European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 17, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday May 17,1993 . The stars and stripes Page 5 military pollution said to plague 11,000 Sites Groton mass. A " the cold War May Beaver but the poisons that Are a byproduct of the nation s military machine remain a threat to health an the environment a doctors group said saturday. More than 11,000 Sites at More than 900 department of defense and department of Energy facilities Are contaminated either with radioactive materials of chemicals according to a report by the physicians for social responsibility. Military pollution at both Dod and Doe facilities will remain one of the nation s most critical problems for years to come said the report by the physicians group which has been Active on both peace and environmental  the end of the cold War threats to . National Security from outside its Borders have sharply de creased. But the toxic threat to the health and the environment of the american people posed by its own military Complex is dangerously High the report said. It. Col Dave Garner a defense department spokesman said saturday the Agency could t comment until it reviews the study. An Energy department spokesman did t return a Telephone , a High level defense department official told a congressional subcommittee that the administration recognizes that the Post cold War Era requires a new approach to solving Dod s environmental  Sherri Wasserman Goodman a Deputy undersecretary of defense said environmental concerns were being Given More emphasis under defense Secretary Les Aspin and president Clinton. Our National Security can and must include Protection of the Environ ment she said. The pollution comes from the production testing cleaning and use of weapons explosives and rocket fuels vehicles aircraft and electronic equipment the group said it you have a military base in or near your Community you most Likely have a toxic waste problem  the nation should have this As a priority be cause it is everywhere Peter pvt Yler associate director of policy at the doctors group said  report criticized the defense department s cleanup efforts so far and questioned its estimates that the work would Cost $25 billion. The real Cost of purging military Sites could be closer to $100 billion it said despite announcements by the present administration that military cleanup efforts will receive a High priority Federal budget pressures May slow spending m future years the report  50 states had some contamination most from de sense department Sites such As military bases and air Fields. Fourteen major Energy department facilities and dozens of smaller and no longer used facilities in24 states were contaminated by nuclear weapons re search production and testing the report said., it said Little real cleanup had been done at the Sites and that neither Doe nor anyone else has an accurate picture of the full scale of the  the report cited a general accounting office Esti mate that the cleanup of Energy department facilities could Cost at least $150 billion Over the next 30 years. In the stars and stripes 10 years ago May 17,1983 the israeli and lebanese parliaments approved the .-mediated troop withdrawal agreement Lebanon s lawmakers unanimously endorsing the Accord despite syrian objections. 20 years ago May 17,1973 a White House aide insisted that fired counsel John Dean Iii bears sole responsibility for a Post watergate investigation on president Nixon s behalf which the aide described As inadequate. 30 years ago May 17,1963 r astronaut Gor Don Cooper using emergency procedures to get out of space splashed Down in the Pacific near Midway Island in a breathtaking Fin ish to his 22.9-orbit voyage around the Earth. 40 years ago May 17,1953 associated press correspondent William n. Oatis emerged from imprisonment in communist Czechoslovakia receiving a hero s Welcome upon arriving in Niernberg West Germany. He had been held two years As an alleged spy. 50 years ago May 17,1943 a nervous Gloo my Italy rushed preparations for an Allied invasion As a Swiss report claimed that the country s King had already abdicated and asked italian armies to Lay Down their arms. World War ii 50 years ago today May 17 1�943 German troops in Yugoslavia launch a Firth attempt to crush guerrillas led by the communist Josip Broz Tito. On the Southern soviet front German forces begin a series of unsuccessful counterattacks in the Kuban area. . Soldiers Onatsu in the aleutians Advance from massacre Bay to Jarmin pass after the japanese move farther Inland. Source 2194 Days of War w. H. Smith publishers inc. World almanac Book of world War ii Bison books corp ,1981 a Clinton watches of s thunderbird in Celebration of armed forces Day Andrews fab my. A presi Dent Clinton played 27 holes of Golf sat urday then joined first lady Hillary Rod Ham Clinton in watching the . Air Force s thunderbird execute an armed forces Day display of blazing Aerial fire works. The president his ears protected with right yellow earplugs sketched the a Nevers with his hands As the six f-16  through the air above this air Force base near Washington. Clinton Shook the hands of the thunderbird Crew members before the Preci Sion flying demonstration began. The Fly by for the commander in chief Drew applause and cheers not Only from him but from a crowd of thousands attend ing an armed forces Day open House. He made no Public remarks but also Shook the hands of several people in the crowd. Clinton started his Day on the base Golf course hitting a Ball straight Down the mid dle of the first Fairway on his first swing. His partners were former democratic rep. Beryl Anthony of Arkansas Lee Wil Liams one time administrative assistant to former sen. J. William Fulbright of Arkan Sas and kit Ashby a Friend from Clinton student Days at Georgetown University. President Clinton and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton watch As the air Force  team Flics overhead saturday at Andrews fab my. Gunmen shoot up bar killing 7, wounding 3 police Call it Fresno s worst multiple murder Fresno Calif. Up. Seven peo ple were shot to death and three others wounded sunday in what this Central California City s police called the worst multiple murder Case in the City s history. Police responding to a 2 . Report of a multiple shooting at Carrillo s club on the outskirts of the City found four men and three women dead from gunshot wounds said police sgt. Robert Robbins. Two other women were wounded and taken to local hospitals where their conditions were not immediately available. A Security guard also suffered dog bites when he apparently dashed through a backyard seeking help. Police said they were seeking two his panic men in connection with the shoot ing. No arrests had been made by Early sunday. The names of the victims were not re leased pending notification of relatives. Police said they did not have a motive in the killings. The area around the bar nightclub was sealed off sunday while detectives looked for clues in the shooting. The particulars Are pretty sketchy at this Point Robbins said. Witnesses at the scene said two his panic men were kicked out of the bar earlier in the evening but returned and begin shooting people in the bar. The killings sent Shock Waves through the City of 300,000 residents in the heart of California s heavily agricultural san. Joaquin Valley about 215 Miles North of los Angeles. Police sgt. Robert Frye called the shooting the City s worst multiple murder Ever. I be been on the police department for 26 years and to my knowledge this is the highest number of victims in any homicide in the history of the City of Fresno he said. The previous homicide record came just two months ago when four people were shot to death on the City s West Side. Motorcycle deaths fall with new Law los Angeles a Cali fornia motorcycle deaths dropped by More than one third in 1992, the first year of the mandatory helmet Law authorities said. Serious head injuries also declined by More than one half since the helmet requirement said pro Fessor Jess Kraus principal investigator in a Urcla school of Public health study. Three Hundred Twenty seven motorcycle rider deaths were re ported in 1992, compared with 523the previous year a 36 percent drop. The Law requiring helmet for All motorcycle riders went into effect Jan. 1,1992. Thiv study provides hard Evi Dence for California motorcyclists that Universal helmet Laws do save lives in All age groups including the majority of riders who Are Over age20, Kraus said at a Urcla news conference. But opponents of the helmet Law dispute the death Statis tic conclusions insisting the drop in the deaths stemmed from rider Edu cation and a decline in motorcycle ridership