European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 20, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes tuesday february 20, 1990 radiation exposure during flights poses fatal cancer risk study says _.,. F  ,1 ,.,. Non a Milf Lac kill thl a mlle to Mist Lff Wal by the new York times the risk of fatal cancer from radiation in airliners is 17 times greater than reported last week in a govern ment study the department of transportation has acknowledged after other scientists found errors. The original study had estimated the health risk from radiation As roughly equal to that of flying in a Cabin filled with cigarette smoke hut a recalculation shows that radiation is a far greater Hazard. For people who Fly the most vulnerable routes for 20 years the new estimates predict a cancer death rate of about i percent. While the new figures predict 1,000 cancers in 100.000 adults the old report predicted 59. The harmful radiation constantly bombards the Earth from the Sun and sources in space but for people on the ground it is largely blocked by the planet s atmosphere. The Hazard for people in air planes varies sharply. It increases for those who Fly most at the higher altitudes where atmospheric filtering is reduced and for those who take flights Over the poles where the Earth s magnetic Fields concentrate the radiation. Still the significance of even the revised risk prediction is not entirely Clear. This is because there is a Lack of evidence of actual elevated cancer cases among flight Crews. The air line pilots association for instance says there is no such evidence among its thousands of members. One study to be published soon does find More can cer cases among pilots but the group it measured was relatively Small and the effects of radiation could not be easily distinguished from other possible cancer causing factors the authors  complicating Factor is that the risk Esti mates arc based on mathematical models. Numbers of cancer cases have not been counted and Levels of radiation in air planes have not been systematically  pilots from Delta air lines Lufthansa. Amer ican United and Britannia have been flying with radiation detectors for several months and expect to have preliminary results from them  even that study s designers consider it Only a preliminary step and scientists will still be left with the ques Tion of How much cancer results from a Given dose. News updates Pakistan election Lahore. Pakistan up prime minister Binazir Bhutto s party scored a narrow Victory Sun Day Over the main opposition Alli Ance in a parliamentary by elec Tion seen As a test of the popularity of her 14-month-old government. However police said the polling in the Punjab province capital of Lahore was marked by attempts at vote fraud and clashes Between supporters of rival groups that left at least nine people injured including two police officers. The candidate from Bhutto s Pakistan people s party.  Gurki. Beat his chief rival from the islamic democratic Alliance the main opposition coalition by More than 2.200 votes in a constituency wih a total of 161.000  Vors. Elections official so d the  Al was about 65 percent. The by a action was caused by the death of Gurki s father. Ash Gar Gurki. Who won the seat by More than 6.000 to is in the no vember 1988 general cd Lions. The first democratic polls in the coun try in 11 years. Mongolian Reform Beijing a mongolian reformers formed an opposition political party on sunday to press the communist parly to relinquish us monopoly on Power a foreign source  mongolian democratic party was formed out of the Mon Golian democratic Union activist group which has held five huge rallies in the past two months to Call for an end to communist dominance said the source speaking on condition of anonymity. Also sunday. Chinese Premier Jiang Zemin met a High ranking mongolian communist party delegation in Beijing. China and its Northern neighbor have had strained relations. Chernobyl Plant Moscow a ukrainian legislators have called for the chernobyl Power Plant to be closed and demanded to know Why the Issue was not on the Agenda of the supreme soviet the Tass news Agency  said a majority of legislators attending the current session of the Republic s supreme soviet legislature agreed that chernobyl must be shut Down because of harmful effects on the ecology. Thirty one people died and hundreds were hospitalized following an explosion and fire at the Cher Nobyl Plant on april 16, 1986. Gorbachev May receive invitation to visit Bush at his Seaside Home Kennebunkport Maine up president Bush says he May invite soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev to his Seaside Home even though the two arc at Odds now Over the possible reunification of Germany. I think he d like it up  Bush said during a brisk stroll sunday along Goose rocks Beach. He also touched upon the two leaders differences. Asked if he planned to have Gorbachev As a new England guest the president told reporters. If we can do  Bush was to cum to Washington monday ending a three Day Holiday weekend. Gorbachev is expected to be in washing ton tills june for a superpower arms sum Mit though an exact a has not been set. There has been speculation that Bush might invite Gorbachev to the tiny fish ing and tourist Village of  shortly before or after the Summit. The Chance of such an invitation is taking on growing significance because of fast paced developments Over possible reunification of East and West Germany. The president reiterated his support sunday for a reunified Germany belong ing to nato despite a statement by Gorbachev s top adviser saturday saying the soviet Union would object. West Germany which has pushed reunification has ruled out Basing nato troops in what i now East Germany but the soviet Union says that Concession is inadequate. There will be a lot of discussion be tween now and the event Bush said. We be got our position supporting West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. We know what Kohl s position is. We re going to stay with it Bush said. Bush is scheduled to meet with Kohl this weekend at the presidential Retreat at Camp David my. Bush is to meet tuesday at the White House with two european leaders. Presi Dent Vaclav Havel of Czechoslovakia and Chancellor Franz Wranitzky of Austria. Bush spent a relatively quiet presidents Day weekend in  most of it at his Walker s Point estate where he and his wife. Barbara met saturday with a dec orator to discuss some remodelling. The Only times he ventured off the estate was for a five mile Power walk through the Snow covered town sat urday dinner saturday night at a Down town restaurant and an 80-Minule walk on the Beach sunday. Ethnic albanians demonstrate in troubled yugoslav province .-t.v,. I. A. -n., Man. Ihnn in rim in Ali gathered to Weston i Ristina chanting democracy