European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 18, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 b the stars and stripes saturday May 18 1991watery Relief firefighter James Hardy ducks into the Spray from a fire Hose at the scene of an apartment fire thursday near the Doston Brookline mass., line. Several firefighters were overcome by smoke and suffered heat exhaustion. Bush planning More travel a Washington a president Bush a health is a progressing quite Well and he is stepping up his travel plans but he has not yet resumed his exercise routine his spokesman said thursday. A Day after describing the president As suffering uncharacteristic fatigue from his thyroid disorder press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater said Bush next week will take trips to Minnesota and Boston before beginning a four Day Holiday at his vacation Home in Ken chunk port Maine. From Kennebunkport Bush plan to Fly to Colorado Springs colo., on May 29 to speak at the air Force Academy a  the doctors examination leads them to feel he is progressing quite Well that the Medicine is. Having its intended affect a Fitzwater told reporters in reference to the medication Bush is taking to destroy an overactive thyroid gland. Quot the president is feeling better As he said yesterday has More Energy and so the regime of medications seems to be right on  Bush told reporters on wednesday that he had been very tired but Felt better that Day than he had since the thyroid problem began. Bush also is taking drugs to Correct an irregular heartbeat that stemmed from the thyroid disorder. He is taking iodine drops to destroy the thyroid. The thyroid condition is related to Graves disease an immune system disorder also suffered by Bush a wife Barbara. Once the thyroid is destroyed he will take drugs to replace the thyroid hormone.3 aids deaths attributed to Organ donor Atlanta apr. Aids has killed three patients who received heart and kidney transplants from an infected Man and health officials Are tracking More than 50 other recipients. / v at least one other person who received a Bone graft from the Man has tested positive for the aids virus the Atlanta journal Constitution reported Friday. The Federal centers for disease control and the food and drug administration Are helping to track 53 other people who received transplants from the Man said or. Scott Holmburg an epidemiologist with the Atlanta based cd. Life net transplantation services the network that supplied the tissues has begun contacting hospitals to track the other recipients. The organs and tissues were reportedly distributed to 30 hospitals across the United states. Officials would not identify the hospitals or the states in which the transplants took place. The donor a 22-year-old Virginia Man was shot to death in a robbery in 1985. It Wasny to immediately dear if he was the victim or assailant. He tested negative for his a the human immunodeficiency virus that causes aids a twice before his organs were removed. But officials believe he May have been infected so soon before he died that his body did no to Register any signs of exposure. Most of the body parts were treated with alcohol or radiation and Aren t believed to be infectious the newspaper said. But it said eight transplants of Bone soft tissues and a pancreas were not processed in ways Likely to kill the virus and May be infectious. Holmburg said tissues and organs like blood Are tested for aids before transplantation. But tests will detect exposure to aids Only after the immune system has had time to produce antibodies to the virus. According to a memorandum written by James Benson Deputy Fra commissioner the recipient of the Many a heart and the two people who each got one of his kidneys a developed his infection and eventually died. The newspaper said the Bone graft recipient who tested positive for the virus is an elderly Colorado woman who received one of the Many a  knew a site danger study says Washington up . Officials in the late 1940s picked a Nevada site for nuclear bomb testing knowing that prevailing Westerly winds would strew radioactive fallout Over much of nation according to a recent study. The study based primarily on government documents said thursday the atmospheric tests at the Nevada test site in the Early 1950s not Only contaminated communities immediately downwind but also resulted in isolated a hot spots As far away As Albany . And Boston. After the health threat became Clear the government switched to underground testing at the Nevada site but the study said radioactive releases continued due to unexpected venting to the surface and. A a operational a or intentional a discharges. A. The study released by a group called International physicians for the prevention of nuclear War also released documents indicating . Officials knowingly allowed residents of a tiny Pacific Island to be exposed to High radioactive contamination from bomb testing. The documents show that after the a a bravos nuclear test contaminated the Island of Rong Lap in 1954, residents were allowed to return Home in 1957 by . Officials who noted the situation represented a unique Opportunity to study the human health effects of radiation. While Many government officials have raised concerns the . Government still maintains Rong Lap is Safe said the study which was conducted by the Institute for Energy and environmental re search a scientific Quot think tank in Tako fallout trails in the �?T50s a Park my. The study emphasized the United states is not the worst offender among the nuclear Powers and that in contrast to secrecy in other countries the ., government had released the most data about its nuclear weapons program. The study also calculated the health Impact of the 518 atmospheric tests conducted to Date by the worlds five nuclear Powers the United states soviet Union France great Britain and China. Using government estimates of fallout releases and the latest radiation health effect analyses by the National Academy a amps Susan hams of sciences the study said atmospheric testing would cause 430,000 cancer deaths worldwide through 2000, with the greatest risks in the Northern hemisphere. When Long lived radioactive Carbon-14 particles were included in fatality calculations the study predicted an ultimate global toll of 2.4 million cancer deaths. Citing 1948 Pentagon planning documents the study said . Military officials were aware of the fallout dangers when they began looking for a site in the United states for nuclear testing. The documents show the Pentagon considered a site along the North Carolina coast Between Cape Hatteras and Cape fear on the grounds that Strong Westerly winds in the area and the nearby Gulf Stream would transport fallout far out to sea. V the Northeast was considered unacceptable because of its Rich fishing grounds and near Shore currents the documents show. The study citing a 1950 atomic Energy commission document said officials set tied on the Nevada site because it already was owned by the government and was near the main . Nuclear weapons Laboratory at los Alamos n.m., and thus would help Speed weapons development. In a vague reference to radiation hazards the memo by dec chairman Gordon Dean to Pentagon officials said a convenient location near los Alamos was a obviously a characteristic of such desirability that it could outweigh partial deficiencies in other  officials at los Alamos concluded health hazards from the Nevada test site would be minimal because radioactive particles would largely dissipate within six to 12 hours after release. The study said atmospheric testing re suited in contamination of Many Utah communities directly downwind of the Nevada site but that government concerns were heightened when a hot spots began turning up around the country. In the most publicized incident High contamination Levels were detected in Albany ., after a severe thunderstorm rained out radioactive particles released from a series of atmospheric tests in 1953