University Daily Kansan, January 30, 1985
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CAMPUS AND AREA
Settlement too small, lawyer says
By United Press International
HOUSTON — The $180 million Agent Orange settlement is a mockery of justice and should be dumped because it would provide only small sums of money to affected Vietnam veterans, an attorney who helped negotiate the agreement said yesterday.
Benton Musslewhite resigned from a nine-member panel of attorneys involved in the veterans' suit against seven chemical companies who manufactured Agent Orange. He left the panel so he could work against
the May 1984 settlement, which was negotiated with a federal judge in New York, where the original suit was filed.
The attorney has asked the judge to rescind his formal approval of the case.
Musselwhite said the $180 million figure was based on estimates that 20,000 veterans would file claims. But more than 180,000 claims already have been filed, and the number is expected to exceed 200,000. Musselwhite said
"THIS COULD BE the greatest travesty of justice in the history of our system of jurisprudence," he
said. "This is simply not the right settlement for the veterans of the United States.
"If I had thought that the claims would exceed 100,000, there is no way on God's earth that I would have voted for this settlement, even on a tentative basis."
Under the settlement, a woman who claimed her husband died of cancer caused by the herbicide could receive only about $1,000, he said.
"Should she settle for that? Would you sell her for that?" Musslewhite said. "It makes a mockery of justice."
Spock modernizes book on child-rearing
SEATTLE — Fear of nuclear war is the greatest threat to children's health, according to a new version of Benjamin Spock's classic child-rearing book.
A revised edition of "Baby and Child Care," to be released in March, also contains new material on sexual abuse, single parenthood and working mothers, a co-author said yes terday.
By United Press International
Spock, 81-year-old pediatrician,
collaborated with Michael Rothenberg,
a pediatrician and child psychiatrist,
to make the changes.
Rothenberg, a former student of Spock's, said the new book reflects the changes in society since the book was published more than 40 years ago.
He said the revision contains medical advice for children and a
chapter on understanding kids' fears about nuclear war.
"We now know that children of all ages are universally anxious and frightened by nuclear war," said Rothenberg, who has three children. "There is no way to make them not frightened."
Senator asks for records on Mengele
Today's households, which may contain a diversity of parent types, are not necessarily harmful to children, he said.
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Sen. Alfonse D'Amato, R.N.Y., filed a federal lawsuit yesterday seeking confidential Army documents he says might be information on the whereabouts of Joseph Mengle, the "Angel of Death" at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Mengele, chief physician at Auschwitz, is believed to still be alive and is generally regarded as the most heinous Nazi war criminal who has never been caught and tried.
D 'Amato said he hoped the four documents the suit seeks "would provide us with new information explaining how Dr. Mengele has escaped apprehension since the end of World War II." He said they could provide some information about people or organizations who might have helped Mengele Canada in 1982 and could help find him now.
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