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2F March 13, 1972 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH U.S. Denies Testing Nerve Gas In Cambodia SALES No U.S. ground troops were operating openly in Cambodia in 1968, but the area described is near the central highlands of South Vietnam. Goode said the word malaria probably was used as a cover Starting Thursday, March 16, everyone who comes to Target will receive a Target Spring Fashion Shopping Guide.

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WASHINGTON, March 15 (AP) The Department of Defense denies an ecology magazine's report that the United States tested deadly nerve gas on a North Vietnamese outpost in Cambodia three years ago. Earth magazine, published in San Francisco, said in an article by managing editor Gerard Van der Leun that the target of the experiment in the summer of 1968 was an outpost of the Ninety-fourth North Vietnamese Recovery Group about 10 miles from Cambodia's northeastern border near the Ho Chi Minh trail. Van der Leun said the VX nerve gas was dropped in two 50-pound cannisters by Air Force planes as a test of the gas's combat effectiveness. The article gave no attribution for the report, but James Goode, editor and publisher of Earth, said last night, "We trust the authenticity of our I 's the responsibility of Congress to determine if this information that we've devel oped is indeed a a Goode said. "It's far beyond the capability of a small maga zine to research this adequate ly.

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