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- <text id=91TT1550>
- <title>
- July 15, 1991: American Notes:Veterans
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- July 15, 1991 Misleading Labels
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- 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.
- </p>
- <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.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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