US defence secretary visits former base contaminated by Agent Orange
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Channel: AP Archive · 2018 · News & Politics
(17 Oct 2018) US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis got a firsthand look at the enduring costs of fighting the Vietnam War on Wednesday. Mattis visited an air base north of Ho Chi Minh City that was heavily contaminated in the late 1960s and early 1970s by American forces through storage and spillage of the chemical defoliant Agent Orange. Four years ago the US pledged to clean and restore the parts of Bien Hoa air base that were contaminated. The US Agency for International Development soon will begin a soil restoration project at the base estimated to take several years and cost 390 million US dollars. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/966707fb4bd32e7cc9c3b4338364bd15
