European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 21, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the stars and stripes tuesday january 21. 1886 radiation fears in a Spanish Village new York times a Antonia Flores remembers tha Dasher Toro Lher saw lire tailing trom the was just Over 20 years ago Jan 17.1966.a 10 16 a.m., villagers Opal mares. Spain say with precision and Flores was 6 years old. Sha was playing in a held when her brother looked up and screamed hat pieces of lira were falling. Toe two i tightened children made it As fat As their backyard before stumbling among some cows. The pieces did nos hit any people or houses a Miracle the villagers say. Flares remembers How minutes later she played curiously with a broken Metal Cylinder that had hit he ground. Whal she did not know was that it was part of a Hydrogen bomb. It was one of your thai had fallen from a collision Miles above Between an american b-52 bomber and its refuelling plane. She and he rest of the nearly 1,000 residents of this Village on Spain s Southern Mediterranean coast also did not know that they were being exposed to radiation. Today worried Aboul the delayed of incl of radiation in creating cancer Many of fhe Village a fear thai the contamination of the i bodies May become apparent soon. It is a Lear heightened hey say by nearly 20 years of being kept in the dark by the Spanish authorities. Feeling pressure from a growing pol Lical clamor the nuclear Energy Board Only last month let the More than 500 villagers who had bean stud Ted sea Ihler medical reports for the first time. The Board Pic calmed that radiation danger was negligible. But Many villager distrust the findings alter the years of secrecy. Adding to their ear is the Board s admission that residual contamination remains in Palomares. And then there is Spanish Law. According to town officials Spanish and american liability legally ends after 20 years. Tha Board ust cells us to believe said floras who is now the Village s mayor. But we want to know exactly Trtat our health situation statement by the . Embassy also contribute to the villagers concern about compensation. " As Lar As we Are concerned the Case is already closed an embassy spokesman said Noling that the United Stales paid compensation in the first months after the Accident in the warm Winter Sun outside the bar Valero the Community Center Here Lorenzo Gonzalez a 77-year old Tomalo Larrar. Spoke in a growling voice wild his friends when the subject of the americans came up. The americans should still pay us for endangering our lives he said and Ihen our Palomares. A mile off the coastal Highway is a Cott Clion of 1ldy, while washed houses. The Village got running water Only last summer. Almost every Yard sports tethered goats and plastic Hothouse growing the Strong lasting local tomatoes about the Only crop that will survive. Tha Region is so hardscrabble in places that Lawrence of Arabia was filmed nearby. Three bombs fell on the Village and a fourth which took three months to ind fell into the sea. Their nuclear cores had not bean activated preventing explosions. But iwo of the bombs that hit land underwent chemical explosions on Impact. Tha spread a Gogh Shower of Psi Lonum that Francisco Mingot a physicist for mayor Antonia Floral with one of a i villager. With tha nuclear Energy Board said will fast in the soil bomb Grade Pluto Plum is considered tar More toxic than tha uranium common in most nuclear reactors. Thug Paf Marea has become what american and Spanish scientists say is a living Laboratory tha Only civilian population to be exposed to a plutonium Accident. A the Days alter the Accident american soldiers wearing Gas masks burned Lom toes slaughtered animals and dug up tons of contaminated topsoil that was sent in Drums to a site in South Carolina for burial. Villagers scrubbed their bodies and burned their clothes. After three months the americans turned monitoring responsibility Over of the spaniards. Although Legal liability for illnesses has been unclear the United slates Stilt provides consultants and about $200.000 a year in partial financing Tor the Spanish monitoring. One consultant Chesler r. Richmond a biomedical researcher Al Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee said that the financing was budgeted at least through next year. It s an he said. So far there has been no real cause Lor concern but this is a unique situation. There is always the possibility of re the nuclear Energy Board has shuttled nearly 600 villagers to Madrid Lor intensive tests Over the years. Only about 60 showed signs of contamination and Only one came close to exceeding International safely Levels Mingot said he said someone would have to eat millions of tomatoes for them to be dangerous. There is no risk a said. But some Tel Enlil question the Board s findings. Or Eduardo Rodriguez Farre a radio biologist with the stale run Board of Sclena Lluc research in Barcelona said in an interview that testing had been insufficient and that some recent blood samples suggested probably from dust. Mingot said new tests had been drawn up. Calling the past secrecy a mistake he said it was a result of initial american pressure and later Tea by the Franco dictatorship of causing alarm by Eugene Sheffer. 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