European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 17, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday. Feor teary 17, 1987 the stars and stripes pages chernobyl May increase infant retardation Chicago a women who were pc Gromi and lived near Julic chernobyl nuclear Power Plum when it exploded and burned last year Are so percent More Likely than others i give Hinn to a mentally retarded child ii  sunday or Robert Gale of the University of California in los Angeles who has treated victims of the chernobyl disaster said 300 babies have now been born to mothers when in exposed at Short Range to chernobyl s radiation during i hair pregnant a. The women lived within is Miles of the Plant. M area where no humans now live Ami Tew people go but the nuclear Power Plant s workers. Studies by Gale. Soviet doctors and the . Department of Energy estimate that 39of inc 300 infants will suffer from some form Ocrant Neal retardation Gale said. That is 50 percent higher than the 26 eases that would be expected in a Popula Tion of .100 infants not exposed to Radia Tion during fetal development Gale said. The estimate is based in part on stud its of survivors of the Hiroshima atomic bomb in world War ii Gale said at the annual meeting of the american association for the advancement of science. Those studies have shown that fetuses exposed to radiation Between the 8th week and 15th week of development  More Likely to have abnormal brains than fetuses exposed during other stages of development. Gale said. The reason he Cepja inc is that Dur ing this time a primitive clump of nerve cells called the neural Crest begins to or Ganic i Tel f into a t Iny brain. Gale has just returned from a visit to the chernobyl nuclear reactor. Two of the reactor s four units  of. Crating one is shut Down and i he one that exploded has been sealed in con Crete. Its nuclear Core remains hot enough to boil water. Gale said. Trees around the Plant Are Brown Gale said it s a fairly sizeable Forest completely radioactive he said. Gale was called to the soviet Union to do Bone marrow transplants on 13 of the most seriously irradiated victims a few Days after the chernobyl disaster on april 26. Two of the patients survived. The infants that have been bom to mothers who were in the Vicinity of the Plant at the time of the Accident showed no signs of abnormalities at Hirth. Gale said. We weren t expecting them and so that s an example of no news is Good news he said however it May take several years for mental deficiencies in the children to become apparent he said. Studies by Gale the International atomic Energy Agency and the . Department of Energy agree that Between 5,000 and i is you extra cases of cancer will occur around the world during the nest to jars As a result of the chernobyl Accident half of those victims will die he said. During the next so years however. 600 million people around the world  expected to die of cancer from other causes Gaie said making the number of extra deaths caused by the nuclear Acci Dent seem rather Small. It is very Small but obviously it is a tragic  Gale said. Two thirds of inc cancer cases will occur outside inc soviet Union he said. About one third of them will be Luke Mia which Wil begin to appear during the next few years. The other two thirds will be solid tutors he said. Ameriko miniseries draws pro anti demons Rafors by i if associated press a candlelight Vigil opposite the United nations marches outside abcs studios and television stations and demonstrations by Vale students marked sunday night s first instalment of a miniseries about a soviet takeover of inc United states. Abc spokesman Vic Ghidalia said the network Esti mated thai 70 million people saw at least part of amerika and that it was the highest rated opening night for a ministries since the to Robirds on  in March 198.1. Amerika a 4 hour  to series that depicts the soviets bloodless takeover of the United states has been criticised As potentially damaging to . Soviet relations and peace efforts. We re very concerned about the negative Impact in could have on .-soviet relations and Public support for the United nations said Kathy Waters project coordinator for mobilization for survival a pro disarmament group trial Urgani de the new York Vigil. Across Lown the new York Spur Tacil Lead fun which its leaders describe As a socialist labor Organiza Tion led the demonstration outside  studios As the broadcast began. The marchers chained world War three brought to you by  and other slogans and carried signs including one that read. Abc Macri Kukan Broad casting  " amerika has something insulting to say about every sector of  said Sparta Cist spokeswoman Marjoric Stamberg it s anti communist anti soviet and  Al Vale in new Haven. Conn., about 20 members of inc newly formed committee for Freedom staged mock Public executions sunday in support of amerika and to protest what members called worldwide App Novoa scene from the controversial miniseries amerika Sovil expansionism and  at the same Lime about 30 students opposed to the program gathered nearby and made plans to stage a sit in Friday at  s new Haven office according to Lisl Schullinger a Junior from soil Owsler okla. In the series the occupation troops Are portrayed As a . Peacekeeping Force. The series implies that a Liberal administration easily gave in to the soviets she said. We have a responsibility to speak out against dangerous right Wing propaganda she said demonstrators also gathered outside to stations in Chicago and in Necdham mass in Chicago Aboul 40 protesters from a group called the Chicago coalition for a fair Media picketed for about 30 minutes outside  affiliate was to. In Needham. A group of demonstrators protested briefly at a cab to sunday night brandishing signs and chanting in los Angeles about 33 demonstrators some dressed in traditional lithuanian costumes staged a peaceful hour Long demonstration in front of the  television studios in favor of amerika the show Drew a bigger audience than lbs and  combined in the nation s major cities. The two hour 20-minute premiere of the miniseries pulled a rating of 27.7 and a 43 share in the . Nielsen co. 13-City overnight Survey. For the prime Lime period from 9 . To ii . Est americas rating was 28.6 and a 43 share com pared to a rating of 17.8 and a 27 share for the  movie the facts of life Down  lbs s combination of designing women Noth ing is easy and hard copy averaged 8.2 and a 12 share according to the Nielsen figures which were provided to the networks and were released by  Sands of Tim aids threat growing in prisons toll among inmates hit 254 in 86 40?T��. A feb. 17, 1947 Secretary of a in the stars and stripes Washington up the threat of aids in the nation s prisons is increasing As 254 convicts died of the disease last year nearly double the number since 1981 and the number of confirmed cases jumped 61 percent the government said sunday. The National Institute of Justice reported there were 1,232 cases of aids in . Federal slate and local prisons and jails As of october 1936, and said that although inc Rale of increase was lower than the nation s on inc whole it is Likely that More and More correctional systems will experience aids cases each  the Justice department Agency said 466 new cases were confirmed during the 11-month period ended oct. 1, 1986 a it i percent increase. Among the nation s More than 500,000 stale and Federal prisoners at that time., 174 had inc disease in 23 facilities and another 29 had Active cases in sin county and municipal jails. The others had died or were released. New York c h. New York new Jersey and Florida accounted for 70 percent of All prison aids cases the study said. The 254 deaths represented 48 i rant of All aids deaths 529, reported in prisons since the first Case was discovered in a new Vork prison in 1981, the study said. As of feb. 9, the centers for disease control in Atlanta reported 30,632 cases of aids in the United slates of which 17,542 have resulted in death. The High rate of aids Toni Racion in prisons is predictable the study said because of the concentration in inmate populations of persons with. Characteristics closely associated with aids Young adult males hispanics and Blacks and intravenous drag abuse  and although surgeon general c. Everett Koop suggested to Congress last week that prison populations Are at risk the study found that for the most pan convicts with aids contracted inc disease before they entered jail. The few systematic studies that have been done suggest that aids virus transmission in prisons and jails has occurred infrequently the report said. James a. Stewart director of the Institute also said a handful of corrections staff personnel have contracted aids from outside sources Bui none of the prison systems responding to the Survey found a staff member had tested positive As a result of Contact with a prisoner. Aids cases have been identified in 58 of the 82 prison systems that were surveyed during the 11 months the study said. Feb 1 7, 1 947 Secretary of War Robert p. Patter son said Sharp Cut in German japanese and korean food rations caused by proposed military budget reductions could Lead to starvation and bloodshed in those countries. 30 years ago today. Feb. 1 7, 1 957 Secretary of stale John Foster Dulles conferred with president Eisenhower in Thom Asville ga., and afterwards spoke of action that the United states might Lake to get israeli troops out of Egypt. 20 years ago today. Feb. 1 7, 1 967 the Pentagon decided not to Fol Low inc recommendation of inc religion education advisory group of the armed forces chaplains Board to cancel 1 3.000 subscriptions to a presbyterian Sun Day school Magazine thai ran a poem written by a 1 3 year old tilled afterthoughts on napalm drop on Jungle villages near  j 0 years ago foday. Feb. 17, 1977 president Carter said he would agree o resume full diplomatic relations with Cuba once it withdraws its mercenaries from Southern Africa and fulfils of her conditions relating to human rights. He also said Cuba May be ready to remove its troops from Angola