| 31. | Research has shown a link between spina bifida and exposure to the chemical defoliant Agent Orange during service in Vietnam.
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| 32. | In 1969, studies linked the herbicide to birth defects, and use of all defoliants was stopped by 1971.
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| 33. | About half of the Ranch Hand group, he said, had average levels of the defoliant in their blood.
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| 34. | He is also expected to talk privately with leaders about research on the effects of the toxic defoliant Agent Orange.
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| 35. | American planners say they intend to cover as much acreage with defoliant as possible to stop the replanting of coca.
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| 36. | In Vietnam, U . S . aircraft sprayed 20 million gallons of defoliants to deny cover to Communist forces.
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| 37. | During the Malayan Emergency, in 1952, he was instrumental in the use of sodium trichloroacetate as a defoliant.
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| 38. | Where bombs and defoliants parted the triple-canopy jungle, the camouflage of tree branches could not mask the convoys.
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| 39. | In many places, the Vietnamese countryside has not rebounded from the defoliant, but the environmental damage is not uniform.
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| 40. | He once argued in a study that dioxin, a component of the defoliant Agent Orange, is not a carcinogen.
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