AAP General News (Australia)
01-01-2011
FED:Vietnam vets frustrated over Agent Orange
EDS: EMBARGOED TO 0001 JANUARY 1, 2011, AEDT
By Max Blenkin
CANBERRA, Jan 1 AAP - Australia's Vietnam veterans were getting sick, and evidence
emerging from the United States made clear the likely cause - a chemical compound called
Agent Orange.
In a new era of militancy, the veterans formed their own association to press for a
better deal from the government which had dispatched them to fight in the jungles of Vietnam.
Cabinet papers for 1980 - released by the National Archives of Australia under the
30-year rule - …
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