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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Saturday, October 10, 1987

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 10, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars  stripes saturday october 10.1987 Appu Rothree sonar equipped boats sweep Loch Ness in Scotland during i search for the legendary monster 24 boats using latest sonar to search Loch for Nessie Drumnadrochit Scotland a Twenty four boats carrying the latest sonar equipment swept the Choppy Waters of Loch Ness thursday inthe big Gisl Ever scientific Hunt for the legendary monster lurking in its  after the first sweep began the monster Hunt ers were reporting sonar  with unidentified objects. One boat discovered a very Lane Lump at the Bottom oruic754-fi�-Dcvp Lake they  contacts which could be anything were reported Over a radio intercom linking the 24 motorboats taking part in the search. Adrian Shine a 38-year-old London Salesman Heads the expedition code named operation deep scan to find the Loch Ness monster. Loch is the scottish word for Lake Shine who led an earlier expedition in 1982, has studied the Lake for 14 Yean. I m certainty  to haul a Jurassic reptile out Lucking  screaming for you said Shine referring to prehistoric creatures. I am looking possibly for a very Large fish i would be delighted with a 20-foot eel or Stur Geon or something Tike that he told a news Confer ence thursday  motorboats formed a ragged line across the mile wide Lake sweeping the murky Depths with the sonar equipment they kept As aligned As possible to ensure that nothing could escape their solar  does emerge even Shine says the legend that began in . 565, when St. Columba castigated the monster fora lacking one of his followers will live on. You Don t kill myths with science he  expedition officially began at mid morning after the identical 32-foot boats spent about half a hour trying to get into formation. Shine said each sweep Down the 23-mile-Longlake is expected to Lake six hours. In 1982, Shine s expedition recorded 40 sonar contacts with Large sometimes moving objects As much As 350 feel  the three Day probe verifies the 1982 sonar contacts Shine said it Stilt will not be possible to determine just what Nessie is. Then we will go on to the next stage which will involve other technologies he mid. The More than 4,000 reported sightings of Nesslein modern times have included Long necks  tails  a primeval Flipper. Sceptics have dismissed them As everything from ducks otters shadows  rocking vegetation to a Viking  of the equipment including state of the Art sonar scanners made by Lowrancy electronics inc. Of Tulsa okla. And the boats Are on loan from a local rental  methods for tracking the monster have included sprinkling bread crumbs across the water smearing a Model monster with Salmon Oil launching an amphibious Volkswagen  lowering a baited age into the Lake. World today activist says Kab police detained 2,000 tatars Moscow a about 2,000 crimean tatars a out on a 150-mile March to their Homeland but were detained after less than five Miles by a swarm of police  Kab agents a human rights activist said thursday. Vladimir Ryabokon  tatars Wen detained wednesday after covering Only about four Miles of their March from the Black sea town Oltaman to Simferopol in Crimea Ryabokon an editor of Floc unofficial weekly human rights  dissident journal express chronicle said some of the marchers were beaten  the group was taken to a local cultural Center in buses. About 200 managed 10 escape  continue the March but their exact whereabouts was not known Ryabokon  group was planning to arrive in Simferopol on oct. 18, the anniversary of the formation of the tatars autonomous Region within the soviet Union he said. Workers search for 11 burled in Earth slide Jakarta Indonesia up Rescue workers Fri Day starched a mud covered Road construction site for 11 Sumatra buried in an Ean slide after they had attempted to Rescue a Road worker. The slide buried 28 people near the Village of in timing a Huum Agodong some too Miles . A police official said Rescue workers by thursday night had uncovered seven bodies including the construction worker  10 people severely injured in the mishap. Officials said there was Little Chance that the 11 who remained buried Wen still  slide occurred wednesday when the worker operating a Bulldozer to remove soil at a Road construction site was buried As the Hill Side collapsed tycoon charged with theft granted bail by . Court London up British tycoon sir Isadore Jack Lyons was freed on bail Friday  ordered to return to court next month to face nine criminal charges including the theft of $5.2 million from the guinness brewing  71-year-old multimillionaire was released by Bow Street magistrate court on two sureties totaling$412,500  on condition he surrender nil passport. 2 austrians reach top of world s 7th-tallest Peak Katmandu Nepa a an austrian expedition made it to the top of mount Man Stu the world s seventh highest Peak according loan official message received Friday from the base Camp. Waller Hauser a 28-year-old Carpenter from Zell am Sec  Johann Schmayer a 40-year-old police officer from phones reached the Summit of the26,774-foot Peak at noon through the Northeast Side Ridge the report  were accompanied by a nepalese guide Lhakpa Sonam 24, during the ascent of the  three men carried out their final attack from Camp no. 3, perched at 21,746 feel. 10 Broz ans fight for lives after exposure to cerium Rio de Janeiro Brazil a ten people who touched  tasted a Beautiful glittering substance Are no fighting for their lives in what a . Physician called the West s worst Radia Tion Accident. The victims were flown to Rio Las week after coming into Contact with Cesi um-137, a radioactive isotope used inthe treatment of cancer patients. Five were nol expected to live  the other five had an even Chance of surviving specialists said. Among those not expected to live Wasa 6-year-old girl Leidy Das Neves per Arciro who rubbed the radioactive mate rial Over her body  even tasted it. Only the chernobyl nuclear reactor Accident in april 1986 in the soviet Union was worse said or. Gerald Han Sou a . Doctor with the world Heath organization. Thirty one people have died for the Accident in which a reactor at the Cher Nobyl Plant exploded  sent a Cloud of radiation that eventually circled the world. Hanson who came to Brazil to help treat the victims was interviewed thurs Day by Lobo to Brazil s largest television network. Government investigators arc looking into who was responsible for allowing the Lead encased cesium-137 to end up inthe Hinds of a junkyard owner who bought it As scrap  broke the casing open. The United states the soviet Union East Germany  Argentina responded loan Appeal this week made through the International atomic Energy association in Vienna Austria for help in treating the 10 patients hospitalized in Rio in critical condition. Six patients were hospitalized i slightly better condition in Goiania a Central brazilian City where the Accident occurred last week. The victims have suffered hair lost lesions in the Mouth  Throat  a Sharp decline in White blood cells. A scavenger found the Lead encased cerium in the ruins of a partly demolished Hospital in Goiania  sold the210-Pound capsule to a junkyard As scrap officials said. The junkyard owner broke open the Lead casing around the cerium  re moved the powder which was Admi Redas Beautiful by friends  neighbors taken into Homes flushed Down toilet Sand carried around in pockets. Once the contamination was discovered 30 families were moved from the area their Homes closed for radiation checks  an isolation Post set up in a local soccer stadium to Check people for radiation poisoning. Helicopters circled the neighbourhood  found High Levels of radioactivity. Nuclear specialists prepared to re move contaminated objects from the Homes near the junkyard residents said they have been ostracized by friends  relatives in Goiania a City of 800,000 people 8 to Miles North East of Rio. Everybody thinks we Are a band of lepers said Maria Dos Santos whose family has been left homeless by the Inci Dent. The Federal police Are investigating to determine Legal responsibility for the contamination. There is no doubt there was negligence said health Secretary Antonio Flera of Goias Sute a fanning Region of which Goiania is the capital the owner of the Hospital should have told the National nuclear Energy commission the institution bad been deactivated  that was nol   
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