European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 11, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes i . Monday january 11,1993 by the new York times. Oak Ridge Terin. A a leak of radioactive material has contaminated workers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and officials asked Friday that the families of some of the workers be tested for radiation exposure. By the time it was detected dec 29, the leak had contaminated 19 of the 28 workers who were checked the officials said. Nine of those contaminated had left the Laboratory without knowing they had been exposed the officials said. Teams of technicians dispatched from the Laboratory to track the contamination found radioactive cerium in the Homes of three workers. The radiation specialists worked through the night of dec. 29 and into the next Day testing several Public places. They confiscated some of the workers clothing out a Laboratory official said the Public had received a minimal  Jerry Swanks director of environmental safety and health compliance at the Laboratory said that two babies had been tested last week for exposure but that no radioactivity was found. Swanks said tests showed the contamination was within the allowable annual exposure for workers aides to representative John d. Dingell the Michigan Democrat who is chairman of the House Energy and Commerce committee said he would hold a hearing on the leak. Questions will be asked about How it occurred Why it was not detected sooner and How the workers were Able to spread the contamination outside the Laboratory the aides said. The Energy department and the contractors said they also were investigating. Most of the workers were employees of Tomahawk construction one of two subcontractors employed on the site by . Ferguson a construction contractor working for the Energy department. They were working on equipment that will be used to Monitor the Transfer or Low level radioactive wastes. The National Laboratory is one of three nuclear development centers Here. The leak occurred in a part of the Complex that performs civilian research and was unrelated to the Laboratory in which nuclear weapons Are made. The problem was discovered late dec. 29, when a worker reported that something was leaking from a 3-Inch pipe that was supposed to be empty. A health physicist identified the liquid As radioactive. Most of the workers were still at the site at the time. _ a your intent Here is to make sure that no contamination was spread to any member of the Public a a Swanks said. A we feel confident that based on our evaluations of the Homes and the Lack of contamination found there that there will be minimal exposure to people at the business places a contaminated areas were found in the Homes of three of the nine workers who Eft the site Swanks said and those areas were cleaned. No contamination was found in the Homes of the remaining six. Swanks refused to be specific about the Public places where the workers said they had stopped on the Way Home but he said most were in West Knoxville about 20 Miles East of Here. Among the Sites examined he said were an automatic Teller machine and a building Supply  it is not our policy to release the names of individuals who Are contaminated or in this Case the businesses themselves Quot Swanks said. A we will assure the business operators themselves that their places Are free of  a crazy Eddie founder to return from Israel to Newark . A Eddie Antar founder of the crazy Eddie electronics store Chain was scheduled to be returned sunday from Israel to face trial on Federal fraud charges. . Marshal Arthur Borinsky said Antar would be processed sunday after arriving in Newark and would be arraigned today. Officials charge that Antar two of his Brothers and a Cousin cheated stockholders in crazy Eddie inc. Out of More than $70 million by creating a phony inventory Antar and phony sales to pump up the value of the company a Stock. The four were indicted last june on charges including securities fraud mail fraud and conspiracy to com Mit securities fraud. Prosecutors added racketeering charges to the indictment in August. Antar 44, vanished in 1990 after taking millions of dollars looted from his stores prosecutors said. He lived under an assumed name in Israel until police there arrested him in june. Antar who built what was the new York areas larg Cost electronics Chain made himself a household name in the Region through High Decibel television commercials touting a  a prices. But the 43-store Chain entered bankruptcy proceedings in 1987 at a Cost of up to $200 million to investors. The . Securities and Exchange commission in july 1990 obtained a civil judgment against Antar for $73 million. With interest the judgment now exceeds $80 million according to Antares new Jersey attorney Jack Arsenault. Arsenault has said he made a Deal with the govern ment under which Antar would nor be prosecuted for fleeing the country journalist group Boycotts Colorado Miami Beach Fla. Apr hispanic journalists voted saturday to move their annual convention from Colorado because of the states new ban on civil rights protections for homosexuals. The National association of hispanic journalists Board voted 13-3 to cancel its Denver convention scheduled for March making it the latest to join a Boycott of Colorado to protest the nov. 3 passage of amendment 2, the Board also said it  return to Colorado until the Law was repealed or nullified. A i Hope some will respect our decision because of How emotional and difficult it was Quot said Diane Alve Rio president of the 1,400-member group and employee at Wasu to in Hartford Conn. A a it a divided the organization quite a  Ernest Gurule vice president and a reporter for Kwan to in Denver voted against the move. A my position As a journalist is you fight hate with knowledge a Gurule said. Nahje a plans to hold the conference in Colorado set off a dispute with the National lesbian and Gay journalists association which voted last week to Boycott the event unless the convention was moved. The Gay journalists association issued a statement saturday praising the action and vowed to help the hispanic group with the move and to recover any losses. A we understand the difficulty and we Are gratified by this decision a said Leroy Aarons president of the Gay journalists group. A we think its a Victory for a free press and for minority journalists  amendment 2 bars the passage of any Law that would provide specific civil rights protections based on sexual orientation. It annuls ordinances passed in Aspen Boulder and Denver that extended such protections. A among the groups that have cancelled conventions to Honor the Boycott Are the . Conference of mayors the american association of Law libraries and the National organization for women los Angeles Atlanta Chicago Seattle and Boston have prohibited official travel to Colorado and the spending of Public funds in the state. So far Denver has lost an estimated $15 million in convention business. The hispanic group had said it would have to forfeit $70,000 under its contract with a Denver hotel if it moved the three Day convention. Wheelchair bound prisoner set to be executed Jon. 19 a a a a. A a. A from wire reports Richmond a. A gov. L. Douglas Wilder set a Jan. 19 execution Date saturday for death Row inmate Charles Sylvester Stamper who suffers from a spinal Cord tit jury received in prison. Wilder had granted a temporary stay of execution in october to review a plea from stampers attorneys. They had asked the governor to commute the death sentence saying their client was no longer a threat to society. Stamper has been using a wheelchair since 1988, when he was injured in a death Row fight with other convicts. I ,. Stamper who has been on death Row longer than any other person in Virginia was convicted of murdering three people in a 1978 restaurant robbery in suburban Richmond. A the Washington based National coalition to abolish the death penalty claims Stamper would be the first wheelchair bound prisoner executed in the country since the Early part of the Century. But Stamper 39, said recently that if he is executed he would walk to the electric chair. A i wont make them carry me a he said. A i have. Some braces that i use that attach to shoes for exercise  Wilder spokesman Glenn Davidson said saturday that Wilder had fully reviewed stampers Case but did not say Why Wilder refused clemency. Priest 73, pleads guilty Brainerd Minn. A a Catholic priest who pleaded guilty to sexually molesting two teen agers will Likely never serve time in jail. The Rev. Victor Chateauvert 73, entered his plea thursday and was freed on his own recognizance. While no Date was set for sentencing under a tentative agreement he would be placed on probation without serving any time in prison. Chateauvert had been the Parish priest at holy family Catholic Church in the Central Minnesota Community of Bull dog Lake until recently. He was arrested dec. 28. He was accused of abusing a 14-year-old boy and a 19-year-old Man Over a three year period., the priest pleaded guilty to single counts of second and fourth degree criminal sexual conduct in Crow Wing county District court. Medical Milestone noted Stanford Calif. A last week marked the 25th anniversary of the first heart transplanted into a human in the United states. Since famed surgeon or. Norman Shumway performed the pioneering surgery Jan. 6,1968, at Stanford University Hospital More than 750 patients have undergone the operation there. The current one year survival rate is an impressive 82 percent compared with 20 percent two decades ago. Of Stanford patients who survive one year 85 percent Are a completely rehabilitated a meaning they can return to their regular lifestyle according to studies. Stanford also was the site of the worlds first heart lung transplant performed in 1981. The first human heart was transplanted dec. 3, 1967, by or. Christiaan Barnard in South Africa. Since then More than 5,000 such procedures have been performed worldwide. More than 100 . Institutions have Active transplant programs. The biggest detriment is the Lack of available donor hearts Escapee used garbage bag Angola la. A an Escapee from the Louisiana state Penitentiary who was killed after ignoring warnings to surrender had escaped from the prisons Hospital Complex in a garbage bag the Warden says. Tyrone Brown 29, was fatally shot by authorities Jan. 2 after he ignored orders to surrender in Woods on the prison grounds Warden John Whitley said thursday. Whitley said Brown escaped a Day earlier by getting another inmate to put him in a garbage bag and Load him on a flatbed truck used to haul garbage to the prison s incinerator about a mile inside the fences. Another inmate faces disciplinary action in Browne a escape. A from there All we can assume is that he went to the incinerator where the bags were unloaded and waited until he got his Chance and took off a Whitely said. Brown had apparently tried to steal a car. Brown who was serving a 25-year armed robbery sentence from Jefferson Parish would have been eligible for parole in 1994