1.   He plays Jim Tuite, a Vietnam veteran and aide to senator Riegle, who pieces together the evidence about gulf war syndrome.

2.   Stephen C. Joseph, the Pentagon doctor overseeing the investigation of gulf war syndrome, is under attack on a political battlefield.

3.   Some researchers have suggested that the drugs may have led to the health problems that came to be known collectively as gulf war syndrome.

4.   The department is financing several investigations into gulf war syndrome, including one into the effects of drugs and chemicals to which troops were exposed during the war.

5.   The findings would tend to support larger studies that have found no evidence to support the concept of gulf war syndrome.

6.   The symptoms reported by those worried about gulf war syndrome include fatigue, muscle pain, hair loss, breathing trouble and memory loss.

7.   Their symptoms, including fatigue, muscle and joint pain, memory loss and severe headaches, often are referred to as gulf war syndrome.

8.   Their symptoms, including chronic fatigue, digestive ailments and joint pain, are considered typical of the so-called gulf war syndrome reported by thousands of U.S. soldiers.

9.   Unfortunately, the Vietnam syndrome has been replaced among politicians with the gulf war syndrome.

10.   But others believe that all strata of society were breaking out of a war syndrome.