European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 27, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stabs and stripes . Wednesday july 27,199445 hospitals linked to radiation tests Washington apr radiation sleuths probing cold War Era experiments said monday that they have identified 45 hospitals that exposed human test subjects to head to toe radiation. But the researchers said they do not know How Many of those studies were done for the government. The Federal advisory committee on human radiation experiments is trying to piece together that and other decades old information. A we know for certain that eight of the 45 were doing it on government sponsored contracts that Sall we know for a certainty a committee staffer Gary Stern said. In addition to eight hospitals known to have received government Money evidence gathered so far on tests involving total body radiation indicates research at three veterans hospitals and a Hospital at los Alamos n.m., where the first atomic bomb was built. Quot could you have been doing this kind of work out there in the Middle of the country and not be attached to the government we Haven to answered that a said Dan Gutt Man the committees executive staff director. The hospitals that performed such research were identified by the committee via a 1975 list of hospitals that cooperated in a government evaluation of total body radiation. But the list gave Hospital names Only without City or state identifications. Total body radiation is the subject of litigation. Relatives of test subjects have sued claiming patients did not get enough information before undergoing experiments during the 1960s at the University of Cincinnati Hospital a then called general Hospital. Or. Eugene Saenger and other researchers there irradiated 88 cancer patients at general Hospital. The Pentagon provided 60 percent of the funding for the experiments because it wanted to learn How radiation would affect soldiers. The committee was formed earlier this year by president Clinton to compile information on radiation tests on humans Over the years and to evaluate whether the experiments were medically or scientifically necessary. A witness told the committee that the atomic Energy commission Well aware of the dangers of radiation allowed poor navajos to work unprotected in Western uranium mines in the 1950s while their health was studied. A it was just an example of How it was out in the Boondocks a it was important to the country and no one wanted to step Forward and blow the whistle Quot said Stewart Udall a lawyer representing the miners. A Udall a former Secretary of the Interior said the Energy commission knew that the danger to the miners could have been alleviated with fans but failed to act. Caravans moved through the state offering medical exams to the workers Udall said. The workers signed consent forms for the exams but they were never told they were part of an Experiment he said. Eugene p. Tradii president of Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond defended the schools research from the 1950s and told the committee it should be careful in its probe of radiation experiments on humans not to create new victims. A. In the stars and stripes 10 years ago july 27,1984 a the head of the congressional committee that concluded . Military forces were not prepared for combat said the Pentagon was spending too much for nuclear arms and not enough for conventional forces. 20 years ago july 27,1974 a president Nixon a attorney James d. St. Clair and the watergate special prosecutor agreed that the while House would turn Over 20 tapes of subpoenaed conversations to the . District court by july 30. 30 years ago july 27,1964 a foreign ministers of the organization of american. States voted 15-4 for diplomatic and economic sanctions against com. Monist Cuba denounced the Castro regime and threatened armed Force if Havana a subversive tactics in the hemisphere continued. 40 year Sago july 27,1954 a two chinese. Communist Jet fighters were shot Down by Carrier based . Jets after they opened fire on . Planes searching for survivors of a British Airliner shot Down july 24 off Hainan Island. A 50 year Sago july 27,1944 a the first major . Armoured thrust in Normandy smashed through the germans defense line along the  Road Allied sources said. 50 years ago today july 27 19.4.4 soviet tank columns capture Lvov and Stanislav and bed army soldiers occupy Bialystok after a week of bitter combat. In Normandy amen can soldiers take Lessay and Petiers after breaking the German line. Advancing British units press the germans toward Florence on the italian front. . Marines Clear japanese troops from the Northern third of Tinian fierce fighting rages on Guam. A source 2194 Days of War. W. H. Smith publishers inc. The world almanac of world War ii Bison books corp., 1961 at sea standing on the Stem sunday Crew members prepare to abandon their burning fish factory ship the All alaskan about 725 Miles Southwest of Anchorage. Anchorage Alaska a a fish processing ship glowed red hot in frigid Waters monday a Day after it caught fire and forced the evacuation of 132 Crew members. One Man was missing and presumed dead. A they re going to keep it at Anchor until it Burns out. It could take a Day or two a coast guard Petty officer Scott Carter said. The missing crewman was identified As Kyle Smith 22, of Wallace Idaho. Ship officials said the fire on the 340-foot All alaskan began sunday morning in a cargo hold.  created an 8-mile Sheen around the ship in Uniak pass off the Alaska Peninsula about 725 Miles Southwest of Anchorage. Small ammonia and propane tanks which Crew members threw overboard exploded As the fire spread to fuel on the water creating a Cloud of toxic smoke. Crew members were rescued from life rafts sunday by another fishing vessel a there Are no flames visible on the top of the deck now but the Hull is blistered. Its glowing red hot and there a heavy White smoke a Carter said. Coast guard pollution experts were standing by to decide How to prevent environmental damage. No leaking fuel was visible monday officials at All alaskan seafood inc., the Seattle company that owns the ship and hires the Crew did not return Calls seeking comment. 2 teens get Pittsburgh a two teenagers were sentenced monday to life in prison without parole for killing a pizza deliveryman they lured into an ambush with a late night order. They ate the pizza after they shot him. Dorian Lamore 16, was convicted june 28 of first degree murder in the slaying of 34-year-old Jay Weiss. Phillip Foxx 17, was convicted of second degree murder. Common pleas court judge Robert Dauer also sentenced the pair to 25 to 50 years in prison to be served if their life sentences Are Ever commuted. Ing pizza deliveryman Foxx tried to say he was sorry but Dauer Cut him off asking a were you sorry then or just sorry now Quot the youth said his Mother was dead and he lived in an abandoned building because he was estranged from his father. But Dauer said that was no excuse. A people without parents done tall kill people a he said. Weiss brother John also refused Foxx a apology saying a sorry Isnit going to bring him  authorities say Foxx and Lamore called. Chubby a pizza and hoagies on sept. 9, 1993, to order pizza and soda then shot Weiss and another deliveryman Paul Puhac when they brought it. They took about $100 from Puhac and ate the pizza after the killing prosecutors said. Puhac who recovered from an Arm wound testified against the pair. He said Lamore shot Weiss twice through the neck. Weiss who was off that night had stopped at Chubby a for cigarettes and volunteered to ride with Puhac after he expressed concerns about making the delivery. 4 killed in fiery collision of 2 freight trains a Marathon Texas apr two freight trains collided head on in a Remote area of West Texas on monday. All four Crew members were killed and several cars derailed authorities said. The crash set the engines of both Southern Pacific trains afire and several cars carrying furniture derailed forcing authorities to close a nearby Highway. Both trains contained cars carrying hazardous chemicals but no spill was reported. The cause of the crash about 235 Miles Southeast of Elpaso was under investigation. There were two Crew members aboard each train and All four were from Sanderson Texas said Brewster county judge Val Beard. Their names were not immediately released. One train was travelling eastbound from Long Beach Calif to Houston and the other was westbound from Memphis Tenn to Long Beach said Mike Furtney a spokesman for the san Francisco based Southern Pacific. Hazardous materials Crews and Southern Pacific officials were sent to the crash site from Denver Elpaso Texas and Houston Furtney said