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Wednesday, April 18, 1979
University Daily Kansan
Agent Orange . . .
From nage one
"We probably know more about it than any other chemical," Richard Kociba, a pathologist for Dow Chemical Co. at its Midland, Mich., plant where Agent Orange is manufactured, said. "It's been in use since 1948."
ACCORDING TO DOW, the VA and the department of Defense, there is no actionable case.
Orange could produce any long-range effects on humans.
A 1978 Air force report, however, acknowledged that the topic was still open. And the departments of Defense and Health, Education and Welfare are beginning follow-up studies of people exposed to airborne accidents by industrial accidents in 1249 and 1376.
The study by the American Health Foundation reported 35 cases of cancer.
including rare kidney and testicular cancers, among the first 50% surveys surveyed.
cers, among the first 336 veterans surveyed.
Why, if Agent Orange can't be held responsible, are so many veterans facing such severe problems?
LEBINSON, WHO has been studying veterans' claims for more than a year, since a Chicago Orange representative first theorized the Agent Orange connection on a local television documentary, said he had not yet found the answer to that question.
Ma, Darrell Stephens, assistant chief of police said a Lawrence Police Department vehicle was following an ambulance, which was westbound on Ninth Street, when the police car struck David Tubbs, Topeka sobornbore.
A 22-year-old student was struck by a Lawrence Police Department squad car en route to a medical emergency about 10:30 last night.
Stephens said Tubbs evidently walked between the police car and the ambulance at the scene.
Student hit by police car en route to false alarm
He said both vehicles were operating sirens and red lights.
A nursing supervisor at Lawrence Memorial Hospital said last night that Tubbs' left leg was fractured in the accident. His condition was unknown last night.
Stephens would not release the name of the driver of the police car last night. He said an investigation of the accident would take place today.
Stephens said the vehicles were en route to two persons who reportedly were lying on the ground not breathing. He said the persons were not found to need medical attention, and there was no indication that the medical emergency was purposefully turned in falsely.
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"Why haven't they notified all Vietnamese veterans, about the possibility of a war?"
"I don't have a good explanation. There could be a myriad of reasons why they have not been given the chance."
Tim Caster, a Buffalo, N.Y., junior who said he has had a skin rash since he was in Vietnam nine years ago, has another question he thinks the VA should answer.
But Lebbinum said the VA had always urged veterans to report any problems that arose.
DESPITE THE VA's study of the Agent Orange problem, others echo Caster's
suspicions about the agency's determination to solve the controversy.
"They want to keep this thing pretty well hidden. I don't know why," Moore said.
AND MOORE SAID it would take congressional action "to get the VA offender" on the subject. None is planned, according to Moore, but he said he had found most Kansas representatives sympathetic.
Hand, Campus Veterans president, did not serve in Vietnam and was never exposed to the VA. In addition, he received minimum disability payments to all the veterans who may have been exposed to the herbicide could cost the VA as much as $18 per month for each veteran, half of the VA's total annual budget.
Lebinson said it would take large numbers of Vietnam veterans with similar problems to convince the VA to pay any disability claims.
Both sides do agree that the Agent Orange controversy is a problem that may be solved.
"Sometimes I wonder if we'll ever stop fighting this war," Moore said.
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