European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 30, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Tuesday May 30,1989 the stars and stripes page3 Nakasone quits governing party Over scandal Tokyo a former prime minister Yasuhiro Nakasone resigned monday from the governing Liberal democratic party to take responsibility for an influx acc paddling scandal thai brought Down his successor. Foreign minister sous pc Uno is expected to re place prime minister Noboru Takishita who will soon step Down because of the recruit co. Scandal. Also monday prosecutors charged four aides to senior politicians with illegal handling of Money in the recruit scandal. The prosecutors said their charges marked the end of the investigation into political do nations and Stock dealings of the information services conglomerate at the heart of the scandal. Nakasone. Who headed the Liberal democratic fac Tion to which Uno belongs resigned from the party but refused opposition demands to step Down from his scat in Japan s parliament because of the scandal. The decision came after Nakasone acknowledged before parliament on thursday that he had accepted $322,000 in political donations from the recruit co. But he denied any wrongdoing in the scandal which occurred mainly during his 1982-87 term As prime minister. Nakasone met Takishita on monday and conveyed his decision to resign from the party to take responsibility for his link to the recruit scandal. Those charged monday were Tunco Hattori an aide to former finance minister Kiichi Miyazawa Fumio Shimizu a aide to Liberal democratic Secre tary general Shintaro Abe and Kikuo Katayama an Masayoshi Sakamaki aides to former agriculture min ister Mutsuki Kato. The four allegedly violated the political fund restrictions Law by failing to report recruit donations in excess of $10,500. Each of the four could face a Fine up to $1,400. Remembering a Vietnam vet Vietnam Veteran buddy Shriver left helps Kevin Spencer get a rubbing of a name sunday from Phila Delphia s memorial la inc War in Indochina. The Little observer is Shriver s 1-year-old son Christopher. Cons end Ous of enfors recall Guinea pig1 tests Byers Schmitt , it. Not in the midst of world War ii. 20 Young men volunteered for the Guinea pig unit at the University of Rochester s medical school. The men were conscientious objectors who refuse to fight because of personal or religious convictions. Instead they chose to Volunteer for an unusual set of experiments to test the human body s tolerance of extreme temperatures High Altitude and diets with differ ent protein Levels. This weekend while other americans celebrated a memorial Day Holiday by decorating Graves marching in parades or watching fireworks seven of the 15 Liv ing members of civilian Public service unit 115-r gathered in Greensboro to reminisce about their experiences and to reaffirm their decision to serve both country and conscience through medical research. It was a Chance to serve and to do something worthwhile said Peter p. Watson 64, a retired real estate broker who is giving $1 million to the univer sity of Rochester to establish a peace studies Center. The reunion was held at Watson s Home. The experiments not Only helped american soldiers survive exposure in North Africa and aided fighter pilots in Ballac but also pioneered the development of modern respiratory Medicine. The work they published remains landmark re search said or. Marsh Tenney a physiologist Al the Dartmouth medical school in Hanover . Claiming pacifist status carried a much greater so Cial stigma for the 12,000 conscientious objectors in world War ii than for the 172,000 who claimed it in the Vietnam Era. In the 1940s Many objectors were threatened and taunted As cowards some went to jail. Most objectors performed alternative service in civilian units that fought fires cleared swamps or worked in psychiatric hospitals. But when the National office of scientific research and  created Guinea pig units to help the War Effort Many conscientious objectors volunteered for them seeing the program As an Opportunity to make a lasting contribution to humanity. From the fall of 1943 until the Spring of 1946. The 20 members of the unit Al Rochester s school of medi Cine and dentistry endured numbing cold blistering heat and life threatening decompression tests All in the name of science. The first Experiment studied the effects of dehydration on the body. Sve d go into a room that was 130 degrees and slay in there for As Long As 12 hours until we loss 10 percent of our body weight said Raymond Stanley 67, who operates a retirement Home in Barnesville Ohio. During the Experiment which was conducted every other Day for three months. The volunteers submitted blood urine and breath samples for analysis. Al the end of each Day. We d drink a liter Jug of lukewarm Salt water thai tasted marvelous better than Champagne said Watson. Nutrition experts Al Rochester were also trying to find an inexpensive source of protein to help countries stricken by famine after the War. They tested specific concentrations of certain ammo acids. Volunteers recalled successive diets in which wheat germ cottonseed hour or Sunflower hour was the test source of protein. Eggs were the base and we d have three Days of  Stanley said. Then we d have three Days of no protein just biscuits butter and sugar water. Then a period of biscuits baked with the test protein. And then three Days where we d drink an amino acid solution. It tasted Terri ble. You d Force it Down and it d come right Back up. Then it would be Back to three Days of  the diet tested the volunteers sense of humor. The Pancake shaped biscuits were so hard Hal the men recalled flinging them off the four Story Laboratory and watching the  Bounce but never break. At the end of each six week diet Cycle volunteers were rewarded with a stack and lobster Focasi with All the trimmings. To simulate High Altitude flight researchers bought a i moot High Beer processing tank Cut a Haich in it and hooked in up to a tree spraying compressor pump borrowed from the University s maintenance Crews. The Lank was big enough for iwo people to sit in. And then the doctors would make the air thinner and thinner Stanley said. Fighter pilots breathing Only air in their up Russu  Cabins could function effectively up to 15,000 feet. But in the experiments with the Guinea pig unit researchers found Hal the pilots could soar to More than 40,000 feet if they breathed oxygen through a mask giving them an advantage Over enemy planes. The primitive tank was risky. I d Black out coming Down from 15,000 feet too fast and my head would feel like a balloon said John j. Hail 74, an Osteopath from Massillon Ohio. Finally researchers conducted a hypothermia study. The program was set up on inc roof of the univer sity building said Berle Miller 69, a retired contractor who lives in Tanoose Bay British Columbia. We d strip to our shorts and then alternate silting and Riding a stationary bicycle for eight  the tests were held in late summer and Early fall 1945, with temperatures dipping into the 30s. Some Days you d be shivering so hard your body would turn Blue and you could hardly sit on the Stool said Mill 2 men die 2 Hurt when train hits parked rail cars Amarillo Texas a a freight train carrying fruit from California slammed into about 30 parked Railroad cars Early sunday killing the brakeman and the conductor and injuring two other workers aboard. One of inc parked rail cars was thrown Inlo a 110-car Coal train travelling in the opposite direction on an adjacent track but no one aboard that train was injured said Wayne big hic of the state depart ment of Public safely. Beighle said in was remarkable that no one else was killed in the Accident which occurred at 2 10 . The 35-car fruit train was headed for Chicago. Evidently icy thought the track was Clear High la said. That s still under investigation. I be never seen an engine torn up like that before in my life. I be seen a lot of train crashes but nothing like  both trains were being operated by the Santa be railway although the engines damaged in the Accident were owned by Burlington Northern. State investigators and Santa pc officials interviewed witnesses Early sunday As an investigation into the crash began. The National transportation safety Board also will investigate. The two workers who were killed were identified As brakeman Steve a Favreau 29, and conductor Robert n. Dawson 44. The train s Engineer identified As . Coleman was in critical condition sunday Al Northwest Texas medical Center in am Arillo. The other injured Crew member . Zermino was in Good condition at the same Hospital. All were from the am Arillo area authorities said