U.S. joins with Vietnam for Agent Orange talks

Sunday, March 3, 2002

HANOI, Vietnam -- Researchers at the first U.S.-Vietnamese conference on Agent Orange, a defoliant used by U.S. forces during the Vietnam War, said they will report "extraordinarily" high levels of cancer-causing dioxin in people living in heavily sprayed areas.

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