Thais protest at U.S. embassy 

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - More than 100 Thai environmentalists gathered at
the U.S. embassy Wednesday to demand that the United States take
responsibility for cleaning up some toxic Vietnam-War chemical defoliants
recently discovered at a provincial airport. They presented an embassy
official with two sacks of dirt which they said was contaminated soil.
Drums of buried chemicals were found by workers expanding a runway at a
provincial airport, near the seaside resort of Hua Hin. The workers
renovating the runway fell ill, and fears arose that the chemical might be
Agent Orange dumped by U.S. military units who were stationed there in the
1960s and 70s. See full story
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