European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 8, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday june b. 1987 the stars and stripes Page 3 a Towd of 10,000 watch Ibe commissioning of the Aegis aided Ralile Anil or Antie Tun saturday. Antietam commissioned Rob. Beverly b. Byron did christened he ship at Baltimore do Lalk Marine terminal. The ship s classmates include the Ticon Crog Yorktown and Vincennes. Writer gets eyewitness details of chernobyl Moscow a a soviet writer has provided new details of the chernobyl nuclear disaster based on first person accounts describing the radiation sickness that struck some victims and the delay in evacuating a nearby town. The first part of Yuri Shcherbak s report was printed id the latest edition of the monthly Yanosi which the associated press obtained Over the week end. Shcherbak interviewed doctors chernobyl work ers firefighters and residents of the nearby town of Prip Yat to provide a picture of the Accident through their by. An explosion and fire wrecked the no. 4 react rat the chernobyl Power Plant april 26, 1986. It killed at least 31 people made ill More than 200and released a Cloud of radiation that eventually spread around the world. The chernobyl Plant is located about to mile North of Kiev in the soviet Ukraine. Officials blamed the explosion on an unauthorized Experiment that went out of control and said those responsible will be tried. In Shcherbak s article 28-year-old or Valentin a Eikon described How he alone treated the first victims to come out of the Plant in the Early morn ing hours not knowing what happened inside and not immediately recognizing the symptoms of radiation sickness. The first victim he saw was a Young Man of about 18. The fellow complained of nausea a Sharp head ache and he started to vomit. They worked in the third unit and it seems had briefly gone into the fourth. I asked him what he had eaten when How the evening had  Belokon wrote that he called his clinic seeking help As he first treated three or four More Plant workers suffering the same symptoms and then Sev eral firemen. All he was Able to do he said was try to ease their suffering. By that time he understood that he was dealing with radiation sickness. Four hours after the Accident at about 6 a.m.,Belokon said he began to feel he same symptoms. Did i understand the danger was i afraid i understood i was afraid. But when people Sec that next to them is a person in a White coat it Calm them. I stood like everyone else without a Respirator without any Means of  he said Protection was t available. Belokon himself got sick and was one of those sent to a Moscow Hospital to be treated. A woman described Only As l. Kovalevskaya to dhow she went for a walk in Prip Yat the Newit morn ing a full Day before officials finally gave the order to evacuate the town i walk out on the Street and see the whole Road i flooded with water and same kind of White solution everything is while. I walk farther. I see herein a militiaman there is a militiaman 1 never saw so Many militiamen in our City. They Aren t doing anything but they arc sitting near strategic places the Post office the House of culture. Like in a War  she said Pri pyal residents were out As usual Tak ing walks or taking their children somewhere. People were going to the Beach to their Dachau going fishing. We did t know anything All Day no one nowhere said anything. Well there was a  about radiation thai there was radiation re leased nothing was  others who described the evacuation a Day late agreed with the official version thai there was no panic As residents were put aboard buses. Shcherbak said Pri pyal workers who knew of the dangers of radiation wrote to him that before their families were evacuated they called authorities an asked Why people were not being Lold to keep their children indoors. They answered us it s none of your  decision will be made in Moscow " they wrote. He said evacuation of other cities and villages inthe area was dragged out for eight Days and he criticized officials of the Ukraine for not visiting chernobyl until May 2. He said officials in Moscow recognized More quickly than those in Kiev that something alarming had happened in Kiev. Officials evacuated a 20-mile zone around the Power Plant and say that More than 200 people were treated for radiation sickness. They say no More illnesses traceable to the Cher Nobyl Accident have been found since then. Bob Delores Hope Are citizens of the Century los Angeles a Bob ind Delores Hope have been dubbed citizens of the Century during a Celebration of Hollywood s Loolah birthday and re creation of the world War la Cra United service organizations canteen. No two people in he world better symbolize All thai Hollywood was is or will be Ihan Bob and Del ores Hope Hollywood s unofficial mayor Johnny Grant said following the festivities saturday. Mrs. Hope could not attend the event sponsored by the Hollywood Centennial committee because she was on the East coast at lending a grandchild s graduation Grant said. But her husband was presented by Grant and actor Jimmy Stewart with Glass sculptures of the famous Hollywood sign. The party was held at the Uso Headquarters i1" los Angeles near tit former Uso canteen which was frequented by Sevirt maj and celebrities who entertained soldiers during world War 11. The Headquarters served hotdogs and hamburgers saturday As it did in those War Days and actresses such As Tracy Scoggins of the Colby and Jill Whelan of the love boat entertained servicemen attending the party. The party was styled Afler the Uso can Len because Hope performed on so Many Uso Tours Over the years