European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 30, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes Friday. May 30,1986 death toll at 21, soviet says Moscow a the chernobyl nuclear Accident has claim cd 21 fives including those of 11 people who died despite receiving Bone marrow transplants n soviet doctor said in a statement released thurs Day in Germany. Or. Yevgeny Chan soviet co president of inc International physicians for the prevention of nuclear War issued the statement us the group Winner of the 1985 Nobel peace prize opened tour Days of meetings in Cologne. The figures provided by Chazov raised inc official death toll in the april 26 Acci Dent by two from the previous figure of 19. Chaz Avaid two people were killed immediately in the fire and explosion at the nuclear Power station to Miles North of Kiev and 19 others died inter n hospitals he said 299 people had suffered radiation injuries and bums. Of the dead cilium a said in a written statement Given to reporters ii had received Bone marrow transplants a tech Nique used to treat radiation victims. Large doses of radiation destroy Bone marrow. Who Chan be fatal Chaitov who was summarizing a soviet report on he Accident said the casualty to was As of our Dale of our departure from  can Wev did not specify when his group left Moscow. On wednesday the official soviet news Agency no Vosti indicated 1,000 people were injured in the chernobyl Accident including residents who were evacuated from an 18-mile zone around the facility. However a telex sent thursday to inc associated press in Moscow said the figure of 1,000 refers to people examined and not to cases of radiation  Valery a cow of novo Sli s North Ameri can department said the telex was intended As a formal correction to the Agency s wednesday report. No Vosti s English language report said a special learn was created to screen the injured the original report said four hours after the disaster a special medical learn was ready to Fly from Moscow to the nuclear Power station. Within 24 hours they selected the Hundred most serious cases out of a thousand. The third and last Batch of patients now treated in Moscow Are from among the  no Vosti editor Anna Nikolayeva author of the report distributed wednesday told he a by Telephone that her original account had been poorly translated. She said the russian language version which was not nude available 10 the a specified that the 1,000 referred to people who were examined the a tried to Contact four different officials at the no Vosti Agency wednesday night to seek clarification of the dispatch. The Only person reached at the Agency was a woman who did not identify herself but who said she could not comment on the report. " Nikolayeva also said or. Angelina Gus Kova chief radiologist at Moscow s Hospi Tal no 6, had specified that none of the hospitalized patients were residents of the evacuated zone around the Plant. All the patients worked at the Power station site Nikolayeva said. Thursday1 telex stated Guskova had said those hospitalised were the employees who were on the station s territory when the Accident occurred. But since they did not show any signs of injury at first they were evacuated with their families As soon As they showed the first sign of sickness they were selected by local doctors on the evacuated territory and brought to Moscow tie telex said. Moscow radio said two weeks ago doctors news update Winans conviction upheld new York a a divided Federal appeals court tuesday upheld the conviction of former Wall Street Jour re reporter a Foster Winans for Ille Gally trading in securities based on his Advance knowledge of stories the newspaper would publish. A 2-t majority of the 2nd . Circuit court of appeals said Winans his Roommate David Carpen Ter also a former journal employee and for Mer stockbroker Kenneth p. Felis violated the Laws that ban insider trading by taking advantage of Winans position for their private gain. Winans and Felis were convicted of securities fraud and wire and mail fraud last june while Carpenter was found guilty of aiding and abetting them. New Villa for Duvalier Crosse France a ousted haitian presi Dent for life Jean Claude Duvalier and his family will leave the Hilltop town of Grasse thursday or Friday to move to a Villa in nearby Cannes on the French Riviera real estate Industry sources said. The lease or the id room Villa with swimming Pool and Tennis courts in which he has been living since March 7 expires on saturday Duvalier Bis wife Michele their children and aides arrived in France feb. 7 on a us. Air Force transport pm Seafler being forced to flee port a Prince. The foreign ministry says a search to find another country of residence for Duvalier continues Jal posts $38 million loss Tokyo up Japan air lines uie troubled Flag Carrier posted a 138 million after lax loss for the 1985 fiscal year thursday citing millions in losses from the world s worst single plane crash the airline said the crash or a jumbo Jet last year related expenses and a subsequent Sharp drop in Domestic passenger traffic were key factors in one of its worst performances. The previous year was one of its Best. Had it not been for the Accident we would have been in a very Strong position said Jal spokes Man Geoffrey Tudor. The jumbo on a Domestic flight aug. 12 from Tokyo to the Western City of Osaka lost control and slammed into a Mountainside in Centra Japan kill ing 520 of the s24 people aboard. Plan to a of a oof Stripe promotions scrapped after negative feedback 8y Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau Washington the army s top personnel official has scrapped a proposal hat would have allowed com Manders to give thousands of blood Stripe promotions to mid level cos each year. The proposal drawn up by farces a cd earlier this year would have Given commanders the authority to pro mole any eligible Soldier in their unit when another Soldier was demoted regardless of current promotion cutoff scares a for com official said wednesday. But it. Gen. Robert Elton in a recent message said the commanders of All major army commands except Gen. Robert w. Sennewald of for com would rather retain the current system of individual equity the concept of rewarding individual excellence. The for com people were the Only ones who came out strongly in favor of the blood Stripe system an army Venonne spokesman in the Pentagon said. The spokesman said the for com plan originated after the command canvassed its general officers about their altitudes toward the blood Stripe system. They strongly favored restoring the system which was phased out in the Early 1970s As us involvement in lie Vietnam War ended. The for com plan called for blood Stripe promotions to be limited to soldiers already on the promotion lists Tor grades a i and e-6, said the command official. Toe plan also stipulated thai the demoted and promoted soldiers hold the same Job specially. The army personnel spokesman said an estimated 1,200 soldiers could have been promoted to e-6 and another 3,600 to is annually under the plan. When the for com plan was sent to Elton he tent it to the top officials of other major army commands Tor feedback. With the exception of for com All the responses strongly reinforced the View that the current enlisted pro motion system is providing the army with the Best possible no corps because soldiers Sec it As a fair system Elton said. You further advised us that you feet the current sys tem provides sufficient Opportunity for command involve ment in the promotion process through commanders Deci Sions on whether to recommend soldiers for promotion the number of Points awarded and the capability to remove soldiers from standing promotion lists,1 Elton said commanders also influence soldiers potential Tor pro motion by providing opportunities for continued education and providing Quality training he said. But he said the current system of individual equity is clearly a peacetime system 1 he encouraged the army s senior commanders to look for alternative ways to reinforce the idea of unit equity. He said that As the army searches for ways to modify its personnel policies to Reward unit equity and cohesion decentralized promotion properly controlled by com Manders will clearly be an important consideration the army personnel spokesman said Elton is concerned that a blood Stripe promotion system in peacetime would be perceived As unfair by some soldiers that system does t necessarily Reward the Best sol Diers in a unit he said. It s up to the unit commander who to  he said the result might be that the Soldier with the most promotion Points May be passed up for promotion to favor of someone with fewer Points. But in wartime. The blood Stripe system or something very similar would be needed to fill casualty vacancies be said.  Britain changes satellite launch from shuttle to ariane rocket correction in yesterday s edition an article about summer discount fares for youth passengers incorrectly identified Paul Mausezahl general manager of trans world airlines in Frankfurt u Paul Mace the stars and stripes regrets the error. In yesterday s edition of stripes Magazine the recipe for Middle Eastern Yogurt Chicken included an error. The Correct amount of freshly ground Pepper should have read it Teaspoon not 3 w Teaspoons. London up Britain switched the launch of a military satellite from the . Space shuttle to the French ariane rocket becoming the first shuttle customer to change to ariane ube defense ministry said wednesday. The British could be the first of a Stream ots Bustle custom ers to change to the French built ariane officials Laid. The British sky net 4b military communications satellite was scheduled la be deployed in space by the is. Shuttle in january 1987, but the explosion of the space shuttle challenger in january made that liftoff Uncertain. A defense ministry spokeswoman said the switch was made when we were Able to gel a firm launch Dale at the end of 87" from ariane. Another satellite sky net 4a, which was to be launched by the shuttle next month will remain booked on the shuttle because it was completed and built to work with shuttle specifications the spokeswoman said. The sky net 4b was More easily modified for an Ariail launch she said. After the challenger disaster Arian space. Which Sells launches on ariane announced it would make available eight extra launch slots in 1987 and 1988. Of fight Chi or were already fully booked. The French company said it has had is inquiries for the eight Slot four of the launch slots have now been re served three for japanese satellites and the fourth for the British skin eur. Britain had already placed an order with Arian space for the launch of Seynei 4c,-which is still being built and is not expected to be launched until mid-1989. Examined All 92,000 evacuees who did not begin leaving until 36 hours after the Acci Dent and found none with illnesses related to radiation.  earlier this week Yevgeny Vel Lvov i prominent physicist and one of Hoje direct u ing decontamination work at the chernobyl to Plant told a news conference that 19 people had died from inc disaster. Guskova was said by the official soviet news Agency Tats to have Given a report thursday to a scientists conference in the soviet capital on peace and nuclear disarmament. Among inc factors she discussed were the influence of an atomic blast on physical. And psychological fitness of people toss said. -.-. She m condensed form told the Confer ence about the main consequences of nuclear War for people s health As Well As analysing the tasks of a physician in the Light of a similar experience toss said in apparent reference to the chernobyl Acci Dent. Lev Bolkunov chairman of the soviet House of unions said during a visit to Bonn the Kremlin will provide within tin weeks a detailed report on the disaster to the International atomic Energy Agency in Vienna Austria