PARIS – Activists gathered Saturday in Paris to support people exposed to Agent Orange during the Vietnam War, after a French court examined the case of a French-Vietnamese woman who sued 14 companies that produced and sold the powerful defoliant dioxin used by U.S.
troops. Tran To Nga, a 78-year-old former journalist, described in a book how she breathed some Agent Orange in 1966, when she was a member of the Vietnamese Communists, or Viet Cong, that fought against South Vietnam and the United States. “Because of that, I lost one child due to heart defects.
I have two other daughters who were born with malformations. And my grandchildren, too,” she told The Associated Press. She filed a lawsuit in 2014 in France against firms that produced