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Agent Orange Group Works on Action Plan
Published in United Press International: April 22, 2009
DA NANG, Vietnam, April 22 (UPI) — Groups advocating for people affected by the U.S. military's spraying of Agent Orange during the Vietnam war met in Da Nang this week to work on an action plan.
Representatives of the Ford Foundation, UNICEF, local and national government departments and victims' groups discussed possible solutions Tuesday to resolve health problems among the Vietnamese people since the defoliant, which contained the chemical dioxin, was used in the Southeast Asian country in the 1960s, the Voice of Vietnam reported.
Vietnamese officials described clean-up efforts at so-called hot spots found at Da Nang and Bien Hoa airports.
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