European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 30, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes . 1 saturday july 30,1994officers placed close to nuke tests Washington apr when the . Military marched unprotected soldiers into trenches near atomic explosions  went even closer to ground Zero than the troops. Pentagon documents show the 1950s tests included Small groups of volunteers placed As close As 1.14 Miles from the radioactive detonations. The defense nuclear Agency said Friday that a there were about 42 officer volunteers and possibly one or two Laboratory workers who moved close in for four or five detonations. A the Story of atomic veterans is already a National disgrace but the a close to detonation program May represent even More severe exposures of servicemen than has previously been recognized a rep. Edward Markey d-mass., said wednesday. He demanded that the Pentagon Send to Capitol Hill information about the  War ii tests and any Modi Cal follow up that has been done in the intervening decades Markey said he Learned of the program through a single sentence in a list compiled by the staff of the advisory committee on human radiation which is trying to document All cold War radiation experiments on humans. A my staff has previously received allegations that prior to atomic tests some human subjects were placed at locations significantly closer to the site of detonation than the majority of troops exposed during a test a Markey said in a letter to defense Secretary William Perry. A material released by the advisory committee would tend at least partially to confirm such allegations Quot the allegations Are substantiated in a 1982 document provided on request by the defense nuclear Agency. Fact sheets on file at the Agency spell out How Many volunteers were put close to each atomic explosion. For instance a test called Badger in Yucca Flat nev., in 1953, involved about 2,800 troops including six army and six Marine corps officers who were a Volunteer observers a witnessing the blast from a distance of 1,830 meters a 1.14 Miles from ground Zero. An additional 590 observers watched the 23-Kiloton explosion from a distance twice that far 3,660 meters. In a test called Simon 550 observers watched a 43-Kil-Oton blast from 3660 meters 2.3 Miles away and eight others from trenches 1,830 meters away. Testifying earlier this week before the presidential committee the National association of atomic veterans feed the Simon test As an example As it complained that atomic volunteers did not understand the risks to which they were being subjected. Badger and Simon were part of a group of tests code named operation upshot Knothole. Government scientists at the Institute of Medicine last year began a five year study of radiation exposure to participants in up shot Knothole and four other atomic test series greenhouse 1953castle 1954redwing 1956 and plumb Bob 19571. The study replaces an inconclusive and scientifically discredited study that found no Clear cause and effect Between the atomic tests and cancer rates. Some 200,000 . Troops from All branches of the service took part in 235 atmospheric tests of nuclear weapons. Another 200,000 participated in the pos bomb occupation of Nagasaki and Hiroshima in Japan. The defense nuclear Agency has a toll free number for veterans to Call with questions about their own participation in atmospheric nuclear tests or the Hiroshima and Nagasaki occupations 800 462-3683. European communities member states and the american armed forces to be sold by Public demand the last 5 final Days due to the recession Many companies in trouble. 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Maintains sadlers heirs Are entitled to 25 percent. Ruderman would not comment on the lawsuit filed monday but said Roy allies from the song do not amount to much anymore. She did not provide a figure. A a it a not a very popular song. Its from another generation a Ruderman said. Ballad of the Green berets was the no. 1 song in the United states for five weeks in 1966, Barry Sadler died in 1989 from injuries he received the previous year during a robbery in Guatemala City where he was training nicaraguan Contra rebels. Indies of apparent suicide hot Springs Ark. A a police informant who testified last week in the cocaine Sale trial of surgeon general Joycelyn elders son was found dead thursday of an apparent suicide. The body of Calvin r. Walraven 24, was found inside his Home around 6 40 . With an apparently self inflicted gunshot wound to the head said Tim Hoover a police spokesman a no foul play is suspected a. Hoover said. Walraven an informant for the Little Rock police department testified july 18 against Kevin elders 28, at the trial in Pulaski county circuit court the trial was delayed a half Day because Walraven turned up in a Hospital the Day it was scheduled. Walraven testified that he had been taking an anti anxiety drug for two years a for a number of mental conditions i have Quot and had received extensive treatment the previous four Days. A. Kevin elders defense claimed police entrapment alleging Walraven badgered him into the july 29, 1993, Sale of one eighth ounce of cocaine. According to elders Walraven called him repeatedly in the weeks before the Deal and threatened to expose him to the Media. Walraven testified that he agreed to a help set elders up Quot for Little Rock police because he saw Needle Marks in eiders  from drug use and a was really worried about him a Walraven also testified that he had used drugs with elders Many times since the two met in january 1990. Elders was found guilty by judge John Plegge who set sentencing for aug. 29. Elders did not return a message left thursday night on an answering machine at his Home. There was no answer at the Little Rock office of his lawyer Les Hollingsworth who also did not return a message left at his Home. Exam officer nominated for Dod Post Washington a Paul Kaminski a specialist in defense procurement will be nominated by president Clinton to be undersecretary of defense for acquisition and technology the president said thursday. A Kaminski is chief executive officer of technology strategies amp alliances an investment banking and consulting firm. A former air Force officer he previously served in a number of Pentagon positions. From 1981 to 1984 he was responsible for developing stealth aircraft technology