European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 6, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Capitol climb is easy walk for woman 91 Washington a a 91-year-old woman who likes to climb look on the inside of the United Sipics Capitol thursday. In was no contest. The Lolly Capitol lost. She won in a walk. In fact she said i found ii was t very Challing ing Hulda Crooks of Lama Linda Calif who climbs mountains and holds eight mild records in the senior olympics in track and Field barely worked up a meat As she climbed the j50 Steps inside the Capitol s dome trailed by huffing and puffing reporters and photographers in less than 30 minutes. We just got started she said As she reached the lop Wilh rep. Jerry Lewis a Calif. And Sci disc i or scr 14. Of South Jordan. Utah a world class Archer i thought it would be look at said Lewis she s hardly out of the Capitol s Deishl from the base line on inc East pram to the top of the 19-fool-6-Inch statue of Freedom is 2b7 feet. 5vi inches. Crooks observing National women in sports Day. Kepi a steady Pace As she climbed the winding stains Ell along the inside Wall of the dome now under repair and full . Her companion. Stana Musick kept reminding her to take it easy now saturday february 6, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 5 proposed germ warfare lab challenged As being unsafe by Norman Black organization that won the court ruling. A Mali urn writer after 2 Vij years of preparation we find this Grossl Rollin re write Washington the army claims it could build a High containment Laboratory in Utah to Experiment with germ warfare defences without posing 3 threat to the Public or environment. The Only reasonable foreseeable environmental consequence would be the Occidental infection of a Laboratory worker who then left the facility the army said in releasing a draft environmental Impact statement. A Laboratory acquired infection due to a procedural error was identified As the Only accidental Mode of release thai could not be eliminated by using the proce dures and control features of the new lab the document said. However the possibility of a Laboratory acquired infection is Low because of the established immunization surveillance program. All personnel must be successfully immunized with the appropriate vaccines before working in the lab it said. The draft Impact statement More than i i inches thick focuses on the construction of what the army Calls the biological aerosol test facility or Bat at the Dugway proving ground about 10 Miles Southwest of Salt Lake City. The army Hod hoped to begin constructing the new Laboratory in i9b5, but construction was blocked by a Federal judge who ruled the service had to perform an environmental impart study. The draft Impact statement which will be open for Public comment for about two months was immediately condemned Laic thursday by the private research organization i Mccoun after 2v grossly inadequate said Jeremy Rifkin the president of the foundation on economic trends. The army has not dealt with the Issue of terrorism or intentional sabotage he said. They have not dealt with emergency procedure and medical evacuations on a mass revel. And they place Reliance on immunization programs for employees when Many of the Patho Gens they would work with have no known vaccine the danger in operating such a facility is just As significant As a nuclear meltdown Zifkin concluded. If there arc no significant improvements Between the draft and final statements we Are prepared to re Liti Gate and file suit once the foundation on economic trends based in Washington is an environmental activist group that in recent years has focused on developments in the Field of biological and genetic engineering. The group de scribes itself As a Clearinghouse for Public information on the political economic and environmental implications of such research. The foundation has opposed the army s plans for the Bat from the Start arguing the military should not be experimenting with live deadly microorganisms. The Pentagon replies that it must test with live biological materials in certain cases
