European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 11, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes monday August 11,1986 soviets reject radiation Bill from Oregon Moscow a the soviet Union said saturday Hal a radiation increase in Oregon after the chernobyl disaster probably was caused by . Nuclear tests and that the state should have sent its Bill for monitoring radioactivity to Washington instead of Moscow. Meanwhile. Premier Nikolai Ryzhkova and Kab chief Viktor Cheri nov inspected the chernobyl area and discussed the construction of new housing for Resi dents  following the april 26 nuclear Power Plant Accident the official Tass news Agency reported. It said Ryzhkova and Chubrikov spent Friday and saturday touring inc nuclear Power station where the destroyed no. 4 Reader is being entombed in Concrete and talking with officials of la two regions from which More than 100,000 people have been evacuated. By october All evacuated families will have secured Well equipped housing Tass said. The explosion at the reactor to Miles North of Kiev emitted a radioactive Cloud that eventually was detected around the world. Soviet officials evacuated residents from an 18-mile-diameter zone around the Plant and Lacr estimated direct damage at the equivalent of j2.8 billion. It is believed that at Leasil people were killed in the explosion and fire at the no. 4 re actor or by fatal doses of radiation. Pravda the communion party newspaper mocked he Oregon health division for sending a s7 3,060 bill10 soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev Tor what it said was the Cost of monitoring air rain drinking water plants and milk after radiation from chernobyl drifted Over the Pacific Northwest. It suggested that any increase in radiation in Oregon could be traced to the Nevada nuclear lest Range or to the Hanford wash., nuclear reactor that produces plutonium for nuclear weapons. I is hard to find on the map of the .a. A state so far removed from the chernobyl nuclear Power Plant and so close to the . Nuclear test Range in Nevada As Oregon pravda said. Limhi in Stirtm in of Tor Tamn my Conw Tny Ottum part two to world today yet when a noticeable increase in inc radiation level occurred Over the Pacific coast of the ., the health administration of Oregon did not miss a Chance to draw the conclusion that it was soviet radiation the newspaper said. It said Oregon officials who ordered radiation monitoring overreacted and then could think of nothing better than to Send the Bill to. Mikhail Gorbachev. Only in this Way he initiators of that absurd undertaking wicked. Was it possible to prove they had not wasted the  pravda also quoted the . Journal nuclear times As saying radiation from the Hanford Plant is one of the source of permanent radioactive contamination of the Columbia River , would t it be belter to Send the Bill from Oregon. To the while hour the newspaper Laid. Have cause sabotage May Bhopal disaster paper reports London a Union Carbide officials suspect that a disgruntled employee Wai responsible for the 1984 explosion at its fertilizer Plant in Bhopal India that killed More than 2,000 people the sunday times of London reported. The newspaper said lawyers working for Union car bide the Connecticut based chemicals giant plan to question the employee about the Accident when therase Coes before a Bhopal District court later this month. The employee Wai not identified the Indian government has blamed the dec 2, 1984, Accident on what it alleges was faulty Plant de sign poor maintenance and inadequate safety features and procedures. The explosion released a Doud of poisonous Gas Over the City and More than 200,000 people were exposed to it Many thousands Are till suffering from the Poison s  newspaper quoted Harvey Cobert a company spokesman As saying our investigations to Date arc now focusing an a specific individual employee who was disgruntled and who bad ample Opportunity to deliberately inject the Large amount of water into the storage Lank which caused the massive Gas release. It is alleged that the Man intended Only la spoil a Batch of chemical after a quarrel with his supervisor the sunday times Aid. It said the company is Sug Gesting Hal he rigged up a water nose to a storage tank and that Ine plan went wrong. The sunday times said details of Union Carbide s accusation were Given first to a London based Trade publication. World  aureus. Its editor Hafra Tandy was Down to Connecticut last week and was lot by company executives thai they suspected sabotage the newspaper Taid. If Union Carbide Story is True then it throws new Light on the cause of the disaster the newspaper quoted Tandy As laying. If their allegation an in Liue then they Are trying to pull very elaborate and curious publicity  according to the sunday time . Lawyers rep resenting victims of Bhopal contend that producing an alleged Saboteur in court would not relieve Union car bide of liability. Captive s body to be returned Bogota Colombia up the body of Edward son a Bechtel corp. Engineer who died fan apparent heart attack while being held captive by left Wing guerrillas will be sent Back to the United states reports said  s body apparently was retrieved from the re mole Jungle where it was buried by rebels of the popu Lar liberation army which kidnapped Sohl 62, and John Geddes 56, on dec. 10 from an Oil pumping station in Northeast Colombia near the venezuelan Geddes a construction superintendent for Fluor corp., was freed june 2 and told officials Sohl died of an apparent heart attack May 17. Sohl was a resident of Santa Rosa Calif. Acc Hycl was contracted by Occidental Petroleum id build a pipeline in Eastern Colombia to transport Petroleum from the Rich Wells along the venezuelan Bor Der Fluor was subcontracted by Bechtel. The popular liberation army which signed a 1984 truce but later rejected it kidnapped Sohl Geddes and five Colombi an workers from the pumping station near the Village of uru 2sd Miles North of Bogota. The five other workers were quickly released and the rebels delivered a written Ransom demand. Bechtel negotiated secretly with the guerrillas and a company statement said Sohl s death was All the More tragic since Bechtel and others had already secured an agreement with inc guerrillas for the release of both men sex Indian army Leader assassinated by gunmen new Delhi India a gunmen on Sun Day assassinated a former chief of staff of the Indian army who had been the target of death threats by sikh terrorists the United news of India , . Vaidya 5�, and his wife were trav Eling by car when two gunmen on a motorcycle overtook them and fired shots uni said. The news Agency quoted an unidentified army official As saying Vaidya was Shol in the head and neck., the official said the attack occurred shortly before noon in Poona 72 Miles Southeast of Bombay. Vaidya was taken loan army Hospital. The general was Leader of the army when i attacked the sikhs Golden Temple in am Star in 1984 to flush out cite Milf at least 1,200 people were killed during the  have said Vaidya s name was on a terrorist  general retired Jan. 31. Opposition chileans gather to Bury student Santiago Chile a More than 3,000members of Chile s largest opposition party packed a Church and marched to a cemetery sat urday to Bury a student Leader who drowned under mysterious  Christian democratic party said it Nis pacts thai the student Mano Martinez Rodriguez was the victim of state terrorism by the country s military , a 24-year-old Industrial engineering student was last seen alive in Punk aug. 2, when he left his Home to deliver textbooks to a  body was found wednesday 62 Miles away on a Beach near the Pacific coastal town of Santo Domingo. An autopsy report issued Fri Day said he had drowned but there Wai a Bruise on the , who was Secretary general of the politically Active student association Al the University of Santiago was expelled from the state run institution late last year for fighting will police during student protests 2 arrests in Greece bring total spy suspects to 13 Athens Greece a the Antsis sat urday of two italians who were accused of photographing an ammunition dump brought to 13 the number of foreigners detained last week on suspicion of  up by police in various locations where there Are military installations were five Wesl germans five poles a Frenchman and the iwo  by the Lackful read a headline in the conservative newspaper Grad uni 19 greek Dai lies gave heavy coverage to the rash of arrests of camera carrying tourists. The italians were identified As Eduardo Pec Celli 37, a Bank employee and audio Manoi. 30, a gym teacher both from Monza. They were arrested near the Northern Border town of Alei Andropolis and jailed pending trial a police spokesman  Friday police questioned and then re leased five polish tourists who were taking Pic Tures in the area West of Athens. All 7 in Small plane die in crash near Tokyo Tokyo a a Croall plane crashed into a Rice Paddy near Tokyo saturday killing All seven people aboard police  plane appeared to break apart before plummeting to the ground police officer Akira Yoda quoted an eyewitness As saying. The plane took off from an Airport in gun prefecture Northwest of Tokyo and went Down in neighbouring Hailama prefecture about 31 Miles North of Tokyo Yoda said. It was on its Way to an Island South of Tokyo he  of the aircraft were scattered Over a 230-foot radius. There were no reports of dam age to local residences Yoda  said the cause of the crash was not immediately evident