European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 21, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Ion is available to read. But the samples Wilt not be screened until the information is required for identification Weedn said. We Don t have any reason to screen the samples unless a person is dead and unidentified we can said. So we Don t touch the Sample until needed. We can  screen the samples for Legal reasons unless ordered by a court to do so. Our program and technicians Are not capable of More than identification. We use a Type of nonsense Dan for identification that does t Tell us anything other than who this person  Maltby is wary. In 1987,.he served on a congressional technology assessment research team investigating the use of genetic testing in the workplace. At the time Only a handful of companies were using genetic samples from employees but that number is growing. Maltby Points to the possibility of another Agency gaining Access to military samples. It seems that one Agency can t say no to another he said. As anyone who has Ever looked at government information practices will Tell you the government does t have a very Good track record of protecting individual  Weedn disagrees. We re not going to make the samples accessible and if someone does gain Access they will still have to test and read the samples he said. That information in t readily available from the simple drop of blood. It has to be put through the screening pro  stacking up the Dan records the government is gaining samples at a rate of 13,000 each month Stavinoha said. The Effort to Sample the whole military population is gaining momentum and that worries Maltby who said the Mili tary should reconsider its goals. Why do we have to Sample the whole Popula Tion he said. That gives someone who would mis use the samples a huge data base. Would t it make More sense to Sample those troops bound for Poten tial combat areas before they leave the result would be Only about 5 percent of the military population with Dan samples on file not the whole Mil itary. That s a smaller data base that information can be taken  the Best solution to the problem May lie in the individual Maltby said. If we re trying to protect the identity of some poor kid who s going off to Iraq and could get blown to pieces in the desert should t it be his Choice if he wants that information readily available Maltby said. If his loved ones Don t mind if he does t have the sampling done if they Are willing to take the Chance that they May never know what happened to hint that should be his Choice. But the military does t work that Way. It s All or nothing with the  for now the military is going ahead slowly with its plans. The Acle has t registered any complaints or started Legal action to Stop the process. Weedn sees a time when the United states will never again have an unknown Soldier s Tomb. Maltby worries that one Day someone in the United states will know everything about the people in the military. It s unfortunate that we can t take the Steps to prevent damage now the Acle official said. But that s the Way things work. Very often the Best intentions go wrong. I Hope this one does  Mccain s View is that concern about the possible misuse of inc technology is necessary but that should t prevent the military from going ahead with its plans. The military is a different animal than most of society cd Ley the senator s spokesman said. Most rules of society go out the window when it comes to protecting the fighting Force. What extent will we go to prevent the agony of Vietnam dam opens the Way for the known Soldier of tar the persian Gulf War ended the iraqi government returned two pounds of human tissue to the american Mili tary. To Lic americans were told it was the remains of one of their downed pilots. Using hair clippings from a razor belonging to the Pilot and his his blood Sample taken by the military months before the War doctors at the armed forces Institute of pathology in Washington d.c., pulled the genetic blueprint of the missing Pilot from his Dan file and compared the tissue samples. It was t the american Pilot. They believe the remains were from an iraqi Soldier killed in the War. Traditional identification methods would t have worked in the Case of the Pilot said maj. Or Vic Tor we can director of the Alfip Dan program. When the traditional methods arc exhausted. Dan is used to help identify people. According to we can Dan is not the next do tag. Dog Taswill still be main sources of information about people when the Dan program is in full swing. Backing that up will be dental a rays. Weedn said the need for an alternative to dental a rays is growing As Den Tal care improves. Fewer people have distinguishing dental work or abnormalities to track them by. Visual identification by friends or family members is also used. However visual identification is notoriously flawed and unreliable we can said. The final traditional method of identification is fingerprints still regarded As accurate. Weedn said Dan comes into play when there arc no fingerprints to draw from of when the other methods arc unusable such As in the Case of the sup posed american Pilot. Dan and genetic techniques of identification arc also used to reassemble dead military people. When a Shell rips apart a tank the people inside arc also ripped apart and Dan can help place limbs with. Bodies accurately we can said. We can noted that use of Dan has other benefits " including Cost savings convenience and accuracy. For example the widespread use of Dan Sam pling will eventually eliminate duplicate dental x rays maintained on each person by the military for identification purposes. Collection kits according to an Alfip spokesman Cost approximately $3 each and the Dan repository will Cost nearly $500,000 annually including staff to run. With the savings generated by eliminating the dental a Ray and the potential savings from reduced Legal costs As a result of misidentification the Alfip people believe Dan will be a Cost Cutter. I think we re going to be Able to ensure that no one will Ever have to suf Fer through the agony of not knowing if a body is a loved one we can said. If we can do that Well never have an unknown Soldier  Mark Kinkade seven years in prison for rape then saved by Dan by Ben Dobbin the associated press the victim said she was positive he was therapist. The jury took one hour to  the judge put Lennie Callace away for 25 to 50  six years later the 38-year-old father of four is Back Home in a crumbling Brooklyn neighbourhood called the Hole finally getting even with his anger. What convinced the criminal Justice system they had the wrong Man was Dan analysis hailed As the most powerful forensic tool since fingerprinting. It first was submitted As evidence in a . Court room in october 1987, eight months after Callace As he said went to trial for Justice and found there was no  thousands of police investigations have either been dropped or resolved on the basis of genetic identification. And now Dan is being put to a More dramatic use to overturn wrongful convictions. In the last two years in cases where blood semen tissue saliva or Bone marrow from the crime scene has been preserved it has become the final arbiter in setting free at least a dozen men imprisoned around the country for rape. I m glad for that stuff said Callace whose indictment was dismissed oct. 19. It s going to save the tax Cople s Money and save a lot of  Freedom has t been so easy for him to grasp. Callace can hardly Bear to dwell on How Lennie jr., is Frank 10, Sal 8, and Elizabeth 7, have grown up without their father. How his Girlfriend did the Bird on  deciding she could t wait for a parole hearing in october 2006. And How his Mother Delores grieved Over her favorite son until her death from cancer in 1990. He was t permitted to attend her funeral. That was my heart my Mother and i could t be there for her Callace said struggling not to cry. She s resting now. She knows i m Home. I m just glad it s Over with but i be got a lot of hate frustration. I m not right i snap. Last night i had to go for a walk 2 o clock for a walk Callace a sometime cabdriver construction worker and Petty thief was picked up in july 1986 and charged with sexually assaulting and sodomizing an 18-year-old nursing Home aide at knife Point in the parking lot of a shopping Center in Selden on Long Island in january 1985. Callace s parents had moved to Long Island in 1973, and their son often visited. So when he missed a court appearance for stealing hubcaps detectives on Long Island were asked to help locate him. Instead after noting his description the detectives snatched Callace at gunpoint outside a Corner store in july 1986. The woman picked him out of a lineup As the Man who raped her. Kight can months earlier she had described the rapist As 5-foot-10 or taller with Reddish Blond afro continued on Page 6 february 21. 1993 sunday pages