European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 16, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 0 the stars and stripes . Thursday december16,1993 a a a a Mymi toy. Appeared in More than 100 movie thin Man film sophisticate Myrna Loy Dies new York apr Myrna Loy who As the charming sophisticate Nora Charles made marriage look like a Lark in the thin Man movies is dead at 88. Loy who died tuesday at Lenox Hill Hospital where she had been hospitalized for about a month with an undisclosed illness had. A career that stretched from silent films to to sitcoms and included More than 100 movies. For a generation in the 1930s and �?T40s, she was known As Quot the woman every Man wanted to marry.1 on screen she came across As smart charming affectionate witty and unflappable off screen Loy supported a variety of Liberal causes. She was one of the first stars to Challenge Hollywood discrimination against Blacks and spoke out against Mccarthy Era efforts to blacklist actors suspected of communist sympathies. A she had an intellect a said Tony Randall who appeared with her in the to series love Sidney. A she never cared very much about clothes or anything like that. She cared about  Loyd a most famous role was opposite William Powell s Sleuth Nick Charles in the six thin Man movies of the 1930s and 40s. As Nora Loy was undaunted by bullets and matched her irreverent husband Martini for Martini joking him out of hangovers and presiding with Grace at a party full of hoodlums. In her own life Loy was married and divorced four times. A in those Days we still had this thing that we had to get married a she said in 1980. She had no children. Her colleagues finally honoured the actress with their highest tribute in 1991 a an honorary Oscar. Born Myrna Williams in ranch country near Helena mont., Loy moved with her family to California when she was a schoolgirl. Her first role was a chorus girl in pretty ladies in 1925. She also played a chorus girl in the 1927 the jazz Singer the first talkie Loyd a husbands were producer Arthur Hornblow jr., advertising executive John Hertz jr., pro Ducer screenwriter Gene Markey and producer Howland Sargent. Deliberate . Releases of radiation uncovered Washington apr the government purposely dropped radioactive material from planes or released it on the ground a dozen times after world War ii sen. John Glenn said tuesday. The Ohio Democrat chairman of the Senate governmental affairs committee released an unclassified version of a report by the Genera accounting office the investigative Arm of Congress. It said that a eight of the tests were part of secret radiation weapons research in Tennessee and Utah a in four other instances radiation was put into the air in Nevada so that pilots could Chase the Cloud of fallout to see How it moved. \ a one radiation Cloud was tracked 70 Miles downwind Over a sparsely populated area in new Mexico from los Alamos to Watrous another was tracked 10 Miles. The experiments done Between 1948 and 1952, have been concealed until now. A there is no justification for the government to keep this information secret and there is no justification except in extreme wartime conditions for the principle of informed consent to be abandoned a Glenn said. Arjun Makhijani president of the Institute for Energy and environmental research in Takoma Park md., said the disclosures confirmed educated guesses about the extent of government experimentation after the Manhattan project which developed the first atomic  this is the first solid evidence that there was a systematic radioactive warfare program a he said. A there had been indications that the military considered radiation warfare to be very important after the War but no indication of thorough and systematic planning like  Energy department spokesman Sam Grizzle said that department officials had not had a Chance to review the new information but that Secretary Hazel a of Leary believes the Public has a right to know about the sex pct mints. / revealing the Long concealed evidence a is very much in line with her policy of opening this department to the Public and we look Forward to working with senator Glenn and his staff to provide a full accounting of these tests a Grizzle said. The latest disclosures came a week after of Leary announced a new polity of openness at the Energy department which produced America s nuclear Arsena Fand guarded its secrets during the cold War. Of Leary for the first time acknowledged 200 nuclear weapons tests and radiation experiments the government conducted on human Guinea pigs including injections of plutonium intol8 civilians during the 1940s. The Gao report was triggered by revelations in 1989 of experiments that spread radiation Over a 200-mile stretch of Oregon and Washington state in 1949. Investigators probing those tests at the Hanford nuclear reservation in Washington uncovered evidence of the additional deliberate radiation releases. None was accidental or part of nuclear weapons manufacturing Glenn said. Eight of the tests were part of at attempt to design a weapon that could spread radiation around a limited tightly controlled area. Such devices were tested through 1952, and the research appears to have ended in 1954, the report said. As part of that research radiation was emitted at or near ground level at the Oak Ridge tenn., office of the old atomic Energy commission twice during 1948. Six other times from 1949-52, the Energy commission army chemical corps and air Force tested radiation spreading devices at an army proving ground in dug Way Utah. Moore Haven Fla. Apr six packages containing hand grenades have been seized after a handful of threats was mailed to officials in Rural Glades county Over the past two years. But authorities found Only duds in two of the packages opened tuesday. The remaining packages were to be opened wednesday. The two packages also contained notes signed a go a the same sign off that was on the threatening letters sheriffs Deputy Robert Peterson said. A they were basically just Loose grenades in a Box a Peterson said. A they looked exactly like the kind of Dud grenade you can buy at any army Navy surplus store. But until we open them All we re treating them As if they re  the letters contained vague threats against the local government. The last letter received in june promised a a big bang. A big  a the grenade packages began turning up monday. They were addressed to the Moore Haven City commission the Glades county commission a local tax office retired county judge . Wales and county judge Kirby Sullivan Sullivan who got two packages notified authorities monday after they were hand delivered by an unknown messenger. Two mailed packages were intercepted by postal officials later monday and two More mailed packages were intercepted tuesday. Glades county sits on the southwestern Edge of Lake Okeechobee in South Central Florida. It is one of the state s least populated and poorest counties with about 7,600 residents including 1,500 in Moore Haven sending a letter bomb is a Federal crime carrying a penalty of up to 20 years in prison and a $10,000 Fine. Killer in theater strangling executed Huntsville Texas apr a former Security guard at a Houston playhouse was executed by injection Early wednesday for strangling the theater director during a Holdup. Clifford x. Phillips 59, went to his death hours after the . Supreme court refused to Block the execution. Phillips gave a rambling final statement that lasted nearly five minutes. In it he expressed love for his wife gave thanks to Allah and expressed remorse for the slaying. A Only god knows it was an unintentional situation that look place a he said. A Only god will determine if i be that Type of guilty or innocent person As newspaper and Media made me to  the execution was delayed a half hour because prison officials had trouble finding a suitable vein in his Arm i which to insert the lethal drugs Phillips was convicted in the 1982 murder of Iris Siff St Heater. The 58-year-old woman was Workin late filling out a government Grant application when so was strangled with a Telephone Cord. Phillips had been fired As a guard a few weeks Earlie for sleeping on the . Drug bust beats French connection record by William Murphy new Day new York a in a frigid studio apartment in a luxury building in Manhattan police discovered the largest single Cache of pure heroin Ever found in the City a five suitcases packed with 193 kilograms valued at $30 million wholesale officials said tuesday. Police also found $67,500 in Cash in the dishwasher when they raided the apart ment on West 57th Street on monday night Manhattan District attorney Robert Morgenthau said tuesday. The heroin had a Street value of $277 million and could have been converted into 12 million Glassine envelopes for Street Sale Morgenthau said. The 193 kilograms about 425 pounds is almost three times As much As the previous single highest seizure the infamous French connection Case from the 1960s in new York officials said. In 1989, 800 pounds of heroin were found in a raid on three new York City Homes. A this is one of the most significant narcotics cases in the history of the new York City police department a police commissioner Raymond Kelly said. The apartment was used by Gilbert Barbe a Paris based drug smuggler who was indicted along with 65 others last week on charges they ran a massive heroin ring amp that imported about 200 kilograms 440 pounds a year Morgenthau said. Money packaging material found in the apartment matched the material wrappings $1.7 million in Cash that was found last month. Authorities discovered the Cash in the false Bottom of a cargo Container at a new York City warehouse used by the drug organization. The group included members of four local mob families Morgenthau said