European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 05, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday january 5, 1994 . The stars and stripes Page 5 Hunt starts for radiation test victims s Washington a the Clinto administration is embarking on a paper search throughout the government to learn How Many americans deliberately were subjected to radiation experiments during the Early years of the cold War. If people were wronged we re going to make it right White House adviser George Stepha Nopulos said tuesday morning on Abc a Day after an inter Agency task Force met for the first time to map out the records collection Effort. White House communications director Mark Gearan said monday that presi Dent Clinton intended to work with con Gress on getting compensation for any victims who have been wronged by questionable radiation experimentation. Meanwhile thousands of callers jammed a toll free Telephone line at the Energy department that was set up two weeks ago tallow people to provide information about improper Numan radiation testing much of it in the 1940s and 1950s. Our lines Are swamped said Mary Ann Freeman a department spokeswoman. She said there have been As Many As 10,000 Calls a Day with Many people unable to reach one of 12 operators on duty. Energy Secretary Hazel o Leary who has promised full disclosure of radiation experimentation has said As Many As 800 individuals May have been subjected to questionable testing. But others including rep. Edward j. Markey d-mass., have suggested the number could be much higher. Markey held hearings in 1986 on human radiation tests and outlined some of the experimentation in a report that year. But he said the Energy department re fused at the Ime to cooperate by provid ing further documents. Markey appearing tuesday morning on Abc had Praise for the Clinton administration s performance on the Issue saying it had been breathtakingly open about records that have been closed for Over 45  Gearan took a swipe at the Bush and Reagan administrations saying they ignored the findings by Markey s subcommittee and refused to cooperate by making Public documents related to the testing. Nothing was followed up Gearan said. He said that the inter Agency task Force planned to meet regularly and that a half dozen departments and agencies were examining their records to try to pinpoint any improper radiation experiments. The search is expected to cover tens of thousands of documents Many of them in government archives but Many others in the hands of private research institutions hospitals laboratories and former government contractors. It is quite an enormous undertaking said Tara o Toole assistant Energy Secretary for safety and environment. She said it Likely will take months. New mayors vow to fight crime drugs Detroit a sounding More like a preacher than a politician newly sworn mayor Dennis Archer called on residents monday to sweep their sidewalks and protect their children from crime and drugs. Archer was among four big City mayors to take office monday. The other three Are Pittsburgh mayor Tom Murphy Atlanta mayor Bill Campbell and Minneapolis mayor Sharon Sayles Belton. Archer Detroit s first new mayor in 20 years advised a cheering crowd to get a grip on your life and the lives of your  stand with me when i Tell the dope Man get off our streets. Stand with me when i Tell the dope Man leave our children alone he said. Archer succeeds Coleman a. Young who announced after five terms that he would not seek re election because of his health. Young s emphysema kept him Home during monday s ceremonies Archer  re a Tough act to follow he told Young in his speech. And i have no illusions about the difficulties that lie  Archer takes Over a City with a potential budget Defi Cit of $88.5 million an eroding population and business base and a High crime rate. He called on residents for  citizen must take responsibility. Sweep the sidewalk in front of your House. Clean the rubbish from the storm sewer on your Street. Pick up the Bro Ken Glass in your Alley he said. In Pittsburgh Murphy made the City s residents the focus of his inauguration taking his oath from two neighbourhood activists and opening his office afterwards for a Public reception. He promised to triple the number of police patrols downtown and called on the City to come together in fighting crime. These Are our kids both the ones being shot and the ones doing the shooting he said. Get out of your comfortable lives and get into the lives of these kids Murphy a former state representative succeeds Fel Low Democrat Sophie Masloff Pittsburgh s first woman mayor Masloff did t seek another term. Dies  at 76 Edwardsville 111. A Benjamin l. Bos Worth a prisoner of War during world War ii who tried to Tunnel his Way out of the famed stalag 17 prison died sunday. He was 76. Bosworth a member of the former army air corps renamed the army air forces was held for 18 months after he was shot Down Over Germany. He was severely disciplined for trying to escape from stalag 17. The Effort was made famous in a movie named for the War Camp. Bosworth later worked for More than three decades As a firefighter and served 12 years As a Madison iii., Alderman. New Detroit mayor Dennis Archer left greets the Rev. Jesse Jackson before a prayer breakfast monday. In Minneapolis Belton was sworn in As the first woman and first Black to be mayor. The City is at a Crossroads the Democrat said and must choose to ride the changes that face Urban America or sink beneath  she succeeds four term democratic mayor Donald Fraser who retired. Across the Mississippi Norm Coleman was sworn in As mayor of St. Paul Minn. Fellow Democrat Jim Scheibel did not seek re election to a second term. In Atlanta Campbell takes Over a City facing a $30 million budget shortfall and gearing up to play Host to the 1996 summer olympics. The former City councilman began his Day with an interfaith service at big Bethel ame Church. From there he and his supporters took a 2 /2-hour walk around the City. They stopped at the Martin Luther King Center for non violent social change a police station the state Capitol and finally City Hall where Campbell was Given the keys to the mayor s office by his predecessor Maynard Jackson. Picasso Oil painting stolen in Chicago Chicago up police on tuesday searched for clues in the theft of an Oil painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso stolen from a closed downtown gallery. The painting valued at $500,000, was one of two Art works taken from the Richard Gray gallery on monday afternoon. The gallery on the second floor of a building on Chi Cago s fashionable North Michigan Avenue is closed mondays. Thieves smashed the Glass Entrance at the gallery and lifted the paintings from a Corner Wall about 30 feet inside after triggering a silent alarm. It was Only a matter of seven or eight minutes be fore the beat Man got there said area Anrce property crimes detective William Kernan. But it was All Over by  the stolen Picasso is 12vi-by-21 Inch work titled Teie. Art experts described the sem abstract profile of a woman s head painted in 1928 As a Quality original. Picasso died in 1973. The second painting stolen was a 1990 Oil and acrylic work by Illinois artist Harold Gregor. It is called Early fall Hayworth valued at More than $10,000. Pilot complacency blamed in f-16 crash fort Worth Texas a an error by a civil Ian Pilot caused a new f-16 to crash during a test flight in May an air Force investigation has found. Investigators attributed the disaster to momentary complacency by the Lockheed corp. Pilot Joe Bill Dryden. The plane was on a test flight before delivery to the air Force officials said the fact that this Type of Accident occurred at All was very surprising to All concerned the investigating officer col. Edward l. Daniel of Eglin fab fla., said in a report made Public tuesday. About four seconds before the aircraft made by Lockheed crashed into a Field 31 Miles Northwest of fort Worth Dryden ejected at an Altitude of 626 feet and was killed. Fathering child to Cost Man $100,000 Indianapolis a a Man who Aea feed to father a child for a fellow teacher must paytl00,000 in child support despite the woman s written Promise notto seek Money from him an appeals court ruled. The Indiana court of appeals said Francine Todd had no right to sign away her daughter right to financial support from her father Edward Straub. It is apparent that our legislature has created a Strong current Public policy with the object of protecting the rights of children from the whims of their parents and the Power of the state judge Stanley Miller wrote in thursday s 2-1 ruling. The elementary school teachers were dating when Todd asked Straub to father her child. Straub agreed if Todd promised in writing she would never seek financial Aid from him. The relationship continued three years after their daughter now 5, was born. It ended after Todd sued for child  know of no medical requirements or of any sperm donor program that continues to give insemination injections after the Donee becomes pregnant Miller wrote. Straub s lawyer s. Frank Mattox said the Cou ple s agreement should be binding. There is an unqualified constitutional right for a single woman to have a child. It is the classic Mur Phy Brown situation he said referring to the unmarried television character who had a child