European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 28, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes . Tuesday december 2b, 1993radioactive Cereal fed retarded boys Waltham Mas. Apr Ivy league researchers fed radioactive Cereal to retarded boys in the 1940s and 1950s without the parents knowledge the Boston sunday Globe reported. The experiments grew out of nutritionists concern that a diet heavy in Cereal might slow Down the body s ability to digest Iron and Calcium the newspaper said. The experiments on boys aged 15 to 17 were carried out by scientists at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of technology both in Cambridge. A i feel just As Good about it today As the Day i did it a said Constantine Maletskos a former Mit researcher who put radioactive Calcium in their milk. Maletskos said the teen agers at the Fernald state school were not harmed because the radiation Levels were too Low. But he said he did not know of any follow up studies of the health of the children. Quot the attitude of the scientists was we re going to do ibis in the Best Way possible a Maletskos told the Globe. Quot they would get the minimum radiation they could possibly get and have the Experiment  in one Battery of tests 17 boys ate seven meals laced with radioactive Iron exposing their spleens to up to three times As much radiation As the typical american receives in a year from natural sources the Globe said. In another 19 boys were Given radioactive Calcium in their breakfast milk during one meal exposing them to about one third of the radiation that most americans would receive in their lifetime from fallout of nuclear weapons testing according to Jacob Shapiro director of radiation Protection at Harvard University. In a 1945 letter proposing the research Mit biochemist Robert s. Harris assured Fernald a superintendent that there was Quot absolutely no ground for caution about the radioactive material. However consent forms sent to parents or guardians did not mention radiation the Globe said. Never secret the research was published in scholarly journals. But documents on the Effort funded by the Quaker Oats co. And the now defunct . Atomic in. Ergy commission sat unnoticed in the schools Library for years. Maletskos said researchers did even Hing possible to minimize exposures using animals to develop lest procedures first then limiting each boys participation. But some researchers such As Richard Clapp of Psi an epidemiology research group in Boston believe there is no Safe level of radiation. The revelations came As details were surfacing of Little known radiation research across the country during the cold War. In the stars and stripes10 year Sago Doc. 28,1983 a president Reagan took full blame for the Security lapse that allowed the terrorist bombing of the Marine Barracks in Beirut Lebanon saying military commanders there should not be punished.20 years ago dec. 28,1973 a Federal Energy chief William e. Simon announced establishment of a standby system for gasoline rationing but said he still believes its use can be avoided.30 year Sago dec. 28,1963 a British military patrols were out in strength in towns on Cyprus As a truce Between the greek and turkish cypriots held for a second Day.40 years ago dec. 28,1953 a air Force officials disclosed that they have ordered nearly 4,000 . Airmen replaced by British civilians in an Effort to save $14 million from the Cost of maintaining strategic bomber bases in britain.50 year Sago dec. 20,1943 a some 2,000 Allied warplanes seized air control Over the invasion coast of France during the Christmas weekend and hammered nazi targets. World War ii 50 years ago today dec. 281 �?�943 Canadian soldiers Clear the Eastern italian port of Ortona after a bitter eight Day House to House Battle with German paratroopers. On the Southern soviet front the red army retakes Koros Tishov and a Tevka near Zhitomi american marines attack from their beachhead toward the japanese Airfield on new Britain s Cape Gloucester. Source 2194 Days of War w h. Smith pubic her inc. World almanac Book of world via ii. Bison books corp., 1981 a eviction of drug suspects Dea police defend tactics for chasing dealers from housing a Quincy mass. A Donna Spenser faces a drug charge but she Hasni to gone to trial yet. No matter. The charge got her evicted from her apartment. Spenser is one of the targets of a Little known strategy in the War against drugs kicking people out of housing when they Are suspected of being in the drug Trade. Its an approach criticized As More trouble than it s Worth. Quot in a supposed to be out of Here a said Spenser an admitted drug user As she left her building recently. Quot i done to know what a going to happen. The drug enforcement administration is working with police and landlords on battling drug dealing in rental housing including use of evictions said Jack Kelly a spokesman for the deals new England office. In new England the Dea has trained 500 police officers in More than 400 police departments in How to keep drug activity out of rental housing. The Dea has been training Law officers in drug related evictions for about three years and they Are done elsewhere around the nation As Well Kelly said. Police in Quincy said they Are simply trying to clean up drug blighted areas. A the Way we look at it we re but to help the neighbourhood a said police chief Francis e. Mullen who is following the Lead of other Massachusetts cities including Boston Worcester and Brockton. The strategy creates More problems than it solves said some advocates for the poor. Quot this is bad stuff a said John Roberts executive director of the civil liberties Union of Massachusetts Quot where do they expect those people to go a Quot this is a system which if abused could Lead to people being made Home Donna Spenser of Quincy mass., says she1 was ordered to vacate her apartment although she has not yet been tried on a charge of cocaine Possession. Less instantly without people being heard a said Charles Harak a lawyer for the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute v which provides Legal services to the poor. Edwin Shanahan of the rental housing association which represents 670 owners and managers across Massachusetts said his group tells members How evictions can help in dealing with troubled buildings. Quot it can be a valuable tool in the owners fight to try and manage his or her property a he said. An 8-year-old state Law is being used to evict people speedily from privately owned housing As Well As state funded Public housing in the Iatc-i980s, the Federal government moved to make it easier to evict people allegedly involved with drugs from federally funded Public housing. Those evictions Are growing said Jim grow an attorney with the National housing Law project in Oakland Calif. Quot in a not sure we be seen the top of this wave yet a he said. Quot its not just drug dealers. Its anybody accused of use or Possession. The evictions Are happening  Harak and other critics worry that the arrest of one family member could result in an entire family owing tossed out. Quot whole families can become homeless based on not Well supported allegations of some criminal activity by one member of the household. And it happens a Harak said. Police said Spenser 45, faces a cocaine Possession charge and was part of a larger problem at the Willard Street housing Complex. Drugs were sold from several apartments including hers investigators said. Spenser said she a a disabled widow who has battled cancer and has a nervous condition. She admits using drugs but denies the charge against her and said nothing she did merited a police raid arrest and  i think it is against my rights As a citizen because in a not hurting anybody but myself and it was behind my own closed doors which i pay rent for a she said. Cities worse off than in 68, Hud chief says Washington a the plight of cities is More severe than it was 25 years ago when a presidential commission declared that Urban America was in crisis because of racial division housing and Urban development Secretary Henry g. Cisneros said sunday. Quot despite tremendous gains for Many americans including Many afro americans. For Many Urban dwellers life is a lot worse a said Cisneros on no cd a Afeef the press. He said the combination of drugs a Lack of jobs racial strife and a general decline in the Quality of life has made conditions Quot worse than. When the Kerner commission wrote that the cities were in  after a string of Urban riots a commission headed by former Illinois gov Otto Kerner declared in 1968 that America a is moving toward two societies one Black one White a and said this was largely responsible for the frustrations that led to violence in Many inner cities. Cisneros said sunday that he is concerned about the Quot vast differences Between the inner City poor and affluent mostly White suburbanites. Cisneros placed much of the blame for the cities decline on the Republican administrations of Ronald Reagan and George Bush during which he said cities were largely ignored by the Federal government a Over the last 12 years we be seen. Disinvestment in our cities Federal Aid to cities is Down. To the Levels about half of what it was and the cities Are dramatically Hurt. They just can to function in this environment a he said. But his assessment was challenged by conservative William Bennett who was education Secretary in the Reagan administration and drug Czar under Bush. He called Quot sheer nonsense the claim by Cisneros that the decline of the cities was the result of gop policies of the 1980s. A we have spent a Fortune in social programs a said Bennett also on Abc he maintained that the Republican administrations a spent More on these problems in the �?T80s than was spent in the �?T70s.�?T