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"However, this AAAS study will be made entirely independently of other organizations," he added.
U.S. herbicide and defoliant sprayings have covered "approximately 7,000 square miles, almost the same as the area of Massachusetts," Meselson said.
In response to evidence linking some herbicides to birth defects in rats and mice, the Federal government recently restrietel the use of "2,4,5-T" by Government agencies. Another chemical, "2,4-D," currently popular in military spraying programs, has also come under fire from scientists, but has not...
The AAAS has campaigned for a study of herbicide use in Vietnam for the last three years, according to the Association's magazine, Science, but the Defense Department has stalled on these requests until now.
Federal budget cuts struck home last week when the National Acrobatics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Department of Housing and Urban Development predicted the demise of eight urban renewal projects in Boston and Cambridge.