European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 1, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a a the stars and stripes saturday september 1,1990effects at 3 mile Island downplayed residents health untouched study says Middletown a. Apr there is no evidence that radiation emissions during the 1979 nuclear Accident at three mile Island affected the health of area residents an Independent study released Friday concludes. The study by Columbia University scientists said there was no sign that the radiation caused leukaemia or childhood cancers among people living within 10 Miles of the Plant. Those illnesses Are More sensitive to Low level radiation than other diseases and Are the first to appear after exposure the scientists said in a briefing several Miles from the nuclear Plant near Harrisburg. The findings were published Friday in the american journal of epidemiology. They match the conclusions of a 1985 report released by the state health department that found no evidence of increased cancers in a 20-mile radius. In the latest study Columbia epidemiologists Mer Vyn Susser and Maureen Hatch studied the health records of 160,000 residents of 69 areas within the 10-mile radius. They also compared cancer rates Between 1975 and 1985. The Accident was the worst at a . Commercial nuclear Plant. During the Accident which crippled the unit 2 reactor radioactive gases were vented into the atmosphere. The study expands on a report Given in june to the american society of epidemiologists. That report found no association Between Tim Accident emissions and childhood cancers in a 10-mile radius around the Plant. Hatch said the june report was withheld from the Public until Friday because of a release embargo set by a the people in the Community Are suffering. They believe they have been  a Kay Pickering the scientific journal that published the findings. The study was funded by the three mile Island Public health fund which was established to study issues related to the Accident. The fund was established As part of a $5 million settlement of a 1981 class action lawsuit against the owners of Tim. In 1986, the funds administrators subpoenaed hospitals for health records used in the study. The report has been Complete for a number of months but publication was delayed because of revisions by the authors and peer review. The Accident at Tim 2 occurred after a combination of human and mechanical errors caused protective Cooling water to be drained from the reactor. Some of the reactors Cache of nuclear fuel melted and radiation was released into the environment. Despite the findings of government reports some Community members continue to assert the Accident left a legacy of illness that has yet to be officially recognized. Kay Pickering a spokeswoman for three mile Island Alert a citizens group said she doubted that a statistical study would go far enough to fully disclose health effects possibly linked to the Accident. She said a better approach would be to track a Sample of residents who lived within a 5-mile radius of the Plant at the time of the Accident. She said a similar Survey was done the summer after the Accident. A the people in the Community Are suffering. They believe they have been affected a she said. The 1985 health department study which was the first of its kind after the Accident found no pattern of increased cancer cases or deaths but it Dia turn up isolated instances of higher than expected cancer cases in several communities downwind from the Plant. The study dismissed those cases As statistically insignificant. A 1984 Survey conducted door to door found cancer deaths up to seven times higher than expected in sections of Newberry and Fairview townships near the Plant. The health department judged that invalid because it appeared to focus on streets where cancer victims lived. A 1986 Gnu nuclear corp. Summary of government sponsored studies said the 8 Milliren average radiation exposure for individuals within 10 Miles of the Plant was less than the 10 Milli rems generated by a single Chest a Ray. The highest possible exposure for someone who stood naked at the Plant Boundary throughout the Accident would have been less than 100 Milli rems said the review by Gnu the plants , alcohol not found in rockers body Elkhorn wis. Up a preliminary toxicology results released Friday showed no signs of drugs or alcohol in the bodies of musician Stevie Ray Vaughan and four other men killed in a helicopter crash a Coroner said. The grammy award winning guitarist Pilot Jeff Brown of East Chicago ind. And three members of Eric Clapton a entourage were killed in the Accident monday following a performance at the Alpine Valley music theater. A your preliminary indications right now indicate no drugs or alcohol a Walworth county Coroner John Griebel said. He said final toxicology test results would be released later by the Federal aviation administration. The National transportation safety Board has said the helicopter slammed into the Side of a ski Hill at the Alpine Valley resort. Officials said fog played a role in the crash. Vaughan boarded the helicopter after performing at a concert along with his brother Jimmie Clapton and blues guitarist Robert Cray. Funeral services for Vaughan 35, were held Friday in Dallas. Besides Vaughan and Brown those killed in the crash were Bobby Brooks 34, Clapton a booking agent Nigel Brown Clapton a bodyguard and Colin smythe one of Clapton tour managers. Victim of Drift net a Vii Iii i unit net i Cliver ?.a Dolphin civic Ocean during a july expedition by says at least 30 species of dolphins found drowned in a Drift net in the a the environmental group. The group Birds and fish were found dead in nets.4 charged with adultery under archaic Conn. Law Hartford Conn. A its Puril a a a a Connecticut has Redis covered a relic from its Puritan past police this summer have charged four people with adultery. In a state known for progressive Laws on abortion rights education and the environment use of the rarely enforced state adultery Law is raising eyebrows. Under the Law a married person commits adultery by having sexual Intercourse with someone other than his or her spouse. Single people cannot be charged. Conviction on the Misdemeanour charge carries up to a year in prison and a $ 1,000 Fine. Connecticut authorities say they have no Choice but to enforce the Law. Before this year just two people were charged with adultery since 1985. The latest Cluster of arrests a is basically just a coincidence a said chief states attorney John j. Kelly. A people have to realize that we do have a Law on the  adultery As a criminal offence in America dates from the arrival of the puritans in Massachusetts in the 17th Century. Twenty seven states still have adultery Laws on the books a Survey by the Harvard Law review found but Legal scholars say few states make much Effort to enforce them. For example in new York where adultery is a mis Demeanour the last recorded prosecution was in 1944. The first Connecticut arrest this year occurred in Norwich on june 1, when a Man locked in a divorce Battle claimed he witnessed his wife through a window of a House having sex with another Man police said. On tuesday police in Eart Lyme arrested a Man and a woman both married but not to each other after receiving a complaint from the Many a wife. Police in new London made another arrest tuesday when they broke up a Domestic squabble Over a woman a alleged infidelity and arrested the woman after die admitted having an affair