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(Jul. 15, 1991) Veterans:Paying for Agent Orange
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
July 15, 1991 Misleading Labels
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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NATION, Page 25
American Notes
VETERANS
Paying for Agent Orange
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<p> Vietnam veterans won another skirmish last week in the battle
over Agent Orange, but the government continues to hold its
ground. For 14 years now, veterans' groups have charged that the
herbicide used to defoliate the jungle canopy was toxic to
soldiers. More than 35,000 have filed claims for diseases like
cancer and birth defects in their children. Last week the
Department of Veterans Affairs announced that a limited number
of vets who contracted peripheral neuropathy, a nervous disease
that causes numbness and tingling, within 10 years of their
service will be allowed disability payments of up to $1,620 a
month.
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<p> That marked the second victory this year: in February the
VA awarded similar payments to vets with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
and soft-tissue sarcoma, two forms of cancer. But the
government continues to reject claims that Agent Orange causes
lung cancer, and veterans argue that the VA imposes so many
restrictions that few survivors will actually benefit.
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