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Physician forms team for nuclear emergencies Doctor who treated Chernobyl victims will name experts to assist in event of blast
United Press International
NEW ORLEANS - The California physician who treated victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster has established a team of five experts that would be ready to offer immediate assistance at the next radioactive blast.
"They would be the Red Adairs of nuclear energy," said Robert Gale, director of the Bone Marrow Transplant Center at the University of California at Los Angeles. Adair is an expert at fighting oil well fires.
"There are five people in the world who have had actual battlefield
experience, who know the considerations under fire, which are rather different from the theoretical concepts." Gale said.
Gale, who recently showed rare slides of the Chernobyl aftermath and its victims to the annual convention of the American College of Physicians, said he would identify the members of his team on the April 26 anniversary of the Chernobyl explosion and fire.
The strike force will include at least one U.S., Soviet, French and Japanese physician. All are veterans of the reactor explosions, he said.
Gale said the lessons documented by the Chernobyl team would better arm his international emergency response group to anticipate the unique problems following a nuclear blast.
The chances of another such accident within the next decade are higher than 25 percent, he said.
Gale was able to travel to the Soviet Union last year through a provision in an international treaty that allows scientists to assist other countries beset by a nuclear reactor fire.
"Since there are so few people in the world who have actually had
hands-on experience with nuclear accidents, it is important to make them available to any country that might have an accident." he said.
An operations hub at the Armand Hammer Center for Advanced Studies of Nuclear Energy and Health, which Gale heads in Los Angeles, would know the whereabouts of each physician and an alternate.
"A plane would be ready to fly those people to the site of any nuclear reactor accident to give advice to the people managing the accident." Gale said.
"Most countries in the world don't have experience and the medical
resources to respond to reactor accidents, in Pakistan o Iran or wherever you like. It obviously would be irresponsible not to take advantage of that experience when and if we have to deal with another reactor accident, which is not all that unlikely."
The UCLA professor stressed that his emergency team was independent of any government affiliation.
"We're strictly a team of scientists acting as individuals," he said.
Ethics questioned in business contract
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The State Department awarded a non-competitive contract in 1985 to a firm involved in the Iran-contra affair, although an official of the awarding office was the brother of a key company employee.
A congressman and a federal ethics official are questioning the propriety of the contract, which was awarded after the department official's sister made the main sales pitch on the company's behalf.
The brother, however, said his actions were approved by State Department legal officers. The State Department legal office would not comment on the contract. The department's inspector general is investigating the contract.
The $276,186 contract was awarded to International Business Communications Inc. to create public support administration policies in Latin America.
At the time of the contract's effective date, Oct. 1, 1985, Air Force LTl Col. Daniel W. "Jake" Jacobowitz was assigned to the State Department office that hired IBC, the Office of Public Diplomacy for Latin America and the Caribbean.
His sister, Frances Jacobwitz,
was listed on an IBC document
obtained by The Associated Press as
administrator for the contract. The
document said she owl devote 80
percent of her time to the contract,
which would pay $40,000 of her $50,000
salary.
Standards of conduct for federal employees prohibit actual conflicts of interest as well as actions that create the appearance of wrongdoing.
"It could be an appearance problem," Donald Campbell, deputy director of the Office of Government Ethics, said when the circumstances were described to him.
Frances Jacobowitz did not return repeated phone calls to IBC.
A Pentagon official, speaking only on condition he not be named, said on behalf of Col. Jacobowitz that the Air Force officer was an administrative specialist who had no decision-making power over the contract or IBC's hiring practices.
Reagan hasn't received reports of POWs, 2 representatives sav
United Press International
WASHINGTON - Pentagon and National Security Council officials have for years failed to forward important information to President Reagan indicating that U.S. citizens are being held captive in Southeast Asia, two Republican congressmen charged yesterday.
Rep. John Rowland, R-Conn,
and Rep. Bob Smith, R.N.H.
expressed frustration that the
practice was continuing even
though Smith had advised Reagan
last year that he was not receiving
important evidence on possible
U.S. prisoners of war.
"The Defense Intelligence Agency just automatically tries to refute refugee reports," said Rowland, who has reviewed classified reports of live U.S. citizens and received numerous DIA briefings on the subject.
"It's part of a pattern of poor management at the White House." Smith said in a separate interview. "NSC officials have felt the president didn't need to know important details."
The NSC monitors DIA analyses of refugee reports and advises the president on the findings.
Pentagon spokesman Keith Schneider acknowledged past problems with DIA analysis of POW reports but said that increased staffing and computer capability were producing "a more comprehensive evaluation of reports."
But he said, "Any suggestion that evidence is being withheld from the president is totally withholding and categorically untrue."
An NSC spokesman did not respond to several requests for comment.
Smith, Rowland and some other Republican congressmen say that credible refugee reports of U.S. POWs suggest that at least a few dozen U.S. citizens are being held captive in Vietnam and Laos.
The administration's position is that, though it has no proof that any U.S. POWs are alive, it investigates fully every report received. The DIA has not been able to
A Pentagon task force, headed by former DIA director Eugene Tighe, found in October that administration officials were not deliberately covering up evidence of U.S. POWs but were doing a poor job of analyzing such evidence and reporting it to superiors.
resolve 153 of the 938 first-hand reports received since 1975 and is continuing to investigate them, Schneider said.
Smith and former Republican congressman William Hendon, who lost his North Carolina seat in the fall, said they advised Reagan an Oval Office meeting in January 1866 that NSC and DIA officials not presenting him with complete information about U.S. POWs.
Hendon said he resigned a previous post as a POW consultant to the Pentagon in 1983 after national security adviser Robert McFarlane refused to act on what Hendon considered a persuasive report from a North Vietnamese refugee.
Rep. Kemp to kick off campaign
WASHINGTON — Rep. Jack Kemp of New York will cap more than a year of planning today and formally announce his bid for the Republican presidential nomination.
United Press International
The campaign by the 51-year-old conservative lawmaker is a seemingly uphill struggle, but Kemp hopes to beat the odds by broadening the appeal to traditionally Democratic voters such as minorities and the working class.
However, even though the nine-term House member and former professional football quarterback has been mentioned frequently as a candidate, he has done poorly in the polls, usually running well behind Vice President George Bush and Senate Minority Leader Robert Dole.
Even if he captures the nomination, history shows an even tougher task in the general election. Not since James Garfield in 1880 has a House member gone directly to the White House.
But Kemp is convinced that he can win.
He calls himself a progressive conservative, pointing to legislation he has sponsored with minority law. He is also housing and urban enterprise zones.
"For 16 or 17 years now I've been fighting for a view of America and the cause of Western defense that I think is important for the post-Reagan era, particularly in my party." Kemp said last week.
Yet, many of Kemp's most cherished ideas are ones identified most with the conservative movement.
For example, he has long opposed abortion and said last week that he was willing to make his candidacy a referendum on early deployment of President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative missile defense plan which is a cause that has split Republicans.
Iranian women attain new rights
United Press International
A sense of realism slowly is replacing the fervor of the religious revolutions that toppled the Shah of Iran in 1793, might be the major beneficiaries.
TEHERAN, Iran — After eight years of repression enforced by Islamic "morality squads," women in Iran are defiantly drifting back into downtown bars and wearing makeup outdoors.
The fundamentalist ayatollahs who seized power from the Western-leaning shah required women 5 years old and up, including foreigners and
When he came to power, spiritual leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini reinstated the Islamic dress code,
members of the minority Christian and Jewish faiths, to wear a veil in public. They banned the use of makeup and forbade women to visit bars.
The shah had declared war on Islam in the belief that Iran would only make progress if it abandoned its eastern ways and followed the technologically advanced West.
He banned veils, ignoring religious teachings that regard a woman's hair as a dangerous, erotic distraction.
and established "morality squads" who flogged women they considered improperly dressed and disfigured their faces if they were makeup.
But the harsh methods have been relaxed in recent months.
Iran's leaders were apparently influenced by outcries, against savage attacks by squad members, such as the squad members who spotted a newly-wed couple holding hands in a park and beat the husband to death
Khomeini later ordered President Ali Khame尼基 to make a public appeal asking the morality squads to slow down their enforcement drive.
7:00 p.m. April 8-11
10:00 a.m. April 12
Kansas Union, Alderson Room
Marangatna Christian Church
B Round Town Mall
2859 Four Wheel Drive
BOB DUVALL
Bob Duvall, who has a prophetic travelling ministry, will be hosted by Maranatha Christian Ministries, April 8th thru 12th. Bob and his wife Linda travel extensively throughout the United States teaching how to practically apply your faith, preaching on the issues of the day on the college campuses, and encouraging the body of Christ.
1) the rights we will be speaking on are:
1) Sex, love, dating and other misunderstood words.
2) AIDS: America in Dire Straits.
3) The Androgenous Male of America.
4) Wilchcraft: American Style.
5) is there a real "Boogie Man?"
Delta Delta Delta
Sigma Phi Epsilon
SUPERTEAMS April 6-11
April 6-7
Tennis,
Lawrence High School
April 8-9
Volleyball,
Robinson Gymnasium
April 10 Weight Lifting, The Wheel
April 11
Weight Lifting, The Wheel Track and Field, Lawrence High School
Superteams, a philanthropy to benefit the Rehabilitation Center and the Children's Cancer Research Center of the KU Medical Center
MONDAY MANIA