European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 29, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday july 29, 1991 the stars and stripes b Page 3sculptor shapes nuclear debate his list shows cancer victims near atomic lab los Alamos . A a soft spoken sculptor has unsettled this onetime Haven for nuclear weapons research by compiling a lengthy list of residents and former residents he believes fell victim to brain tutors. Tyler Mercier has been besieged by interview requests and berated by critics since he went Public in May. There have been Calls from scientists universities and tipsters purporting to know about unreported accidents at los Alamos National Laboratory he said. Mercier gingerly opened a mysterious cardboard Box that arrived on his Doorstep recently to find a plastic quart bottle of potassium Mineral supplement that the sender assured him was a cure for cancer. C a a in a just astonished a Mercier said of the uproar. For 11 months the grandson of a nuclear safety Engineer at the lab where the first atomic bomb was produced has collected names of people who possibly fell victim to brain tutors. After his disclosures the department of Energy which funds the lab agreed to finance a study to determine what if anything is going on. As publicity has snowballed Merciers unofficial list has grown from a dozen people to More than 50. Most Are dead. His phone rings almost constantly in his modest rented Home in a Complex built 40 years ago for lab workers. His daily routine a sculpting in the Early morning and then caring for his 14-month-old son while his wife works at the lab As a computer specialist has been disrupted. Tyler Mercier holds a radiation detection device used in his los Alamos investigation. Mercier who has a degree in engineering stumbled onto the tumor Issue while doing his own investigation of radiation Levels in los Alamos a Mountain Community of 18,000 about 30 Miles Northwest of Santa be. Mercier said he was startled when he got radiation readings around town higher than those historically reported by the lab. Last August he was handed a list of boyhood. As he made inquiries the list several brain tumor victims in one neigh quiries the Tisl grew. Mercier speculated that radioactive waste or emissions from the lab could be related to the brain tutors. He gave a dozen names to the lab in october. Disappointed by what he considered the labs unresponsiveness Mercier spoke publicly about the list at an Energy department hearing in May. Mercier said he undertook the monitoring project to reassure residents of their safety after they expressed concern at a Public meeting. A live always assumed the lab had adequate safety precautions and it was a matter of educating oneself and the Public to understand them a he said. John Puckett head of the labs health safety and environment division recently called the list a anecdotal  Mercier said the lab is trying to pressure him to be quiet. A doctor has checked the first 23 names on Marcie re a list against medical records and determined that nine of the people died of primary brain tutors a tutors that began in the brain. Most of the others had brain tutors from cancers that began elsewhere in the body. The rest of the list will also be checked against medical records. A federally funded data collection Center said 19 los Alamos residents were diagnosed with primary brain tutors Over the past 20 years. Mercier said his list is longer because it includes former residents who were diagnosed elsewhere. Mercier said the planned study May determine that the brain tutors ithd1 other cancers can be explained by other factors such As the nature of the population. That could encourage los Alamos residents to be More vigilant about their health Mercier said. A i Hope we see the Community being much More attentive to cancer. And see higher rates of Early detection Quot he said. Dole urges Bush to act on Mia Issue Washington a Senate Republican Leader Robert Dole urged president Bush on sunday to appoint a presidential commission to investigate whether americans missing from the Vietnam War Are still alive in Southeast appearing on Abc tvs Meef the press the Kansas senator was asked about a statement Friday by the National Security adviser Brent scowcroft that he is convinced no americans missing from the Vietnam conflict Are still living. A i done to know and i done to think Brent scowcroft knows a Dole said. A i think what we should do and what i would like to see happen this week is for the president to say a in a going to have a presidential commission. We Are going to take another  a a let a raise this to the highest level to see if we can to address it. That might in effect help Dole some of the families who Are  in addition Dole said a we might be Able to Weed out some of these people who i think have got something pretty Good going Here. They indicate to families that they can find their sons or husbands. A lot of Money is being  when asked if he was uncomfortable with the Way the Pentagon and the administration had handled the Issue Dole said a i done to think we know precisely. I think if they would make everything Public we might understand their position. I can to believe there Are americans who would turn their Back on other  sen. Robert c. Smith r-n.h., already has called for a Senate investigation of whether americans Are still held prisoner in Southeast Asia. His proposal has attracted 41 co sponsors two thirds of them republicans. Scowcroft a comments at a White House briefing were in response to questions raised about a newly released photograph that some family members claim shows three american officers listed As missing or otherwise unaccounted for from the conflict in Southeast Asia. Another photo said to show a special forces Captain lost in 1971, was released last week by a retired air Force Pilot Active in the search for missing veterans. The Pentagon said thursday that the photo of the three men had passed through the hands of a a bring of Cambodia opportunists led by a Well known and admitted fabricators of information about missing americans. Scowcroft asked if he believed some missing americans Are still alive said a no 1 do  Ann Mills Griffiths executive director of the National league of pow Mia families said saturday that scowcroft a View should not be a misconstrued As reversing the policy of two presidents which is that information available precludes ruling out the possibility that americans Are still  Griffiths said this position was most recently spelled out by Bush in a july 10 letter to the league which said in part a if any americas Are still being held captive decisive action will be taken to return them  v x t p a / flipping out Chip Milner of Salt Lake City is headed for a Cool splash a on a bicycle a in the training Pool for the Usa freestyle skiing team at Lake Placid . Milner and his teammates performed jumps and tricks at a fund Raiser for the group saturday