European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 1, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Dama list will provide source for wartime doctors Page 5 q Boston s Clemens strikes out 20 for baseball record Page 21 c 3 journalists ousted As Reagan arrives in bal Page 28 vol. 45, no. 14 thursday May 1, 1986 Muu Ahmed f0aces of cd a d 8693 an Tass says Only 2 died but rumours say 2,000 Moscow up the soviet Union appealed la the West for help tuesday in extinguishing a fire Al u giant atomic Power Plant had acknowledged mass evacuations and two deaths in i lie one unconfirmed report from the area said the death toll May surpass 2,000. A soviet Diplomat in the Accident Al the sprawling nuclear Nourr Complex so Miles North of the Ukraine capital of Kiev was the worst Ever in he world but he did Nal elaborate. Reagan administration sources said . Intelligence agencies concluded that a chemical explosion of some kind caused a reactor meltdown and fire. An Iid Jacnel building housing another reactor was said to be in severe danger. The roof was blown away. The Walls were crumpled and it was clearly still on fire tuesday one source said. The official Tass news Agency said two persons were killed during the Accident and the inhabitants of the nuclear Power station s settlement and three nearby populated localities have been Kenneth Adelynn head of the . Arms control and disarmament Agency dismissed As preposterous the claim of Only two deaths. He said he understood there was a wide lethal area a i the site und the soviets quickly evacuated a 19-mile radius around the Plant. A Kiev resident with close contacts to Hospital and Rescue officials said by Telephone that 2,000 people died More were hospitalized with radiation sickness and 10,000 to 15,000 were evacuated by bus and military aircraft from Pri pyal the site of the chernobyl Power station. Eighty people died immediately and some 2,00 1 people died on the Way to hospitals the Kiev resident said. "1 he whole october Hospital in Kiev is packed with people who suffer from radiation sickness. The people were nol buried in Ordinary cemeteries but in the Village of Pirogov where radioactive wastes Are usually buried she said. It is so horrible and sad. The whole City is discussing it. Everything possible is being done to help the people Adlman who has Access to . Satellite reconnaissance estimated thai 2,000 people lived in the Village built to serve the reactor facility and said they were at the principal Point of he said Iacre was an apparent explosion at the plan and a fire that could Burn for Days. Adelman also speculated thai there could be serious serious problems with the Prip Yat River feeds a Reservoir serving Kiev the soviet Union s third Largos cily with 2.3 million people. A Western Diplomat said it was impossible to confirm the report of 2.000 deaths but the figure is in the Ball Park of rumours coming front the on the one Ham in is a Rural area. Hul on inc other hand about 50,000 people live a Llic area " he said by Telephone. It is not several Western embassies said westerners plumed from Kiev to say As Many As 3.uoo people had died. Members of a finnish tourist group evacuated sunday from Kiev said their soviet guide told them of inc Acci Dent. Our guide told us two reactors exploded Rilva Elo Ranta said. The guide said 25,000 people were evacuated by bus.". The United slates West Germany and France offered monitoring the air Bruce picked of he Stile department of social and health services Check u rooftop air Sampler in olymphia Wash. The department s office of radiation Protection has Besun monitoring the sir daily checks used to he conducted twice weekly for radioactive fallout from an Accident m a Sonrel nuclear Plant. According to preliminary data the Accident took place in one of the areas of the fourth Power generating unit and resulted in the destruction of Pel of the structural Al a mints of the building housing the reactor its damage and a certain leak of radioactive substances Tass said. The radiation situation at the electric Power station and the adjacent territory has now been and the Nec Essary medical Aid is being Given to those the Solel ambassador to West Germany met tuesday with Interior minister Friedrich Zimmermann Nad assured him thai the Accident is under control and poses no danger to West Germany a government spokesman in Bonn said. High radiation Levels were reported in Poland Denmark Finland Norway Sweden lieu cum and parts of Germany experts said the Levels posed no immediate danger to Cui cab. Polish officials announced plans to give children special anti radiation drugs and to dump milk from grass fed cows because of possible contamination. The swedish radiation Institute also was checking milk for signs of con lamination. Earlier tuesday nuclear Energy officials in West Ger Many and Sweden said the soviets had asked them for advice on How to put out an atomic fire which experts say is considered More disastrous than u reactor Core melt Down the Assolin Letl press reported that . Intelligence sources in Washington said the chernobyl reactor Complex experienced a meltdown saturday was still billowing see nuclear on Page 2b Enterprise sails into med 3rd Carrier in area by Norman Black a military writer Washington the aircraft Carrier Enterprise sailed into the Mediterranean tuesday bringing to three the number of . Carriers operating in the Region. Meanwhile Pentagon sources said planes from the Carrier Coral sea continued Peri Odic flights toward the Libya coastline. The United Stales has been conducting such surveillance flights since american planes struck five targets in Libya two weeks ago the sources said. We re doing a Little flying for surveil Lance purposes and to lest their reaction said one source. Bui we re staying Well North Over inc the Enterprise passed through the Suez canal from its regular duty station in the Indian Ocean and steamed into the Eastern Mediterranean Early tuesday morning. Pentagon officials speaking on condition of anonymity said the Currier had been directed los Leam toward the Coral sea in the Central Mediterranean. The third Carrier in the Region the America remains in Naples Italy for a Liberty Call the officials said. They continued to insist Hal no orders had been issued to form a new Batik group or to prepare for another military strike against Libya. Rather they said the enter prise will relieve the Coral sea which is overdue for a return to Norfolk a. One official said the Coral sea would probably be released from patrol duties in the Mediterranean next week although no final decision on Liming has been made the Point to All this is our determination to maintain at least iwo carriers in the Mediterranean for the time another source said. The Enterprise was moved because we Don t want the America there by in self just in Case something attack lets from the America and Coral sea joined air Force fighter bombers based see Carrier on Page 28 Rhein main s Security proving Tough on Luggage gis Omi i ii Rhein-ma1n a Germany Dick who left his bags unattended at the military Airlift come terminal was detained by Security police and the bag of another enlisted Man was blown up when authorities spotted a wire hanging from in a base spokesman said tuesday. To both incidents were Patlaf furl cd enforcement of a base to Fly against leaving bags Unal Lakica following the bombing of a West Berlin discotheque april 5 and the is raid on Libya april is was not allowed to take his a out of Germany saturday All unattended despite Warner Miral staff an personnel identified the Man rough baggage tags and paged him with out Success said master ski. Dave Mema Hon of the Rhein main Public affairs office. They then contacted Security police who apprehended the Man. The Security police detained the individual and released hint to the list replacement in which in processes most army tuesday How Lier was Dalai cd. Police considered charging him a Mitby order but did nol because he new station Mcmahon said. Earlier last week a Soldier assigned 10 cod 3rd in 36lh inf in Kirch gowns left a bag directly under a warning sign in the terminal. The bag had what Jook cd to Ter Minal staff like a wire hanging out of it the bag was treated As a possible terrorist device and explosive ordnance disposal personnel were called. The ordnance Dispo Sal personnel took the bag to the end of a runway and exploded it. Wire was identified later As the Cord from a personal sic on Page 28
