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...thousands of Viet Nam veterans, the longest battle of America's most unpopular war still rages-in U.S. courtrooms. Last May a $180 million settlement was reached in the class-action suit against seven chemical companies that manufactured Agent Orange, the dioxin-contaminated defoliant that the military sprayed over Viet Nam from 1965 to 1970. The plaintiffs claimed that Agent Orange had caused, among other things, skin disorders in many of the soldiers and birth defects in some of their children. Judge Jack Weinstein of New York, who worked out the mass-damage award, is now holding hearings...
...about their suffering. Adding tension to the proceedings was a study released by Atlanta's Centers for Disease Control, which concluded that soldiers exposed to Agent Orange had no greater risk of having babies with birth defects than did the general population. Said Woody Willis, head of the Nam Vets of Georgia organization: "My gut reaction is that they're trying to sell us down the river like they have in the past...
...women in uniform make up the largest concentration of U.S. armed forces overseas. Like U.S. military personnel everywhere, they show the beneficial effects of four years of sharply increased spending by the Reagan Administration on military pay, equipment and facilities, as well as a post-Viet Nam restoration of pride in the armed forces. The troops are also benefiting from the climb of the U.S. dollar and a decline in the sporadic leftist terrorism that plagued West Germany from the late 1960s until 1982. The result is a big increase in the eagerness and capability of the soldiers...
Keynes, who held that deficit spending could pump up a slack economy. Johnson later balked at the pleas of his Keynesian advisers to pay for the Viet Nam War with higher taxes in order to keep the economy from overheating and pushing up prices. Nonetheless, so prestigious had Keynes' views become that even Republican President Nixon could declare in 1971, "I am now a Keynesian...
Although the witnesses are markedly different, common threads run through much of their testimony. They seem united in the conviction that the U.S. could have won the war: "With all the American G.I.s that were in Viet Nam, they could have put us all shoulder to shoulder and had us march from Saigon all the way up to the DMZ. Just make a sweep." Those who raise the subject agree that racism vanished on the front lines: "In the field, we had the utmost respect for each other, because when a firefight is going on and everybody is facing north...