European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 15, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes . Saturday january 15,1994 top officer in . State picked for drug Battle i Washington a new Yor state s police superintendent was chosen thursday to Lead the drug enforcement administration in a Battle against drugs and violence that vice president Al Foresaid will be harder than it was to put an astronaut on the  Gore announced the nomination of Thomas Constantino to a standing room Only crowd at the Agency s headquarter sin suburban Virginia. Senate judiciary committee aides said they knew of no immediate opposition to Constantine that could Block Senate approval of his nomination even though his department is in the midst of an Evi Dence tampering scandal. The 55-year-old native of Buffalo,., has spent 32 years with the state in the stars and stripes 10 years ago Jan. 15,1984 gales lashed Northern Europe As the ferocious weather was blamed for the deaths of at least 14 people in Britain Ger Many Sweden and the nether lands. 20 year Sago Jan. 15,1974u.s. District judge Gerhard a. Goeselt struck Down the . Army Europe s anti drug circular on the grounds that it violates the constitutional rights of the 154,000 american soldiers stationed in Germany. 30 year Sago Jan. 15,1964 the death toll climbed past 100 and numerous major cities remained buried by Snow in the Wake of a storm that raged Over much of the Eastern half of the United states. 40 year Sago Jan. 15,1954 India notified the . And communist commands that 22,000 prisoners of War turned Over to India would be returned to their captors Jan. 20. 50 year Sago Jan. 15,1944 White House officials said president Roosevelt s per Sonal physician rear adm. Ross Mclntyre had asked him to ease up and take things easy for a while. World War ii 50 years ago today Jan. 15 19�44 . Forces overrun Monte Trocchio Clearing the germans from their last bastion in front of the rapid River on the Western Side of the italian front. Red army troops make a Surprise crossing of Frozen Lake Lumen and attack toward the German Strong Point at Novgorod on the Northern soviet front. In new Guinea the australians take Sio on the Huon Peninsula. Source 2194 Days of War w. H. Smith publishers inc. World almanac Book of word War Bison books corp., 1981 a police and has called the scandal the worst Case of trooper misconduct he has Ever seen. Three troopers have been  others face such charges As per jury evidence tampering and official mis conduct. Gore lauded Constantine for professionalism and commitment to excellence and  he said president Clinton picked Constantine because he wanted the very  Constantine said he accepted the nomination in part because of troopers killed in the line of duty. I believe that people do not have Tobe victims of crime he said. A i abhor bullies. I abhor  Man wearing bomb decries key West Fla. A a forme City commissioner barricaded himself with dynamite in a trailer for 10 hours on thursday to protest Navy housing being built at a  Powell forced his Way into a construction trailer at the Peary court hous ing project. He had a bomb made of a stick of dynamite and three blasting Caps on his body officials  removed the bomb before surren Dering officials said. Powell 45, was charged with armed burglary Possession of a destructive de vice and threatening to throw or Dis charge a projectile police spokeswoman Cynthia Edwards said. Powell was to be arraigned Friday. Alarmed burglary conviction is punishable by life in  was the driving Force behind a grass roots Campaign to Stop the Nav from building military housing at Peary court one of the last undeveloped site sin key West. A Community group sued to keep Peary court Green but the Navy won a Federal court order Clearing the Way for construction. Skinhead gets 8 years for raid los Angeles a a skinhead Leader accused of plotting a race War has been sentenced to eight years in prison for bombing two Homes and a car and throwing a Molotov cocktail into a Syna  Fri said Christopher d. Fisher and the White supremacist group he led the fourth Reich skinheads plotted to Start a race War by attacking a Blac Church and by killing prominent jews and Blacks including police beating victim Rodney g. , 20, and Follower Carl Boese 17, were among nine people arrested injury As part of an Fri sweep of hate  have crazy and distasteful ideas is one thing . District judge Willia Byrne said at their sentencing thursday. But to inflict damage on people and society because of those ideas is something else. Those types of activities cannot an will not be  Boese accepted a plea bargain calling for a five year term on his guilty pleas to similar charges. Sen. Edward m. Kennedy right questions a witness thursday in Waltham,mass., during a hearing investigating radiation experiments involving humans at left is rep. Edward . Patients unaware of tests a Waltham mass. A two former patients at a school for the mentally retarded heard thursday How they were Guinea pigs in food studies using radioactive particles 40 years  that particular time i could not read or write said Austin Larocque a former patient at the Fernald state  had no knowledge of anything other than i did what i was told when i was  s comment came during the first congressional hearing in what promises to be a lengthy investigation into government backed atomic experiments during the first two decades of the cold War spurred by recent re ports of plutonium tests on people after world War  and Charles Dyer an other former student said they did not know until they were told of news reports this month that the tests i which they participated As members of a science club involved radioactive material. Only Small doses of radiation were administered to about 120 students at Fernald. But experts told a panel headed by Massachusetts democrats sen. Edward Mkennedy and  j. Markey that the Fernald experiments were deplorable because the researchers failed to get the full consent of participants or their guard  Are people reacting so violently to this when we now have regu lations that theoretically should pre vent this Ever from happening again. Former patient Charles Dyer of Salem mass., appears at the hearing thursday. Asked or. Kenneth Ryan a Harvard medical school professor who helped develop More stringent Federal guide lines in the 1970s for research involving humans. I think it s about the secrecy an the disregard for human  the tests also were faulted for no having any direct Benefit. It was a typical failing of research in those Days Ryan said. Radioactive isotopes were Given i milk and Cereal to students at Fernald to see whether a chemical in Oatmeal would interfere with the body s ability to absorb Iron and Calcium. Issue downplayed in mid 80s Washington a under orders from Congress to document 30years of cold War radiation experiments on humans the Reagan administration in the mid-1980s decided in Stead to play Down the Issue Energy department papers show. The department s argument ranged from there was no scientific reason to believe the subjects suffered Long term harm to assertions that follow up studies would violate privacy according to documents obtained by the associated press. Congressional concerns Over Possi ble Long term injury to the subjects appear to have been based on misunderstandings of. The principles of human experimentation then Energy Secretary John s. Herrington said in a letter to Congress in Early 1987. Herrington now an attorney in Walnut Creek calif., defended the department s stand at the time but acknowledged in a Telephone inter View thursday that in 1986 the Issue was not up on the screen As a department priority