European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 8, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday april8, 1992 the stars and stripes Page 5scientists urge Dod to Stop animal tests from wire reports Washington a former military researchers called monday for a halt to experiments on a half million cats monkeys and other animals each year deriding As a a useless much of the scientific work that kills some of the creatures and costs taxpayers More than $100 million. Doctors and researchers appearing at a news conference sponsored by the animal Protection group in defense of animals said the data collected from a variety of experiments on Kittens primates Birds and bears cannot be used to help humanity. Or. Elliot Katz Ida president accused the military of a Gross negligence and Gross irresponsibility that has a covered up enormous amounts of waste and suffer _ it my. A we Are calling for a moratorium on funding and the use of animals by the military a he said. The news conference came a Day before the research and development subcommittee of the House armed services committee was to Convene hearings reviewing defense department animal research. At the hearings the Ida and former military researchers will Call for a moratorium on ballistics radiation chemical and biological warfare and other lethal experiments on an estimated 500,000 animals a year in the nations 58 military research laboratories. The Ida said the Cost to taxpayers is a Well Over $100 million a year. At the defense department spokeswoman Jan Walker said the department would Reserve comment on the allegations until after tuesdays hearing. She said the departments director of environmental and life sciences Joseph Osterman would testify on the subject of animal experimentation. The Ida showed film footage depicting some experiments a Bear used to test a cockpit ejection seat of a military Jet Birds shot into windshields by a contraption called a a Chicken gun a pig burned to a Crisp to test How Burns affect thirst. The Ida and its assembled experts question what such experiments accomplish. Former military psychologist Donald Barnes spent 16 years conducting experiments on monkeys to determine the effect of radiation on pilots. At the time he considered such work a a moral  today he a Allsot useless. A it was All in vain a Barnes said. A a Monkey is not a Little furry human being. You cannot extrapolate. They Are simply not predictable to human  As or. Eric Dunayer said a How can you practice rat Medicine Monkey Medicine dog Medicine on humans a asked Why he spent so Long doing the research Barnes said he suffered from a conditioned ethical  or. Murry Cohen seeking to modernize medical research said the military has the Burden to prove its experiments Are valid. A cats Are being shot to find if people Stop breathing when they receive head injuries. They do. That was determined 100 years ago a Cohen said Dep Oring what he called a a wastefulness and the poor qua Ity of military research. Dunayer a veterinarian said postmortem studies reveal ailing animals have been used in experiments and he questioned the Validity of data gleaned from such science. ? the animal protectionists said the research like bureaucracy gains a momentum All its own. John Bachman a former animal researcher said monkeys were raised at an air Force base where he pc with them a he said. Worked. A if you Breed them you have to do something Katz said that the militant submits a budget each year for such research and that if personnel done to use Money allocated in a fiscal year they May lose it. In the stars and stripes 10 years ago april 8,1982 a president Reagan ordered Secretary of state Alexander m. Haig or. To Fly to London and Buenos Aires in an attempt to reach a peaceful settlement of the crisis Between Britain and Argentina Over the Falkland islands the White House announced. 20 years ago april 8,1972 a defense Secretary Melvin r. Laird warned that the United states would continue bombing North vietnamese forces until they withdrew from South Vietnam. Also South vietnamese troops abandoned Loc Ninh a key City giving communist forces a Clear run to Saigon. 30 years ago _ april 8,1962 a president Kennedy invoked the Taft Hartley Law signing an executive order creating a Board of inquiry on the three week West coast shipping strike. 40 years ago april 8,1952 a slamming Sammy Snead won his second masters Golf title with the highest score in the tournaments history 286. Opponent Ben Hogan pulled to a tie in the tournaments third round but High winds in the fined round gave All the players trouble and Snead spar 72 was enough to Clinch the title. World war50 years ag6 today 8 april1 a 9 4 a 2 american and philippine resistance collapses on the Bataan Peninsula and the order is Given to destroy All military equipment before surrendering All of Luzon Only 2,000 of 78,000 soldiers can be evacuated to Corregidor. In Europe German and italian bombers strike Malta in the worst bombing the tiny British outpost in the Mediterranean will undergo during the War. Circe 2194 Days of War. W. H. Smith a blisters inc. World almanac Book of world far ii Bison books corp1981 space shuttle endeavour awakes As Nasa tests its main engines Cape canaveral Fla. A Nasa fired the engines of the new space shuttle endeavour for 22 seconds monday in preparation of the ships Maiden voyage in Early May. The three main engines roared to life one by one just tenths of a second apart. Endeavour rocked slightly As expected on the launch pad As thick White steam billowed from the engine nozzles. Just As quickly the engines were shut Down about a second apart. Endeavour remained bolted to the pad throughout the test which is required of All new orbiters. The twin solid rocket boosters were not ignited. Shuttle director Leonard Nicholson said the test appeared to go Well although engineers still needed to Analyse the test results. The engines will be inspected Over the coming weeks. A every indication we have is that things went just As we would have liked them to a Nicholson said. A we think we re on track for launching this vehicle Early next  Nasa is aiming for a May 7 liftoff. During the test Mission commander Daniel Brandenstein and the six other astronauts assigned to endeavours first flight a sat elite Rescue Mission watched from the launch control Center. No one was aboard endeavour. Brandenstein said the test was a the last major Milestone before launch. A from our perspective in looking at a thoroughbred vehicle like that its a Little bit of an unnatural act keeping it tied Down and making those engines run a Brandenstein said. A but we believe very strongly that its an essential part of getting a vehicle  steam Billows from endeavours engines during testing at the Kennedy space Center. The engine firing was delayed briefly late monday morning because of a blown fuse on the launch platform. Endeavours external fuel tank was filled with More than a half million Gallons of liquid Hydrogen and oxygen. No significant leakage was reported during fueling. It is the seventh time in the 11-year shuttle program that Nasa has conducted a flight readiness firing. During the seven Day flight spacewalk ing astronauts will attach a 23,000-Pound motor to a communications satellite that has been stranded in a uselessly Low orbit for two years. The motor is designed to boost the satellite to its proper position 22,300 Miles High. Endeavour the $2 billion replacement for challenger is named after the ship commanded by 18th-Century British explorer James Cook hence the English spelling of the name. Munching armadillos on March expert warns new Orleans a they be been around since the Days of the Dinosaur and might Well be Here after Man is gone. What a More they re advancing rapidly North from Mexico. No they re not killer bees but at least one zoologist thinks armadillos ultimately May be More trouble. A a in a sure they Are going to be a real problem As they interrupt the food Chain a said Rick Atkinson curator of the swamp exhibit at new Orleans Audubon zoo. A they scour the Forest where they go. They eat everything on the ground plants insects lizards a any thing they can reach. A the truth is i never found anything they  eat except potato  the environmental effect of armadillos Isnit Clear and Atkinson said no research has been done on the topic. The pea or nine banded armadillo a the Only one of 11 species to be found in the United states a probably made its Way up from Mexico spreading at maybe 100 Miles a year Atkinson said. It spread East from Texas after world War ii. The armadillos now reach Missouri in the West and the North Carolina South Carolina line in the East. They abound in Louisiana Texas Mississippi and Florida. The shy primarily nocturnal animals with tiny Neads and curved Shell covered bodies Are burrowing mammals with Sharp toenails capable of digging with amazing Speed. The hard Shell makes armadillos susceptible to very Little a except automobiles a when grown. With their very Low heart rate and metabolism they can survive Long periods in almost airless Burrows. A they can swim some but evidently when they come to water they prefer to just walk along the Bottom Atkinson said. A a that a supposed to be How they crossed the Mississippi River when they came