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... An additional database was planned to contain locations and dates of "residence" of US military units stationed in Vietnam. Consolidation, Quality Control, and Standarcl~zation of Databases Before the initiation of the contract, a set of individual geographic locations of military units assigned to Vietnam were collected by Columbia University investigators Jeanne Mager Stellman and Steven D
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