Bodies sent to US claim investigated

Canberra - Australia opened an investigation yesterday into reports that the bodies of Australian babies were sent to the US …

Canberra - Australia opened an investigation yesterday into reports that the bodies of Australian babies were sent to the US for use in nuclear energy experiments in the 1950s and 1960s.

The Health Minister, Mr Michael Wooldridge, said he was not aware of an alleged operation in which the babies' bodies were shipped overseas for research purposes without their parents' permission.

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