European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 10, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday february 10, 1994 . The stars and stripes Page 7 % a radiation tests posed Little threat doctors say Washington apr while veterans hospitals participated widely in Early radiation experiments on Lumans dose Levels were Low and posed no Long term health threats say doctors involved in the procedures. The scientists told Congress that the experiments using radioactive isotopes for diagnosis As Well As treatment brought Early advances that eventually led to today a widely accepted use of nuclear Medicine. Veterans affairs Secretary Jesse Brown said the hospitals were Given Clear health guidelines a and we Are aware of nothing to indicate that these standards were not strictly  he emphasized however that the departments records search is far from Complete. Brown and a panel of physicians and scientists All experts on nuclear Medicine testified tuesday before the House veterans affairs committee. The panel is examining whether veterans were improperly used As subjects in radiation experiments in the Early years of the cold War. The scientists said that perhaps with a Small number of exceptions the cold War radiation experiments on humans in the 1940s and �?T50s a at a hospitals and elsewhere a appear to have involved doses that would leave no Long term health problems. Or. James Pittman director of the radioisotope unit at the a Hospital in Birmingham ala., during the 1950s, said radiation dose Levels were Low and considered Safe. Verbal consent for their use was obtained from patients Pittman said. Quot the Basic motivation and rationale. Was the improvement of Medicine and the care of individual patients a Pittman said. But he said there also was a sense of excitement a when we Felt we were making great discoveries for humanity and helping Advance medical understanding diagnosis and  or. Ervin Kaplan former chief of nuclear Medicine at the a Hospital at Hines 111., said that in 36 years of working in the radioisotope program he has come across a no evidence that a patient was injured As a consequence of participation in a radioisotope research  the use of radioactive isotopes As part of medical diagnosis and treatment is widely accepted today. The physicians said More than 10 million nuclear Medicine procedures were conducted in the United states last year including treatment of 500,000 cancer patients. Or. Rosalyn s. Yalow a recipient of a Nobel prize in 1977 for research into the use of radiology As a diagnostic tool noted that radioactive iodine was used to treat the overactive thyroids of former president Bush and his wife Barbara. Not going ape Jimmy the Gorilla lies still on the floor As doctors Monitor his heartbeat tuesday at Miami a metro zoo. The zoo is performing its annual checkups on the gorillas As part of preventive health care. Senator says general under dark Cloud Washington apr a prominent air Force general should not retire at three Star rank until a a dark Clouds concerning allegations of misconduct in a promotions Case is removed a Republican senator says. Sen. Charles e. Grassley a Iowa wrote president Clinton on tuesday about the possible promotion of it. Gen. Buster c. Glosson an architect of the air Campaign during the persian Gulf War. Glosson who has submitted retirement papers already is working at the three Star rank. But he does not have enough time in the rank to retire at that level. Nonetheless he can retire with a three Star pension if the president nominates him for promotion and the Senate confirms the nomination. On monday Grassley reviewed confidential portions of an air Force inspector general a report into charges that Glosson attempted to improperly influence members of the 1993 general promotion Board. According to Grassley the report asserts that a general Glosson lied under  air Force Secretary Sheila Widnall disciplined Glosson last december saying he a attempted to improperly influence officers who were selected to serve on a promotion  the letter of reprimand was considered a career ending step. A i do not know How the Senate could approve Gen. Glosson a nomination so Long As the charges stand a Grassley wrote Clinton in a letter dated tuesday. A somehow the dark Cloud hanging Over Gen. Glosson a name must first be  Clinton has not yet decided to nominate Glosson. The Case poses yet another pitfall for a president seeking solid relations with the military. In nominations requiring Senate confirmation any senator May place a hold on the nomination. If enough senators support the move it could Block confirmation  Brown enters California governor race from wire reports Burbank Calif. A Kathleen Brown the daughter of one former California governor and the sister of another launched her bid tuesday to perpetuate the family dynasty. Quot Brown the 48-year-old state treasurer stood in an aerospace contractors Plant and declared. A enough is  she said that Republican gov. Pete Wilson is failure and that she is the Only candidate with a plan that can help the recession battered state. A i was raised in a family that taught me not towline and complain when i saw something wrong but to get out and try to change it and try to fix it and make it better a Brown said. Browne a father Pat Brown was governor during californians Golden years from 1959 through 1966. Her brother Jerry Brown was governor from 1975 through 1982 and has run unsuccessfully for . President three times. She has Strong democratic primary opposition in state insurance commissioner John Garamendi. Wilson is unchallenged in the gop  killer of 2 Dies Camp Pendleton Calif. A a Marine who kidnapped his estranged wife and killed two people who tried to intervene died tuesday of self inflicted wounds. Lance Cpl. Timothy Clemons 22, shot himself monday when he was confronted by a a member of the Shore patrol at his old Barracks at Camp Pendleton. He abducted his estranged wife sunday As she left work at a Carlsbad mall fatally shooting two of her friends who tried to intervene police said. Clemons fled to Mexico with his wife Debra Hearn. Hearn managed to or Sudac her husband to return to the United states on monday morning and free her it. Michael Shipley said. She was unhurt. He then went to the Barracks where he lived before  bodies Wash ashore Stuart  four bodies two of them children washed ashore Early wednesday after a group of haitian refugees landed on a Florida Beach. About 60 refugees were found alive. They were turned Over to immigration officials. The four bodies were found on the Beach in Martin county said sheriff s sgt. Billy Chase. Two survivors found in neighbouring St. Lucie county were initially reported by authorities incorrectly As fatalities the victims apparently drowned. Police thought they accounted for everyone but remained on the Lookout for additional survivors or  of Malcolm x Dies Highland Park Mich. A Abdul Aziz Omar a Black Muslim minister and older brother of the late Macolm a has died in his suburban Detroit Home. He was 70. Omar who called himself Philbert a organized temples in Michigan and frequently spoke at schools about the importance of education for Black children. Omar also has been credited with helping reignite interest in Malcolm a a Black nationalist killed in the 1960s, and was often interviewed when a popular movie about his brother was released in 1992. Omar died sunday after suffering a series of heart problems and strokes. Services Are scheduled for saturday in Highland Park. Teen robbed of shoes slain Houston a eighteen year old Adam Martin gave his neighbors haircuts so he could afford the $125 for a pair of Nicks. He bought the sneakers last week. Two Days later he was shot to death after handing Over the shoes to a pair of robbers. Martin was walking with a Friend sunday when a car pulled Over and two men inside demanded their shoes jackets Caps and a portable radio police said. A they had everything they wanted a said Martins companion Gregory Dewayne Pennamon. A they just straight up shot  Pennamon said he narrowly escaped by sprinting out of the line of fire As the car sped away. Martin died at a Hospital about an hour after the shooting. The search for suspects continued tuesday police said