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Last December, I was invited to the community of resettled toxic waste victims in Clark.  The visit began in a tiny therapy room built from donations of the Filipino-American students of our host, friend, and fellow Waldorf parent, Susan Quimpo. Four thin mattresses lay on the bare cement floor. On each of them was a child with cerebral palsy.

[DatePublished] => 2006-01-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133742 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1180515 [AuthorName] => BREATHING SPACE By Panjee Tapales Lopez [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 88129 [Title] => Another Clark toxic waste 'victim' dies; more kids ill [Summary] =>

MABALACAT, Pampanga - The remaining skepticism on whether toxic wastes at Clark Field are responsible for unusual illnesses among local folk seems to be vanishing as another 10-year-old girl died of leukemia here recently.

The death of Kathleen Lavaria in Barangay Dolores here last May 10 has heightened fears among 20,000 lahar-displaced families who had stayed at an evacuation center at the former US Clark Air Force Base here after the 1991 eruption of Mt. [DatePublished] => 2000-05-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804849 [AuthorName] => Ding Cervantes [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )

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