European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 13, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 Portland Ore a radioactivity from he soviet nuclear Accident was reported in  for the first time sunday by Oregon officials. They said the con lamination was not a cause for concern. The report came As weekend samples of air and Rainwa Ter in the Pacific Norlham Cal showed Levels of radioactivity thai were higher than Normal but below a level considered dangerous. The environmental pre Lection Agency has recorded sporadic Levels of radiation from the chernobyl disaster in Ine past week in much of the country a Scop the South Casl the Epa said sunday. The discovery of traces of iodine-13 and cerium 37 in milk taken is indy from dairies in Northwest Oregon Means the  is passing through the food Chain said or. Lester Wright of the stale health Divi Sion. The samples showed i in Picoc urics. Of iodine-131 and tuesday May 13, 19b6. Shows up in 43 poo turks of ccsium-137pcr liter of milk he said. Health officials would be concerned if the iodine tji level reached 15,000 Pic curies and the cerium 37 level Rose to 24,000 Pico cunts per liter. There is no reason to believe these Levels will be reached he said. Radiation in Rainwater samples taken in Portland on Friday hit the highest Levels detected in the United Stales since a nuclear reactor at chernobyl in inc soviet us Irvinc exploded and caught fire two weeks ago. In washing Lon stale an air Sample taken saturday at Olympia showed .1 Pic curbs per cubic meter an increase from .113 Friday and .07 thursday. A Sample of Rizin Waitr taken in Seattle showed 2,400 Piecuc Pirics of radiation per cubic liter from iodine ill which compares with 540 Pic curies Friday said Jim a Mccland press Secretary to Washington gov Booth  Kneeland said saturday it s substantially below where they would Start advising precautionary action a bin on drinking Rainwater would be imposed if the level reached 10,000 Pic curies per cubic liter he said and Motif coring will continue this week. Rainfall samples taken in Portland on Friday morning showed 5,250 pie eurotes of iodine-131 per tiler but by Friday afternoon samples showed 392 Pic curies per liter Levels of iodine-131 in Rainwater in 10 .  i a ranged my 11 Pic curies to 500 Pic curies per liter Theep Asaid. Iodine-131 is considered particularly dangerous because it concentrates in lie thyroid an Organ sensitive to Radia Tion damage. Health officials in Oregon on sunday continued to advise residents to avoid drinking Rainwater. Backfire from Page is sending three tractors and plows to the Sandhill Region to replace their lighter equipment which they la take  in addition Georgia was sending a trac Tor plow and in equipment operator offi Cial said. . Highway 17 remained closed 25 Miles in Pender county As was North car Olina route 210, she said. About 5,000 people were asked to leave their Homes and while few used evacuation shelters when we Call for a voluntary evacuation people leave she said. Becky Strickland was one of those fleeing their Homes on the East Side of . 17 sunday. She look her two children iwo dogs and a biro1 to her Mother s House. "1 mean my House is full of smoke she said. My eyes were  Strickland said she was t concerned about her House burning because her. Hus band a firefighter burned the perimeter around the building. But she said they might lose 33 acres of Woods in front of the House. Joyce Bonitz who watched her husband Al wet the shingles atop their country store saturday said their car was packed with soviets from Page 1 after the Accident. We have come to the conclusion today that the main the chief difficulty has been eliminated. We can work Mare calmly today the commission chief Ivan Lilaiev said in a television interview we Are firmly convinced that he Dan Ger is past. A very important task is to bring on line the other three reactors said Sil Icv who is also Deputy chairman of the country s Council of ministers. Radioactivity readings on the country s Western Borders were Normal a statement issued by the Council of ministers said sunday. We must not Only restore he atomic Power Plant but also revive he surrounding land and return ii to life scientist Valery Lega Sov told television news. Other scientists interviewed also stressed the end of the danger coming from Cherno Byl and the desire id gel the other three reactors  current situation at the chernobyl atomic Power Plant does Nal represent any major threat said Eugene Vacti Klimov vice president of the .s.k, Academy of sciences. Theoretically up until today the possibility of a catastrophe really did exist there was a Large Quantity of fuel and re actor Graphite in a White hot stage Velik Hov said. This is no longer so. Today is a turning poinl.". After a certain time which will be dictated by safely norms the Plant will again come on line and give Power he said As decontamination work continued so Viet officials and Media warned of psycho logical problems among the 84,000 people evacuated from the 19-mile danger zone at chernobyl who Are now Settle in Camps near the ukrainian capital of Kiev. 60 Miles South of the town of chernobyl. Kiev itself a City of 2.4 million people is in no danger officials say. According to Gelger counter readings on sunday a Resi Dent of Kiev would have to be exposed to the present level of radiation every Day for five years before any ill effects became Evi Dent. One scientist predicted radiation Levels in Kiev would return to Normal by May 19, but it was doubtful if those evacuated would be allowed to return to the More heavily contaminated areas any time soon. Psychologically Many of those who came Here were not prepared to Settle Down. Potatoes Are Given for planting. It is not Loo late to Plant them but not everybody is hurrying to Plant hero a newspaper re port in Kiev said. Syria from Page 1_ Damascus government refused to waive diplomatic immunity. Britain said it wanted to question them regarding allegations about syrian involvement in certain terrorist activities in this  or. Louif Allah Haydar Syria s Ambas Sador to Britain told the associated press the Issue was the april 17 attempt to smug Gle a bomb aboard a Tel Aviv bound Al Al Airliner at London s Heathrow Airport. Trie syrian statement released sunday said the syrian embassy had agreed that its three diplomats be questioned by British interrogators inside the syrian embassy out of an emphatic conviction that there is no connection whatsoever with he accusations levelled against  but Scotland Yard said information obtained from questioning he envoys would not stand up in court unless diplomatic immunity was waived. President Hafez Assad s government Moscow s closest Middle East ally has de Nied involvement in any terrorist activity. Government controlled Media say West Ern charges that Damascus i linked 10 terrorism have been fabricated to justify a military blow against Syria similar to the . Air attack on Libya that was staged april 15 in retaliation Tor Libya s alleged involvement in International terrorism. The syrian statement said British Mili tary attache col David Maidan Tuler ton first Secretary David Taylor and vice Consul Andrew Balfour who is also third Secretary had to wind up their affairs and leave within one we a 31-year-old palestinian Nezar Hindawi is awaiting trial on charges of planting the bomb in his Irish Girlfriend s Luggage without her knowledge and sending her aboard the israeli plane. Police said the plane would have blown up with 400 people aboard. The London broadcasting corp. Radio said saturday that Britain suspected syrian diplomats of supplying the bomb components and that Hindawi contacted a syrian envoy after dropping off Hii Girlfriend a the Airport Haydar also said Britain had no right to demand Dipio manc immunity be waived for the three syrian envoys British radio reports said it was unlikely the expelled syrian envoys would be allowed to ate up assignments in any other West euro Pean capitals. Demonstrators March on Torrejon a Madrid. Spain a thousands of people marched to Torrejon a outside Madrid on sunday 10 demand hat the four . Bases in Spain be dismantled. Organizers from Madrid s anti nato association estimated that about �5,000 demonstrator marched seven Miles from the Spanish capital 10 the afr base. No incidents were reported. Marchers included members of the Ami nato association left Wing labor unions and pacifist organizations. Demonstrators called for the departure of . Military and civilian personnel stationed at Torrejon Zaragoza and Moron air bases and he naval base at Rota in Southern Spain. Under an agreement signed in 1953 with Gen Francisco Franco the United states maintains 12,900 military and civilian personnel at the four bases. Prime minister Felipe Gonzalez s government approved another five year Exten Sion of the treaty in 1983. Spain became the 16th member of nato in May 1982, under a centrist government. After the socialists won an overwhelming majority in the october 1982 general elections the government which initially opposed membership in the Alli Ance won a referendum last March on the country s continued membership in nato belongings. ". La s very hard for him today Bonila said of her husband owner of Al s Wood Side Grill & grocery. He s jolting and he s laughing but it s All because of nervous Ness. It s very difficult to sit Here and watch your whole life Burn up in front of your eyes she added. No matter what if it does t affect me personally it s going to affect somebody we know. How do you Deal with these kinds of things on sunday officials said a Hunting Cabin valued at �3,000 and and outbuilding both unoccupied were the Only structures lost to the fire. Stowe said about 30 people mostly firefighters had been treated at he scene for smoke inhalation cuts and bruises. Officials estimated it his Cost nearly s147, to fight the fire. There were about 525 people lighting he fires not including . Forest service personnel said Joe Dean Secretary of crime control and Public safely. There were Lio pieces of equipment in the Field and air planes had dumped More than 1 million pounds of ire retardant on the Blaze Over the past week he said. The fire started May 5 about eight Miles North of Hampstead the booze marched North toward Onslow county before moving West parallel to North Carolina route 50,. Then went Back into Pender county heading South. The Blaze has been difficult to fight be cause of its unpredictability said Rebecca Richards of the division of Forest re sources usually a fire Dies Down at night,11 she said. This fire has not been like Moil fires. It ran monday night tried to Lake off again tuesday night took off thursday night and Friday night then died Down last  temperatures l h 41 i a m 70u to s3 72 10 64 Iba n son i n it w 79 Sitt l a to Lual 17 i Miami,14 77 i so Aro i to to. W to 50 7t. 51 7 pm u v44 it  link  Europea of Ither  1 4