Agent Orange Still Haunts Vietnam, US
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By BEN STOCKING  DANANG, Vietnam - More than 30 years after the Vietnam War ended, the poisonous legacy of Agent Orange has emerged anew with a scientific study that has found extraordinarily high levels of health-threatening contamination at the former U.S. air base at Danang.
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By MARGIE MASON  By Margie Mason  The Associated Press  HANOI, Vietnam  As Nguyen Van Ninh needles his chopsticks through a steaming bowl of Vietnam's famous noodle soup, he knows it could be spiked with formaldehyde.
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Threats of violence never materialize, but problems remain
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Lyndon K. Wilson still bears the scars of shrapnel wounds he suffered as a marine in Vietnam 36 years ago when an enemy mortar round hit as he skirted a rice paddy.
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The lives of two neighbors lying disfigured and brain-damaged in small Hanoi houses will not be changed by a U.S. court hearing on Monday about victims of war-time dioxin, or "agent orange".
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A close-up chronicle of the most sustained period of street-to-street fighting that Americans have encountered since the Vietnam War.
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In the teeming markets and cafes of Little Saigon, generational changes and misgivings over his policies have weakened President Bush's support among Vietnamese-Americans. Still, few are embracing his Democratic challenger, Sen. John Kerry.
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When Iraqi insurgents this week blew up trucks carrying chlorine, the attacks conjured up frightening images of chemical warfare and soldiers choking to death on the battlefields of Belgium in World War I.
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Vietnam veterans are honored all over the country these days. However, that wasn&#39;t the way it was when the war was being waged or even after it ended.
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The battle of claims and counter-claims over Sen. John Kerry&#39;s service in Vietnam and his later anti-war activism remains at a brisk boil.
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As Nguyen Van Ninh needles his chopsticks through a steaming bowl of Vietnam's famous noodle soup, he knows it could be spiked with formaldehyde. But the thought of slurping up the same chemical used to preserve corpses isn't enough to deter him.
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By Omar Sinan and Kathy Gannon THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  HALABJA, Iraq -- These are bitter times in the town that Saddam Hussein gassed.  It's painful enough that many people still suffer the aftereffects of nerve and mustard gas nearly 20 years ago.
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Soviet-era security services are still sending shudders through the region nearly two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Almost 30 years after the last helicopter fled the roof of the US Embassy in Saigon, Vietnam remains the great American quagmire. You might think it should belong to history by now, especially
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SAN FRANCISCO Twenty years ago this week, an explosion at a Union Carbide chemical factory sent 27 tons of poisonous methyl isocyanate wafting over the slumbering residents of Bhopal, India.
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As the uproar over John Kerry&#39;s record during the Vietnam War illustrates, that polarizing conflict is still being fought. It probably will remain a flash point at least for the duration of the Vietnam-era generation.
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In the coming weeks, the U.S. and Iraq's government must still combat a resilient and dangerous insurgency outside Falluja.