Veterans' Administration Programs in Montana: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session, June 19, 1982U.S. Government Printing Office, 1982 - 180 pages |
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Page 79 - It is the defined and consistently applied policy of the Veterans Administration to administer the law under a broad interpretation, consistent, however, with the facts shown in every case. When, after careful consideration of all procurable and assembled data, a reasonable doubt arises regarding service origin, the degree of disability, or any other point, such doubt will be resolved in favor of the claimant.
Page 155 - Biological weapons have massive, unpredictable, and potentially uncontrollable consequences. They may produce global epidemics and impair the health of future generations. I have therefore decided that: —The United States shall renounce the use of lethal biological agents and weapons and all other methods of biological warfare.
Page 78 - ... service connection for any disability due consideration shall be given to the places, types, and circumstances of his service as shown by his service record, the official history of each organization in which he served, his medical records, and all pertinent medical and lay evidence.
Page 154 - Yoshimura [Hisato noted] that at times of great frost, with temperatures below —20 [sic], people were brought out from the detachment's prison into the open. Their arms were bared and made to freeze with the help of an artificial current of air. This was done until their frozen arms, when struck with a short stick, emitted a sound resembling that which a board gives out when it is struck.
Page 78 - Administrator shall include in the regulations pertaining to service-connection of disabilities, additional provisions in effect requiring that in each case where a veteran is seeking service-connection for any disability due consideration shall be given to the places, types, and circumstances of...
Page 75 - If we can be of further assistance to you in this matter, please call on us. Sincerely yours.
Page 152 - This Japanese information is the only known source of data from scientifically controlled experiments showing the direct effect of BW agents on man. In the past it has been necessary to evaluate the effects of BW agents on man from data obtained through animal experimentation. Such evaluation is inconclusive and far less complete than results obtained from certain types of human experimentation.
Page 149 - Ishii states that if guaranteed immunity from 'War Crimes' in documentary form for himself, superiors and subordinates, he can describe program in detail. "Ishii claims to have extensive theoretical high-level knowledge including strategic and tactical use of BW on defense and offense, backed by some research on best BW agents to employ by geographical areas of Far East, [and] the use of BW in cold climates.
Page 85 - Stewart, secretary of state of the State of Montana, do hereby certify that the following is a true and correct copy of an act entitled " Senate joint memorial No. 1," enacted liy the seventeenth session of the Legislative Assembly of the State of Montana, and approved by Joseph M.
Page 152 - The value to the US of Japanese BW data is of such importance to national security as to far outweigh the value accruing from 'war crimes