European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 5, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes thursday june 5, 1986 . Klonin opt or by Ltd or let Hill it radio controlled re u Rem i a a Remote controlled cleanup layer of topsoil round the soft cd Lunion s at so Tufts ire working to clean up be area c her Nobel nuclear Power plan. Hundreds around the Plant s no. 4 reactor Nich released Inlo the Tmur Otwal following to april 26 fir ind exclusion. Chernobyl death toll now 25, soviet doctor says Moscow a the chernobyl nuclear disaster has claimed iwo More lives bringing Ilie death toll id 25, a Savin Doc Tor wid tuesday. Me also disclosed thai people initially were hospitalized after the Accident. Or. Leonid Lilyin. Dirac or of Moscow s Hospital no 6, where the most seriously ill patient were taken. Said about 30 of hem remain in critical condition. He Laid 111,000 people arc hospitalized for up to three Days in Kiev and other ukrainian cities a Flor the april 26 disaster. But he twid doctors found they were Only suffering from anxiety. None of inc 18,000 had problems Lilyin did. In any evacuation there is psychological stress and different people read differently. So we. Wanted to Cheek everyone who was it said Doe tors concluded All 18,000 were in perfect health Lilyin spoke at a news conference called by the International physicians for the prevention of nuclear War which won the 1985 Nobel peace prize. However he did tint go into much detail because the group s american co chairman. Or. Bernard Lown. Complained hat the news conference was to Ikuss disarmament not chernobyl. The group s soviet co chairman or. Yevgeny Chazov said last week in Cologne. Germany that 21 people Tiad died including two workers killed outright in the explosion and fire. Or. Robert p. Gale an american Bone marrow transplant specialist treating Cher Nobyl patients said last thursday the death loll was 2j. Including the two killed instantly Lilyin said a chief concern about those still hospitalized was a drop in their natural immunity. I should Lay thai quite a few patients arc with second and third degree acute radiation he said. He was not Given an Opportunity to elaborate. Bone marrow transplants have been per formed on the most critically ill patients in an Effort to prevent them from incurring grave infections at the radiation in their bodies destroys blood cells. Doctors have said patients who recover still May face higher risks of cancer and other diseases later in life. Chazov said last week that 11 of those who died had undergone Bone marrow transplants. About 300 severely ill people were brought to Moscow after the disaster. It is nol known How Many others Aie Hospital lied outside Theca Peutl Lilyin said a total of about 100,000 people the number ordered evacuated from the danger zone were checked by medics and doctors. He said cases of Rodia tinn exposure were limited 10 the several Hundred Plant workers. The last statement in the soviet news Media on chernobyl casualties was May 14. When soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorba Chev said there had been nine deaths. Statements made by soviet officials outside the soviet Union on the higher death toll have not been published Hen. Instead. Soviet press reports Hove focused on decontamination work and the pts Biti to of some evacuees returning Home. The communist party newspaper pravda Inid tuesday that 160 families from he settlements of Glinka. Zamos Che and by Chen could return Home Toon the first evacuee from an 18-mile Zon around the Plant to do so. No Date Wai Given. But the town of privy no. Where most chernobyl workers lived will not be habitable before fall Al the earliest pravda indicated. Prip Yai had a population of 21,000. The newspaper said workers at he no. 1 and no. 2 reactors which were not dam aged but were shut Down 01 a precaution will be housed on River cruise ships when the reactor Are restarted sometime after october. Soviet television s main news program tuesday night carried interviews with fire men in Moscow Hospital no 6, including so me whose Heads had been shaved. The firemen said they fell Fine and wanted to rejoin their families soon. The telecast gave no indication of their injuries or treatment. 2 brands of French cheese pulled from army commissaries we Bruecken Germany
