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University Daily Kansan, July 10. 1980
VA, Dow deny health danger from Agent Orange
Bv HURST LAVIANA
Staff Reporter
The Veterans Administration has refused to recognize officially that poisoning from the defoliant Agent Orange exists, and Dow Chemical Co. says there is no evidence to link Agent Orange with health problems.
But John Yarnwell, Kansas City, Ks., senior, and Jimmy "Sail" Tucker, 1613 Kenwood, with at least 5,000 other Vietnam veterans nationwide think they may have been poisoned by the defoliant while in Vietnam.
Yarnevich and Tucker both said this week that when they went to the VA hospital in Kansas City, Mo. more than a year ago, they were given no indications that they might be suffering from Agent Orange poisoning.
TUCKER SAID the doctors told him he would have to learn to live with his pain. Yarnville said the doctors gave him a lesson and told him he had a nervous disorder.
Robert Godfrey, chief of staff at the VA Hospital in Kansas City, said they have Agent Orange poisoning who asked to fill out forms telling where and when they served in Vietnam. The man then is stored in a computer, he said.
Godfrey said the VA does not grant disability claims based solely on exposure to Agent Orange, but he personally did not rule out the possibility that Agent Orange poisoning exists.
"I'm darn suspicious about the whole thing," he said.
JOHN TERZANO, MEMBERSHIP coordinator for the Vietnam Veterans of America, said this week that he was on a vacation with his refusal to support Agent Orange victims.
"For an agency whose sole responsibility is to serve the veterans, it is clearly shirking its responsibility," he said.
Terzoa said that Max Cieland, director of the VA, ignored five studies released by the EPA earlier this year and agent Orange to cancer in humans.
"He was a politician before he came to the office, and he has been using the office as a stepping-stone to a higher office. He is clearly not an advocate of Vietnam veterans, and he has clearly not been effective," Terzano said.
WHILE THE VETERAN'S groups are pulling the VA one way, Dow Chemical is pulling it the other.
Barred from suing the government directly, veterans who think they have Agent Orange poisoning now are suing Dow for more than $4 billion. But Dow says that Agent Orange is not the cause of the veterans' problems.
"Our basic point is that there is no medical or scientific evidence that links Agent Orange with the health problems some veterans are attributing to exposures to Agent Orange." Schneider said.
Phil Schneider, manager of corporate-media relations for Dow in Midland, Mich., said yesterday that he expected eventually to see evidence to
Dow still manufactures the herbicide 2,4,5-T, which was one of the agents of Ancyl Orangetic restricted use. The 2,4,5-T more than a year ago, but Schneider said the
WHILE THE DIFFERENT interest groups have drawn their battle lines, the following is known about Agent Orange:
Between 1962 and 1970 more than 10 million gallons of Agent Orange were sprayed on the forests of Vietnam. The Defense Department officially used the use of the defoliant on April 15, 1970, in contained traches of dioxin, universally regarded as one of the most toxic substances known to man.
Orange. A Nov. 19, 1979 General Accounting Office report titled "U.S. Ground Troops Were Sprayed With Agent Orange." The large number of marines were in, or close to, areas sprayed with Agent Orange. The report said Army records were incomplete and could not provide an account of exposure to Army troops.
DIOXIN HAS BEEN found in Vietnamese veterans. A VA study released last year showed that small amounts of dioxin were found in some veterans, but that it was also found in a control group Vietnam. The amounts of dioxin in the
Vietnam veterans were higher, however.
Studies have shown that dioxin can cause cancer and miscarriages in laboratory animals.
One study of humans has linked Agent Orange with cancer in humans. In the January-June 1777 issue of L Lancet magazine, a Spanish pharmacology professor reported that the incidence of hepatic cancer in Vietnam was much higher than the cases Agent Orange was used. Between 1966 and 1961, 159 cases were reported. Between 1962 and 1968, 791 cases were reported.
Some veterans were exposed to Agent
Commission selects consultants for mall
The firm was one of six interviewed last week by the Lawrence City Commission at a public meeting in the Lawrence Public Library.
"They have three attributes," Clark said. "They have a sensitive architect, a good management person, and they have good contacts with the major retailers."
restrictions were based on "inadequate and inaccurate studies."
Commissioner Barkley Clark said the firm, which will receive $55,000 to $40,000 for the study, was as "good a team" as they had seen.
Robert Teska, senior partner of Robert Teska and Associates, said during his company's interview July 1
The Commission voted unanimously to hire the consulting firm of Robert B. Teska and Associates to undertake a downtown redevelopment study.
By LAURA LUCKERT Staff Reporter
Astronomy camp nebulous event
Movie theaters, restaurants and conference centers should be developed to ensure that downtown Lawrence will be the center of community life, said representatives of the consulting firm Litigation by the Lawrence City Commission.
By ERNIE DAVIS Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
that his consulting firm was primarily interested in strengthening downtown Lawrence by involving the public and private groups in its redevelopment study.
The firm will work three to four months with the city manager and his staff on the redevelopment study.
During the interview, Commissioner Barkley Clark expressed concern over the reluctance of the major retailers — Macy's, JC Penney and Sears — to build a downtown mall. Teska said that in 2016, he found stores they found that retailers would meet the standards to accommodate a downtown location if there was a market.
Teska and Associates will be present when the City Commission meets with Jacobs, Visciori and Jacobs, a Cleveland, Ohio developer, July 16 at the Tecumseh industrialia to review the construction company's plans for a downtown mail.
Teska said the tasks they would perform for the redevelopment study would include an attitudinal survey, interviews with the public and the development of a city-wide retail strategy.
Peering through the eyepiece at the stars, the young man wrestled with the 27-inch telescope, trying to find the Dumbbell Nebulae.
Three astronomy campers moved around the darkened dome restlessly, anxious to make photographic plates of the stars.
The man rotated the dome, battled with the telescope again and found the nebulae. Everyone looked at it before the eyepiece was removed.
ASTRONOMY CAMP IS not run like other camps because of its nature, John P. Davidson, chairman of the physics department, said he. He tries to keep it "free and easy."
Tom Collison, Denver senior, said yesterday that the camp is probably the most diversified at the University.
He said that during the afternoons the campers, all high school seniors, photographed and drew the sun and worked in astronomy labs.
The labs teach campers telescope properties, the sources of x-rays, how to classify the stars by the color of light they emit, how to measure the mass of the earth using Kepler's laws and other astronomy-related topics.
"We subject them to an intense astronomy course at the basic level to teach them the scientific method of observation and analysis." Collison said.
Davidson said the campers were eligible for credit in Astronomy 196 if they returned to KU to study
During the evenings the campers
AFTER SEEING TWO films on unmanned exploration of the planets, the campers hone their newly-developed telescopes by discovering different objects in the telescopes.
Afterward, the campers attended a lecture and discussion on black holes. Collison said it started as a lecture, but not because of the number of questions.
"That is the thing about black holes," he said. "We do not know enough about them. There are thousands of questions which can be asked, but . . ."
Not all campers attended the lecture. Some had not made photographic plates the night before, so Brungardt helped them try again.
Others used the time to make prints from the plates.
Tuesday afternoon the campers took a field trip to the planetarium at Missouri Western State College in St. Joseph, Mo.
Brungardt helped campers make prints, then positioned the telescope on
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He said the astronomy campers enjoyed staying up late. They do not have to get up early like the other campers. He said they had been at the observatory until 1 a.m. Tuesday making photographic plates.
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COLLISON SAID THE time at the observatory was split between looking at the stars and photographing them.
watch films until dark and then use the observatory on top of Lindley Hall.
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Three more campers took turns at the telescope.
When they were done, the campers went to catch what they could of the lecture.
The campers groaned when he told them they would have to watch the guide star for eight minutes while the plate was exposed.
HE TOLD THEM how to find a guide star so they could keep the plate centered on the same section of the sky to get a clear photograph.
The first camper clamped the plate to the telescope, took 30 seconds to get the feel of the controls and exposed the plate. Eight minutes later he finished and took the plate to the darkroom for developing.
the Dumbell Nebulae. He talked about the idiosyncracies of the scope and answered campers' questions.
The Orion Nebula is a cloud of gas going through the same process of star formation that scientists believe created our solar system.
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