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Scientific organizations also initiated studies within Vietnam during the war, finding widespread destruction of mangroves, economic losses of rubber and timber plantations, and harm to lakes and waterways.

After the trucks first arrived in January, there was a strong “burnt rubber” smell that eventually diminished but is still bothersome, she said.

At first, protesters were held back at roadblocks by tear gas and truncheons, then police started using water cannons and rubber bullets.

Many in the tour group wore rubber boots as they stood on moist concrete in a chamber faintly lit by filtered sunlight, peering into the dark tunnel.

Stan resists that notion, although as he looks at his young daughter wearing a goofy rubber dog mask, he admits, “Got a feeling I might do somebody else some harm, though.”