Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Monday March ds9 IPmMii'ess Mtara ddd Agent Orange da da s - ’ HANQI (AP)— The United States and Vietnam agreed Sunday to launch a joint study on the health effects of Agent Orange the herbicide used to destroy large swaths hf forest during the Vietnam War Following a landmark con- fercnee on Agent Orange in Hanoi representatives from the US National Institute of Environmental Health and Vietnam’s National ' Environmental Agency signed a memorandum of understanding that laid out priorities for future research Scientists will investigate possible links between the chemical and miscarriages birth defects neurological disorders canCers and diabetes among other illnesses They will also do research on affected forests and look at ' ways to clean up lingering Sci-eric- es 5 i 2002 — A7 foiififiD© WASHINGTON (AR) — The US commander of the war in Afghanistan said Sunday that American forces have made new advances against the last known major pocket resistance but of have yet to find any sigh of Osama bin Laden or other 'leaders of the terrorist net-- 1 work “I have riot found any top leaders” Gen Tommy Franks said on ABCs V “This Week” Franks disputed vtj j that the battle in nigged terrain y-fsouth of Gardez which began March 2 was winding down t He said it was evolving and that US troops were being repositioned within the battlefield or on its perimeter In : some cases he said fresh ' troops were rotating in V 'Vi “I’m satisfied with our y progress up to this point” Franks said“And we’ll continue to work our way through this area until we arc satisfied that we have taken out all” of ' the enemy forces Other US defense officials said there were an estimated 200 fighters still An Afghan fighter backdroppedby tanks and armored personnel carriers pauses at a base in the outskirts holding out with at least 500 eastern Paktia province of Afghanistan on Sunday and perhaps as many as 800 killed in nine days of fighting' Instead of emerging from their dictive side” Blaha said upon spokesman said some enemy caves to fire on US and allied fighters had been captured and returning from the front “I soldiers or moving to new forcan go back and tell his family were bong interrogated but tified positions — as they did he declined to say how many everything we did” in the early days of the battle Continued from A1 One captured Arab fighter The leader of Afghanistan’s — enemy forces recently have claimed other Arabs Tajiks interim government Hamid hunkered down to avoid US and Uzbeks woe still in the Karzai sent up to 1000 addipresumably to search for fire small pockets of caves and that the tunnels had tional troops to the rcgion That change of tactic may members who might try to dip which he called the “last main collapsed in the bombing explain why the battle dubbed and Taliban base” of away through-narrogages Afghan intelligence officials ' Operation Anaconda was said in Afghanistan He acknowlIalkmpa FUl Col Rick suiting Sunday Better weath- - Thomas a spokesman at Cen- - edged however that there are US troops arriving in er conditions Sunday might tral Command headquarters areas where mailer groups Bagram said they had not also have offered more oppor- said the troops returning to are likely operating expected to find so many Tal' tunity to reposition forces forces waitiban and On Saturday Afghan fightBagram base might be moved to a different part of the battleFranks took issue with a ers told The Associated Press ing for titan when they moved field He said ground fighting statement Sunday by a into the rugged mountains of that enemy faces had taken : had subsided as an estimated and Paktia province on March 2 in caves two woe' spokesman for the Army’s refuge 200' remaining and 10th Mountain Division The soldiers were unprerunning out of ammunition Taliban members hunkered whose troops are involved in had ringed pared fa the subfreezing tern- However down in remote caves the fighting: Maj Bryan the area with land mines afo peratures at 10000feet — One of the US soldiers told reporterswho wit- some said they hadn't even heavy clouds and snow had nessed the return of several returning to Bagram 2nd Lt made brought sleeping bags They pinpoint hundred US soldiers to Christopher Blaha 24 of spoke of staying awake at bombing difficult Great Neck NY said he had the Bagram air base “The major Bryan Hilferty night and sloping by day Maj lost two friends in the Sept 11 10th Mountain Division when it was warmer fighting of the battle is over” ' terrorism attacks including Bagram is about 100 miles his best friend Andrew Ster- forth of the battle tuwrahd is giopoulos 23 an employee of headquarters for Anaconda firm Cantor the Franks said that while some ' US World Trade the at Fitzgerald moved have been troops ' Crater out of the battle area others He said he wrote wouldtake their places name on every “I don’t know that I could his one of grenades characterize it as winding “There was definitely a vin down” he said v 11 '"8 - 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