 22, 000 Indians.
Last year, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs decided that the link between air-borne dioxin (an ingredient in Agent Orange, and also a common air-borne pollutant emitted by waste incineration, some chemical manufacturing processes, cars and trucks, and other industrial sources that burn fuel) and diabetes was so strong, it compensated 270, 000 veterans for diabetes linked to dioxin exposure.
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