European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 5, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes monday May 5, 1986 returning tourists tested for radiation by . Kominicki and Judy Sara Oiin Slaff writers Rhein main a Germany . Military health and chemical personnel mobilized saturday and sunday to examine military family members returning from soviet Union Tours for possible contamination from the recent russian nuclear Plant Accident. A group including 27 ninth graders from Kam slain Junior High school and 10 adults who returned from mos cow and Leningrad saturday night went through tests at the army Hospital at lands Lull and the air Force clinic at rams Cin a Hospital and Community spokesmen said. Another group of about so people on a tour arranged by the Patch officers wives club in Stuttgart through a German four Agency was tested sunday after it arrived it the Frankfurt International Airport said air Force la. Col. Ray Crockett a spokesman for the european come. That group had flown into Kiev april 27 a Day or two after the nuclear Accident is thought to have occurred but then shortly went on to Moscow and Leningrad i think we owe them the satisfy cation that we have looked for everything. We just wanted to make sure they re of or. Col John Parker 7th medical come surgical consultant said sunday. Travellers and aircraft coming into Germany from the soviet Union Are being checked by German authorities for contamination a Frankfurt Airport official said. Were checking for potential Public health hazards the american tests were More personal. Our goal is to assess the health risk to the individual. It s More personal Burgos said. The Only Way to find out if they re contaminated is to  the Stuttgart group which included some men and children was met at the Frankfurt Airport by military officials and taken by bus to the army s 21st replacement in located on Rhein main a where the initial testing was done. Or. Col George Loans in commander of the bad Cannstatt Hospital which is near Patch Barracks and a military representative spoke to them on the bus. The military representative who would not give a reporter his name told them about the nuclear Accident and explained Why they were diverted to Rhein main. The women were scanned at the Airport and All showed negligible or negative he said. Although the group had passed through Kiev some of the travellers seemed unaware of it. Three women told the stars and stripes that they did t know what All the com motion was about. Another said she had heard about the Accident but that the soviets simply acted normally. We met another american tour group that had been in Kiev when it happened and they did t know anything about it at All she said. About 100 army and air Force personnel helped in the testing sunday. At the 21st replacement in in processing building the travellers received More detailed briefings including one from maj. Gen. Or Frank f. Ledford jr., commander of the 7th medical come. There were 10 stations set up with chemical specialists in Iri v corps 3rd army div and 8th inf div and radial meters. The instruments similar to Geiger counters were used to detect the surface presence of contaminants emitting Gamma and Beta radiation on the travellers or their Luggage. If anyone was found contaminated there were showers and fresh clothing available before retesting. Then bad Cannstatt personnel performed blood and other tests. The travellers were asked to collect urine Sam Ples Over a 24-hour period. After meeting with their families in a reception area the travellers were driven to the army Hospital at Frank Furt or the air Force Hospital at Wiesbaden for thyroid tests to determine if they had radioactive iodine contamination. Packets of Laboratory slips and initial medical information were made up for each traveler to Speed the process said col. Alan Flory assistant chief of staff for operations Al 7th medical come. There were also social workers psychology specialists and chaplains on hand in Case travellers or family members needed someone else to talk to about their concerns. There la probably be some concern Over what s going on. It s not routine Flory said. Women on the tour seemed High spirited after their 216 hour flight from the soviet Union. Asked How she Felt about facing the Rhein main tests one woman joked i Don t know what All the fuss is about. We re not  when they were told of the Accident some groaned others looked puzzled. Of really one said. Well whatever our husbands have planned for us is All right with  staff writer Dick Hodgson Conerl Fulcd id this report 49,000 evacuated from nukes be soviet official says Hamburg a a High ranking soviet official said sunday thai 49.000 peo ple were evacuated from areas around the chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster and nearby farming had been halted and livestock slaughtered because of radiation. Moscow communist party chief Boris Yeltsin a close associate of soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev acknowledged that radiation emissions Al the site were Iso Roant guns per hour. Scientists say that is dangerously High. Yeltsin spoke to the associated press in in interview in this Northern German port City where he was heading the soviet delegation at a conference of the Small West German communist party. He spoke in russian and his remarks were translated into English by the a. The residents of about four housing areas in a zone roughly 18 Miles in Diame Ter around the chernobyl nuclear reactor were evacuated. That was 49,000 people Yeltsin said. He said that 20 to 25 people still arc in serious condition and that another 10 to is May be to added to that list. According to Yeltsin is4 people remain hospitalized and two people were killed. High ranking . Government officials have said intelligence reports indicate that the number of casualties was substantially higher in the Accident �0 Miles North of Kiev in the Ukraine. Yeltsin who is also a candidate member of the soviet Union s ruling politburo said the danger area originally was described As being 18 Miles in diameter around the Plant but has shrunk to 12 Miles. The livestock that were there have been slaughtered. Also naturally no farm work is going on there he said. He also strongly indicated that milk and water supplies had been contaminated in the danger area but he said that outside the zone such products were being consumed normally. In other areas of the Ukraine farm work is still going Forward. Cows arc being grazed drinking water is being consumed As Well As milk vegetables and other pro Duce without restrictions and without limits he said. The soviet Union has come under Sharp International criticism for alleged delays in making Public the extent of the reactor troubles and for radioactive Clouds blown by prevailing winds throughout Europe. Yeltsin insisted that there had been no nuclear explosion at chernobyl. As for the causes there arc differing versions. Humans cannot enter the Accident zone. Therefore we can t specify the causes of the Accident at this time Yeltsin said during the interview. But he added one thing certainly is hard to believe and that is that it had any thing to do with the Quality of the equip  during sunday s interview Yeltsin also repeated assertions that the soviets arc Tak ing Steps to Cut Down radiation emissions from the chernobyl reactor. Steps arc being taken to lower that even further. Sacks loaded with Sand Boron and Lead arc now being dropped from helicopters he said. The goal of this measure is to give a kind of protective shield Over the Accident  the three other reactors at the Cherno Byl site have been turned off As a precaution but Yeltsin said soviet officials Hope to put them Back on line As soon As  Waldheim facing Runoff election Vienna Austria up conserva Tive presidential candidate Kurt Waldheim narrowly missed gaining a majority of the votes in sunday s presidential election forc ing a Runoff election in five weeks. The final unofficial count of votes showed Waldheim with 49.64 percent of the Vole followed by 43.66 percent for Kurt stay scr the candidate of the governing socialist party a total of More than so percent of those voting was needed to avoid a Runoff election Between the two major candidates june 8. The final returns in the four candidate race gave environmental activist Freda Cissner Blau  percent and right Wing nationalist Otto Scrinzi 1,2 percent. A total of s.4 million austrians were Eligi ble to vote and about 89 percent of them did. The turnout was lower than in past presiden tial elections partly because voting is no longer compulsory in five of Austria s nine provinces. The Campaign the most divisive since the founding of the second Republic after world War ii has entered on revelations that Waldheim had hidden his wartime activities As a lieutenant in the German army. Waldheim was stationed in the Balkans at a Lime when brutal reprisals were launched by the germans against yugoslav partisans and tens of thousands of greek jews were shipped to polish death Camps. Waldheim has denied he knew of the deportation of jews but he has said he was aware of the atrocities against partisans. His chief accuser has been the new York based world jewish Congress. The controversy grew so intense that outgoing president Rudolf Kirch Schlauger agreed last month to look at documents on Wald Heim provided by the wac and the . War crimes commission. 1 temperatures 1T May j h l Albany 47 31 Fouque Raue 00 is Anchorage 49 31 Atlanta 75 47 Atlantic Colv 59 41 Bat Leo e 59 35 Billing 14 so by Ming Nam 73 43 bite 72 45 Boilon to 36 Bullaro 4b 35 Burlington 42 31 Charleston . 69 56 Cna lesion . M 29 Chicago 60 46 Cincinnati 61 13 Cleveland 50 3? 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Sun lie tuesday 5-5 Outlook Lor tuesday Lair skies Wilh slightly warmer temperatures. Temperatures recorded sunday Islamabad Pakistan a afghan president Babrak Karmal resigned sunday As head of the country s ruling communist party because of poor health and was replaced by the former head of the state secret police the government said. The announcement was made on radio Kabul the afghan government radio in a broadcast monitored in Islamabad. Karmal was installed by soviet troops in december 1979 when they entered Afghanistan and deposed Hafizullah Amin. Soviet troops have remained in Afghanistan and Are supporting the afghan government fight against moslem insurgents. The 57-year-old Leader had t been seen in about a month and missed his country s National Day celebrations last weekend. Radio Kabul said Karmal had resigned As Secretary general of the people s demo cratic Par j of Afghanistan. But Karmal remained chairman of the revolutionary Council and a member of the ruling seven Man politburo. The new party Leader and therefore the effective head of the government was named by radio Kabul As Najibullah who until recently was head of the khad secret police Wilh Overall responsibility for stat Security. Moscow radio monitored in London also reported Karmal s resignation. 4am 4pm 52 72 Copenhagen f 48 63 fran Lurl. P 59 7 London r h 73 Madrid cd 57 79 Munich m 52 h Paris i 50 63 Rome m Lam 4pm 46 64 57 70 48 s4 38 51 48 70 45 61 55 61 Adana. P Amsterdam m at ten i Aviano m Berlin t Bremerhaven m 5 m Brussels m " " provided by Del. 13. 7lh weather so Tram trip reach. Other worldwide temperature to High Low Cairo. J Dublin f Helsinki i Jerusalem cd Lisbon it 8 57 Montreal 52 45 Moscow f Oslo. I Toronto. 68 48 57 48 High Low so m 61 46 6 48 Vancouver supplied by the associated Pratt of fair cd Cloudy a rain a partly Cloudy