European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 4, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes saturday june 4. 1988 of finds High radon Levels at 3 bases by William j. Bartma Washington Bureau Washington the air fora has released its initial findings on the level of cancer causing radon Gas found at its . Installations but said the result for overseas facilities Are at least another week away. While the initial news was goad when compared to the National average three installation were found to have serious radon problems Andersen apr on Guam and the air Force Academy and Peterson fab both in Colorado. Facilities at these bases showed radon Levels above 20 Pic curies per liter. The Epa has set a level of four Pic curies of radon per cubic liter of air As he goal to strive for to maintain a Low risk environment. For Levels exceed ing 20 Pic curies the environmental  recommends corrective action within several months. Out of 4.4d4 radon samples taken at 135 major air Force bases 4.8 percent showed radon Levels above the four Pic Cunes per liter level. Among private Homes tested nationwide by the Epa 14 percent to 20 percent of the houses had Levels above four Pic Cunes per liter. Air Force official said it would take at least a week o announce the results at foreign installations because Host nations tint must be alerted to the mulls. . Embassies will notify the Host nation of the test results Safe spokeswoman mid Friday the letting began in december As the initial phase of in Effort 10 determine the level of radon in air Force facilities and what remedial actions would be necessary the army announced plans in March to to Randi. Lately begin testing All of its installations worldwide for dangerous Levels of radon Gas. The Navy has Dot yet announced its plan for radon testing which is being encouraged by the  is a naturally occurring odourless colourless radioactive Gas produced by decaying uranium in the soil research has shown that extended exposure to elevated level of radon increases the risk of devel Oping lung cancer. Forty nine air Force installations had structures showing radon Levels Between four and 20 Pic curies per liter. At this level the Epa recommends corrective action within a few years. The air Force said All structures with radon read Ings greater than four Pic curies per liter would be corrected to meet Epa guidelines a detailed assess ment and repair of Buo dings is scheduled to begin Over the next six months. For Andersen and Peterson air bases and the Academy two radon detectors will be placed in All habitable structures. 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Mohawk indians late thursday cleared roadblocks Sci up across Highway 132 and Murcier Bridge which connects Montreal with suburbs on the South Shore of the St. Lawrence River. The blockades went up after 200 police officers raided the Reserve and arrested 17 people for Selling cigarettes smuggled from the United slates. After the raid mohawks with rifles Slung Over their shoulders parked an 18-Whccl truck across the Highway and dumped gravel on the Road closing the major artery and Bridge and causing chaos for commuters. The standoff continued until late thursday. Report ers at Murcier Bridge said the indians set up what looked like a machine gun. Late thursday Earl Karo Nikta a spokesman for the Mohawk Warrior society said the Murcier Bridge will remain Clear As Long As we re not being jerked around As Long As our people Are being treated like human  in Ottawa a Mohawk Delegate to the meeting with Canadian officials stormed out an hour after it started calling the session pointless. Quite clearly., the talks were not too productive or successful said Joe Norton Mohawk grand chief after emerging from the meeting. Norton said the mohawks failed to gain a guarantee from the Royal Canadian mounted police that there would t be further raids. Acting police commissioner Hank Jensen said after the meeting that the raids were the result of a Lon investigation pan of a laborious task that you Don t launch overnight and the Force will do it again when there Are flagrant abuses of the Law. The mount is carried out the raid using search War rants and said they seized j4so.ooo Worth of cigarettes bought duty free in the United slates. Police said the 17 people arrested would probably recharged with smuggling Canada exempts indians from taxation but Only for goods sold to indians. The mohawks have been importing tax free cigarettes from the United Stales and reselling them o non indians. A Carton that would sell for $20 if taxed Sells for about s 14.50. Customs officials estimate the illegal cigarette Trade is Worth $16 million a year at two reservations alone Kahn awake and the Akwesasne Reserve straddling the Border Between Cornwall Ontario and Massena,. The raid and blockade came less than 24 hours after Georges Erasmus National chief of the Assembly of first nations issued a warning that frustration with the Federal government s inaction on Indian concerns could Lead to violence. Canada s 387,000 indians have pressed the govern ment for three years to negotiate constitutional Guaran tees on Indian self Rule. W. Germany asked to probe 52 suspected of nazi crimes Jerusalem up a holocaust historian asked West Germany thursday to investigate 52 suspected nazi War criminals believed living in the country. Efraim Zutoft director of the israeli office of the los Angeles based Simon pics Anthal Center gave the list of i2 names to the West German embassy in Tel Aviv. West Germany received a list of another 44 names about a year ago and is investigating those cases Zurolo said. During the past year and a half Zuroff has Ted the centers research efforts to track Down nazi criminals believed to have taken Refuge in the West after world War ii. The nazis killed 6 million jews As Well As thou Sands of gypsies political opponents retarded people and others they considered undesirable. The names on the Center s most recent list include members of the arajs commando unit Active in 1941 and 1942 primarily in Latvia Zutoft said. The unit is said to have killed about 30,000 jews in the latvian capital of Riga in mass murders nov. 30 and dec. 7,1941, he said. Zuroff director of the Center s los Angeles Headquarters from 1978-1980, said he and two other researchers have Given to nine governments the names of 397 people they suspect of nazi War crimes. These lists have a very important Rote in convincing various governments either to investigate or to change their Laws to enable the prosecution of nazi War criminals in their countries he said. Although the Center was not involved in the recent Case of John Demjan Juk Zuroff said the retired . Auto worker s conviction proves that governments can convict nazi War criminals 45 years after the events. Do Manjuk 68, was convicted and sentenced to death in april for being the sadistic death Camp guard Ivan  chinese antique auction prices itself out of sales Beijing a Beijing s first Large scale auction of Antiques ended Friday with Over priced items going once going twice and gone Back to the warehouse. Of 33 Antiques valued at $270,000 put on Sale Only three of the cheapest items bought by a japanese businessman and his friends for$2.168, were bid on. " we d buy if the prices were reasonable Saida Hong Kong businessman who left before the show ended. But the prices Are Way too High. They Don t know How to auction. They re Start ing far too  British rail to redevelop derelict area of London London a Britain s stale owned rail Road named its partner on thursday to develop a huge and largely derelict area of London around King s Cross and is. Pancras train stations. British rail called it the largest inner City re generation project in Europe. The redevelopment of the 120-acre site by the specially formed London regeneration consortium has been planned to Lake 10 years from1990 at a Cost of 6 billion pounds about jul billion. The area of Railroad Yards warehouses Gas meters scruffy shops and Low Quality apart ment blocks will be developed to provide new offices Homes shops business premises and Lei sure facilities. Heat wave leaves 400 dead in Northern India new Delhi India a a searing heat wave in Northern India has left nearly 400 peo ple dead in the past six Days the United news of India re ported. The temperature in parts of Punjab stale exceeded 113 degrees. New Delhi registered a High of 111 degrees. An Effort to invoke rain through a hindu fire ritual called a Magna apparently failed the news Agency said thursday. The Vigna was performed last week in the town of Mathura in utter Pravesh suite with meteorologists allowed to Monitor potential weather changes uni said. The scientists reported thursday that despite the sacred flames no rain has fallen on Mathura or surrounding areas