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USA: WASHINGTON: SURVEY FINDS NO EVIDENCE OF A GULF WAR SYNDROME
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In a large-scale survey made public on Tuesday, the Pentagon says it has found no evidence of a Gulf War Syndrome.
Many veterans of the Gulf War say they suffer from a mystery ailment, possibly a parasite or chemical war...
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KUWAIT: TROOPS IN GULF REGION TO BE VACCINATED AGAINST ANTHRAX
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Despite a U-N agreement to end the crisis between Iraq and the U-S, American and British forces plan to vaccinate all their troops in the Gulf against anthrax.
After the Pentagon's announcement earlier this week that all U-S...
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USA - Gulf War Syndrome
President Clinton on Tuesday (7/1) formally accepted the report of a
presidential commission set up two years ago to investigate the mysterious illness afflicting veterans of the Gulf War, called Gulf War Syndrome.
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USA: GULF WAR SYNDROME - PB DRUG MAY BE THE CAUSE
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American troops suffering from the so-called "Gulf War Syndrome" may have been affected by a drug given by their own side, according to a new study in the United States.
The report says the drug - known as PB - cannot be...
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USA: WASHINGTON: NEW REPORT ON GULF WAR ILLNESS RELEASED
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A new report on the 1991 Gulf War has concluded there is no clear proof that exposure to nerve gas caused mysterious illnesses among American Gulf War soldiers.
But senators who ordered the investigation say nerve gas is a...
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USA: GOVERNMENT PROMISE FURTHER INVESTIGATIONS INTO GULF WAR ILLNESSES
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President Clinton promised Persian Gulf War veterans Monday the U-S government will keep searching for an explanation to the illnesses that many of them have suffered.
Since the end of the war in 1991, thousands of veterans...
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(V) IRAQ: CONFERENCE IN BAGHDAD EXPLORES RISE IN CANCER CASES
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A two day conference has opened in Baghdad to consider the increase in cancer cases in Iraq since the Gulf War.
The symposium is being attended by an American and two Gulf War veterans who are urging the gathering of Iraqi...
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USA: WASHINGTON: GULF WAR SYNDROME INVESTIGATION
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The U-S First Lady, Hillary Clinton, has opened a symposium in Washington DC to investigate the so-called Gulf War Syndrome.
She told veterans, suffering from undiagnosed symptoms, that the Clinton administration would...
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USA:WASHINGTON:SYMPOSIUM OPENS TO INVESTIGATE GULF WAR SYNDROME
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The U-S First Lady, Hillary Clinton, has opened a symposium in Washington D-C to investigate the so-called Gulf War Syndrome.
She told veterans, suffering from undiagnosed symptoms, that the Clinton administration would do...
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USA: TROOPS IN GULF MAY HAVE BEEN EXPOSED TO CHEMICAL WEAPONS
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A CIA study has revealed that more than 15,000 U-S troops could have been exposed to chemical weapons during the Gulf War.
Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon said that officials have already begun contacting about...
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USA: TEAM INVESTIGATING GULF WAR SYNDROME TO BE REORGANISED
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The U-S Department of Defence has announced a reorganisation of its team which investigates the so-called Gulf War Syndrome.
The department is boosting both the team's budget and staffing level to help it investigate...
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USA: PENTAGON STUDY INTO ORIGINS OF GULF WAR ILLNESSES
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A new Anglo-American study is ruling out a suspicious liquid found at a Kuwaiti school as a possible cause of the mysterious group of illnesses known as Gulf War Syndrome.
Pentagon officials unveiling the study on Thursday...
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USA: PENTAGON RELEASES NEW FIGURES CONCERNING GULF WAR ILLNESS
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The United States Department of Defense now says the number of US troops exposed to poison gas from exploded Iraqi weapons shortly after the Gulf War has risen to nearly 99-thousand.
The new figures released on Thursday...
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USA: WASHINGTON: MEMORIAL HOLIDAY WEEKEND UPDATE
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U-S Gulf War veterans have accused the Clinton administration of indifference to their health problems.
In the U-S alone, tens of thousand of soldiers who served in the 1991 war have developed a series of unexplained...
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USA: DOCTORS ARE CONVINCED IRAQI REGIME USED BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS
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Six years after the end of the Gulf War, some veterans and doctors are convinced the Iraqi regime was using biological weapons against U-S forces -- perhaps even before the war started.
That kind of exposure may explain...
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USA: SOLDIERS MAY HAVE BEEN EXPOSED TO TOXIC CHEMICALS IN GULF WAR
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The Pentagon has announced that American troops who destroyed an Iraqi ammunition depot in 1991 may have unknowingly been exposed to harmful chemicals.
The soldiers who destroyed the bunker in southern Iraq were unaware that...
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USA: INVESTIGATION ORDERED INTO USE OF CHEMICAL AGENTS IN GULF WAR
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U-S President Bill Clinton has promised to get to the bottom of a controversy over troops being exposed to chemical agents during the Gulf War.
He's ordered an investigation into a report that army officers were told an Iraqi...
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USA: GULF: POSSIBLY 20,000 SERVICE PEOPLE EXPOSED TO CHEMICAL WEAPONS
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The U-S Defence Department now says as many as 20-thousand American servicemen and women could have been exposed to chemical weapons during the Gulf War.
The number is four times higher than previously estimated.
The...
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USA: VIRGINIA: PENTAGON BRIEFING CONCERNING GULF WAR ILLNESS
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The Pentagon now says nearly 100-thousand US troops may have been exposed to trace amounts of Iraqi poison gas.
That's five times the previous estimate of 20-thousand.
The Pentagon still insists this exposure is not the...
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presser on Gulf War syndrome
Paris - April 24, 2001
1. Wide view pan of press conference
2. Cutaways
3. SOUNDBITE: (French) Professor Roger Salamon, head of the Gulf War Syndrome Commission
"The conclusion of the report is that there is no Gulf War Syndrome,...
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USA:PENTAGON DISMISSES ACCUSATIONS OF EVIDENCE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS
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The U-S Pentagon Thursday dismissed accusations by a former CIA analyst that U-S military units deployed in the Persian Gulf War contained abundant evidence of exposure to Iraqi chemical weapons.
The Pentagon said there...
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USA: DEPLETED URANIUM SCARE
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Pentagon spokesman Ken Bacon, claims tests carried out by the U.S. have failed, in the past to find any connection between exposure to depleted uranium and the constellation of illnesses and symptoms plaguing American...
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USA: PRESIDENTIAL PANEL INVESTIGATION INTO GULF WAR SYNDROME
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Stress is the most likely source of a host of ailments reported among veterans of the Persian Gulf War, members of a U-S presidential panel said Wednesday.
The panel wants the Pentagon and other government agencies to...
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USA: PENTAGON FIND NO EVIDENCE OF "GULF WAR SYNDROME"
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There is no evidence that Gulf War veterans suffer from an unusual illness acquired while taking part in the conflict.
That's the word from the Pentagon following a study of over ten-thousand U-S veterans who say they suffer...