European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 30, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday March 30.1989 Rea residents Fify feel resentment on k the anniversary Harrisburg. A Nap dents near he three Milf Island Power Resi Nesses. Plant remain angry about be nation s worst commercial nuclear Accident an said they still Bear physical and it motion Al scats 10 years inter the so called Accident at to i w at an act of violence against Mankind an of violence against the unborn sail Jane. Lee who lives in elders about ii Miles Southeast of Harrisburg and near he Plant. -".". About 150 people marched outside the they re lying she said. Why is it such a big dark secret. It must be covered up for National Security. With those kinds of friends i Don t need any / about 2,000 damage claims Remai Nagaitis the Plant owner Genera Public utilities corp. Deborah Baker of Middletown. Who is million settlement from the put owners insurance company said Herten research has convinced her that Plant monday near Middletown and the. A cd Dyni caused her son to be born id ii and Anlo nuck a activists were to with two s syndrome nine month begin a candlelight Vigil at 4 . Tucs e 10 years after the Accident started. The Accident began March 28, .1979, when a series of human and mechanical errors allowed the Plant s 150-ton, a Dio Anvic Core to lose Cooling water. Half the Core pulled and 20 tons of molten material raced to 111 Bottom of the reactor before it was held in Check by a remain ing Pool of water. Radioactive Gas was released into theat Mph arc Over several Days. Us icon Tell at the response to the Accident and their follow up health studies thai i found no evidence of Accident related ill after the disaster. If i Carmouch one person today with my mass Agni then i feel i have accomplished my goal she said. For us the Accident will i ways be in our a professor of Radia Tion physics at the University of Pitts Burgh and a critic of government health studies said radiation from the Accident boosted infant mortality in Pennsylva Nia new York and Maryland and cause thousand of other deaths by lowering people s immunity. Stem Glass said government official manipulated mortality data to hide the damage and he called for a Cong res to women protesters adjust Juns masks outside tie three mile Island Power Plant. Vional investigation he called a scandal he re of incredible proper. that s patently replied Faith Schottin fold. A spokeswoman for the new York health his allegations an not new said George Tokuhara research director forthe Pennsylvania health department. They arc absolutely untrue. It s Ridic Ulous. We Don t have an As to fire we re trying to report Lial Washington of the nation ,. Al transports i Ion Safiy Board ending its investigation of a Kentucky school bus Accident in which 27 people Werc killed i comm ended tuesday Julial More than one fifth of the nation Bettt Rcd the Board said the May 14, 19ss,crash worst Ever attributed to a Drunken Driver was clearly caused by condition of a pickup truth dry a who was driving the wrong i on an interstate when his vehicle collided head on with the bus. Rut in Uko said characteristics of the i bus contributed to the Acci Dent s sevc Rilyn the vehicle s unprotected fuel tank flammable scat covers and partially obstructed were All noted in the report adopted by the Board. The Board recommended thai slates set a Dair for phase out of buses not meeting. /1977. Federal standards i adopted nationwide the Rule would affect 77,000 school buses about 11 per cent of those now in use i would also affect. Thousands of former school buses used by Church groups and other organi Jalinos. The rive member Board after 10 months of investigating the crash near Carrollton / kv., also asked Stales to toughen their Drunken driving Laws. Specifically the Hoard proposed that slates adopt Laws that allow police to take away Drivers licenses prohibit plea bargaining in Drunken driving cases and end the practice of giving convicted Drunken Drivers reduced licensing penal ties if they enrol in treatment programs. Among safety improvements suggested by the Nosb which can Only recommend not require actions to other Federal agencies and the states were making Seal covers but of nun Flam Mable material putting More exits on school buses and making their fuel tanks More resist and to puncture in severe Acci dents. The Board noted that a 3-Inch tear in the fuel tank on the Kentucky bus led tothe fire that engulfed the vehicle. All 24 children and three adults who died were victims of smoke inhalation. Sard i. Was unclear Ifsich measures. Would \ have prevented that rupture which it said was probably caused by a Spring dislodged in the Coli Sion. The bus involved in the crash was built two weeks before the stiffened fed eral school bus safety requirements look effect april. I. 1977. It belonged to the first Assembly of god in Radcliff by and was returning late at night from an amusement Park near Cincinnati when the collision occurred. Among the Board s recommendations were that the National Highway administration require More fire retardant material in bus seat covers. That school buses be made to meet the same standards for exit doors imposed. On Public transit buses including the installation of either Marc a Xii or pop out windows. That the safely administration Eval uate and revise if necessary. Its stand Ards on the placement and shielding of school bus fuel tanks. That the Board conduct a lest of in creasing the number of wrong Way signs on divided highways to test the signs effectiveness to reducing wrong Way accidents which the Board said kill on average of 270 people a year. The 1977 standards cover besides strengthened fuel systems stronger scats toughened roof and body joints and More accessible exits. Nosb investigator John v. Moulden said the pickup truck Driver Larry ,-3j, of \vorthvillc.ky. J Likely had up to a 0.29 blood alcohol level when he crashed into the bus. That would by two thirds of the Way to what is generally considered a in that dose and is nearly three times the .10 level set by Kentucky As the Legal presumption of intoxication. Mousden said Mahoney was tested As having a .26 blood alcohol level 90 minutes after the Accident Mahoney is free on Bali with a nov. 8 trial Date on 27 murder charges. He has pleaded innocent. Moulden said Mahoney known As a Ligpit Beer Likely drank about full Case 24 cans on the Day of the crush. He in no Way could be judged compe Lenl to operate a vehicle the i Vesliga . Jirry Doctson a Hig Luvay Engineer Wuh the Board said to can conducted on the stretch of Highway where the crash occurred showed that the bus Driver had fewer than four seconds to react to the oncoming truck. To was quite dramatic in the tests Jackson said. The pickup came from nowhere in your Lane at least that s the Way it hairless Call going through hairy times Hillman Minn. Al1 a rare Holstein calf to warm Baldy the owners him in bom without hair has survived his first month by old flannel shirts. And because he ruts and cuts wearing flannel Shim and leg wraps but he faces easily mrs. Hohisel Hasvil Willim with leg wraps. The risk of fatal sunburn As summer approaches. Francis who specializes in Anu the local vet has been Here a couple of times to at the University of Minnesota s look at him and he said he s seen cacs with iwo. I
