European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 12, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Gov. Edwin Edwards Freedom. See Page 5 retirement distortion hit Page 2 q tax Bill s effect would be mixed Page 4 d wears Seta ail time record at  21 vol. 45. No. 25 author inc  Puli tit n hit monday May 12, 19s6 Coll and Simc Tiv Foj 8693 a Nasa whistle blowers Washington a two rocket company whistle blowers who tried to Slop the Munch of the space shuttle challenger have told a presidential commission they have been punished Tor disclosing their efforts and the panel s chairman called their treatment shocking. The commission saturday released a were transcript of a closed hearing that shows there were objections 10 the design of the shuttle Booster rockets Back to 1971 10 years before the first flight and that the commission is concerned pressure to resume flying could repeat some of those problems. The Day Long hearing May 2 bund com missioners repeatedly taking to task the Nasa official responsible not Only Tor supervising the Booster rockets Bui Aba Tor repeatedly Clearing them to Fly despite growing evidence of problems with the rocket joint thai is thought to have destroyed challenger that official Lawrence b. Mulloy was see Nasa on Page 28 soviets say Kiev is Safe from fallout on saturday said new show Kiev is absolutely Safe from the chernobyl nuclear Plant s fallout and a so Viet official was quoted As saying the Krem Lin should have announced the Accident sooner. Valentin Falin news Agency  As saying  had died As a my Nuie Accident which would bring the official death toll to tour. The German news Magazine Der Spiegel quoted Falin As saying the two had been " Yho wre hospitalized in Accident. The  chernobyl Miles North of Kiev released Sud of radioactivity. Related stories Dally Magazine Page 28. In a four paragraph statement released saturday the soviet government said radiation Levels in Kiev and at a radius of 35 Miles from the reactor were absolutely Safe Kiev $ the country Sih with " 1 i  Rabut radiation have been Sling o re Moscow although no panic tits Kiev. The Slatem sure at 0.32 Millir Peniger Kiev and at 0.33 Milliros Entgens per t Miles from the Plant but did not say when the readings were taken. A  to one thousandth of a Roentgen the Standard mean re of ionizing radiation. Experts Cay exposure to so Roentgen or Gens per year can be fatal on the country s Western Border the radiation level is within the limits of the background or Normal level the statement said. Officials have said hey evacuated is Miles of the reactor.  in English by the official Tassne _ not specify radiation Levels at the see soviets on Page 28 j 00,000 romans March of protest nuke plants Rome a police said an estimated 100,000 people marched quietly through the streets of Rome saturday to protest the use of nuclear Energy and the Accident at. The soviet Union s chernobyl nuclear Power Plant. There were smaller demonstrations in Germany and Greece. The demonstrators in Rome marched for two hours their yellow clothing and banners turning the route from the main train station to the Piazza Navona into a sea of yellow the color ontarian environmentalists. One group Laid � Wreath at the soviet embassy carrying the inscription for the present and future victims of chernobyl the ukrainian site of the april 26 nuclear Accident that sent a Cloud of radioactivity Over Europe. Some marchers carried signs that said russian salad iodine 131 and Cobalt no thanks and contaminated people of the world unite others chanted we will die quietly we will die All of us in Athens Greece riot police battled to disperse scores of self proclaimed anarchists protesting the chernobyl disaster and the demonstrators hurled rocks bricks and bottles of flaming gasoline Al the officers authorities said one policeman and a bystander were injured in the fighting that began Friday night three Bank in the City Center were slightly damaged by fire. Eleven arrests were reported. More than 5,000 demonstrators paraded through downtown Munich saturday carry ing red flags and banners that called for the closing of Germany s nuclear Power plants. Aid for Poland a worker at new York s John f. Kennedy donated Fay tic new Canaan  Airport prepares packages of milk and America foundation to help relieve vitamins part of hundreds of thousands of polish victims of the chernobyl nuclear pounds of food Medicine and supplies Power Plant Jalloul Spanish police a Vertu Guese told police that they incl Dunder the orders of the lebanese Leader of the group and that they were expecting to be paid $70,000 by libyan officials