European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 9, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday september 9, 1978 scientists say nuke report not valid Washington a a group of scientists said thursday that a federally financed report that claims people run a far greater risk of being killed by lightning than by a nuclear Power Plant Accident is unreliable. The Power plants May be safer or More dangerous than the report indicates but the study used for four years As proof that nuclear Power plants Are Safe is not sound the scientists said. The study called the Rasmussen re Davis indicted in alleged murder plot fort Worth Texas up Busi Nessman t. Cullen Davis one of the richest men in Texas has been indicted on charges of trying to arrange the murder of the judge in his four year old divorce Case. A Tarrant county grand jury after hearing testimony from Fri informant David Mccrory and seeing and hearing tapes of a conversation Between Davis and the informant issued two indictments thurs first indictment is a multiple count alleging solicitation of capital murder conspiracy to commit capital murder and attempt to commit capital murder chief prosecutor Tolly Wilson said. The other indictment is for Possession of a the Silencer charge carries a maximum 20-year sentence and Davis could face terms of 99 years on each of the other accusations. Mistress testifies Karen master with whom Davis was Liv ing at the time of his arrest was one of the last witnesses to testify before the grand jury thursday. Under Texas speedy trial Law Davis must be tried before oct. 20. He has been held without Bond since his arrest aug. 20. During Davis Bond hearing Mccrory said Davis had a list of 14 other people he wanted killed including witnesses who testified against him at his murder trial. Davis was acquitted last year in Amarillo on charges of killing his stepdaughter in August 1976 in a shooting spree at Davis $6 million fort Worth mansion. He still faces charges stemming from the death of his estranged wife s Lover Stan Farr. Tremor shakes Italy Region Trieste Italy a a mild Earth tremor Shook the Friuli Region of North Eastern Italy the 435th since a killer Earth quake rocked the area in May 1976. There were no reports of injuries or damage from the tremor registering 3.1 on the Richter scale at the Trieste Observatory. The tremor was the first in the area since june 13. Port was commissioned by the nuclear regulatory commission and published in 1974. The review committee attacking the re port s accuracy is made up of scientists from both inside and outside the govern Lewis of the University of Cali fornia at Santa Barbara chairman of the risk assessment review group that critiqued the report presented its findings thursday to the arc. The Rasmussen report calculated the Chance of one person being killed per year by a nuclear Power Plant Accident was Only about one in 5 billion far less probable than being killed by lightning for exam ple which was calculated at the time to be at a rate of one in 2 million. Lewis told the arc that the review group decided the Rasmussen report got unreliable results due to the utilization of inadequate data and questionable procedures. Other members of the review group were Frank von Hippel of Princeton University Walter Lowenstein of the electric Power research Institute Fredrik Zacharia sen of California Institute of technology Robert j. Budnitz of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory who was recently hired by the arc As a staff researcher William d. Rowe of the . Environmental Protection Agency and Herbert . Kouts of Brookhaven National Laboratory. Trading quips actor Kevin Mccarthy Lef Tsatur Star of the movie heaven can wait for the congressional seat once held by Day night live to Star Gilda Radner get together in new York during a new York City mayor de Koch and and Buck Henry screenwriter and co party for Al Lowenstein who is running former mayor John Lindsay. Up ballistics testimony in Juk slaying expert supports one Bullet theory Washington up an army ballistics expert Friday told a House commit tee in vivid detail of tests involving Gelatin filled skulls and live animals used by re searchers investigating the gunshots that killed John f. Kennedy. Ballistics expert Larry Sturdivan told the House assassinations committee the evidence supported the Warren commis Sion s finding that one Bullet probably passed through the president s body and continued on to grievously wound Texas gov. John Connally. The assassinations panel concentrated in its third Day of hearings on the nov. 22, 1963, killing in Dallas on the weapons involved and particularly on the key ques Tion whether a single Bullet could have hit both Kennedy and Connally and emerge Al most unmarked. If they were struck by separate bullets the theory of More than one gunman would be Given major support. Sturdivan showed films of ballistic experiments he performed for the Warren commission including shooting Low and High velocity bullets through blocks of gel Atin. Harm to non smokers discounted Washington a despite the views of a Small group of vocal non smokers there is no proof cigarette smoke in the air harms people exposed to it medical witnesses have told a subcommittee headed by a congressman from a tobacco producing state. Thursday s testimony came during a one Day hearing before rep. Walter b. Jones House tobacco subcommittee. Jones d-n.c., said he is concerned Over growing efforts to ban smoking in Public civil aeronautics Board wrestling with similar issues decided thursday to postpone action on a proposed Rule to ban Cigar and pipe smoking on commercial airliners. The Board reduced to three members by retirements said it wanted to defer a vote until it has a full complement of five members. That could be a month or More. There is a Small group of vocal non smokers who. Have a special interest in trying to convince people that environmental tobacco smoke is harmful to their health or. Edwin r. Fisher a pathology professor at the University of Pittsburgh told Jones subcommittee. There is a Lack of scientific information incriminating atmospheric tobacco smoke As a health Hazard he study published in the july Issue of the new England journal of Medicine concluded that breathing air in a roomful of cigarette smokers can be dangerous of people with angina Rectoris a Chest pain associated with heart disease. But Fisher said people increasingly Are suffering from smoke phobia and cancer phobia an intense fear of cigarettes and cancer. He said their apprehension is being fed by some scare books and newspaper headlines. Or. Suzanne b. Knoebel a research professor at the Indiana University school of Medicine in Indianapolis and or. Kenneth m. Moser director of the pulmonary division of the University of California at the san Diego school of Medicine also discounted any link Between cigarette smoke in the air and disease in non smokers. He told the committee no Bullet goes straight when it enters a solid mass which could account for the missile s change of trajectory in hitting both Kennedy and Connally. Some of the bullets deviated within the Gelatin by As much As 90 degrees. Others disintegrated. Other films showed bullets being fired at Gelatin filled human skulls the rear of which was covered with Goat skin to Simu late human tissue and hair. The bullets fired from Lee Harvey Oswald s own 6.5mm Mann Licher Carcano Rifle and a similar firearm created the same explosive effect As the shot that killed the president. Large fragments of Skull exploded up wards and forwards. In the films the skulls which were unattached to any vertebrae moved Forward. A film of Kennedy s shooting shows his head jerking backward which some conspiracy theorists believe indicates the president was also shot from in front. However Sturdivan cited 30-year-old army films some of them involving the shooting of live goats indicating the rear Ward movement of Kennedy s head could also Well have been caused by neuromuscular the Bullet he said could have caused mechanical motivation of a number of nerves and Muscles which would cause movement of the More powerful Muscles such As those in the Back. He noted live animals no longer were used in such tests
