European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 17, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The still functioning chernobyl Power Plant towers Over the empty buildings of the town Ofpria Pyatt Ukraine. Eastern Europe faces death from pollution  Deutsche Presse Agenter Illions of Eastern europeans live in areas where it s inadvisable to take a. Deep breath or drink running water As this can cause serious illness and even a lower life expectancy. Industrial waste and. Radioactive fallout have polluted the environment so badly that entire landscapes Are uninhabitable like the area surrounding the still operating ukrainian nuclear Energy Plant at chernobyl where a reactor exploded in april 1986. About 600,000 ukrainian children live in areas seriously contaminated by the chernobyl disaster or. Evgenij Livshitz head of the department for blood disease at the Central children s Hospital of Kiev told a recent conference in Munich Germany. He said the numbers of children developing leukaemia had been steadily increasing since the worst known Accident in nuclear Energy production shocked the world in 1986. According to russian expert Vladimir Chern Usenko the nuclear fallout that spread Over Europe from the chernobyl explosion will last another 30 years. Chern Usenko organized the emergency measures in chernobyl and. The nearby town of Prip Yat. The City. \ itself and a 18-mile zone around it have been declared uninhabitable. Until april 26th, 1986, More than 50,000 people lived in Prip Yat now it s a ghost town. The devastation of decades Long Industrial programs pushed through in communist East Europe without a thought of pollution can be seen in the Northern part of the czech Republic. There dust from Coal fired Energy plants has literally wiped out forests and led to chronic respiratory diseases among the population whose live expectancy is at least 10 years below the european average. Northern Bohemia is one of More than 100 hot spots in a study on the connection Between pollution and health in East Europe and in european Russia. The most common health problems Are the result of exposure to Lead in air and soil airborne dust Sulphur dioxide and other toxic gases according to a study carried out on behalf of the world Bank the european Union and the organization for economic cooperation and development. The data Are nightmarish. In 37 places most of them in Poland the czech Republic Bulgaria and Russia evidence of euro behavioural deficiencies among children overexposed to Lead has been found. These deficiencies will have Long term effects on children s performance at school the study adds. In 46 areas association Between acute respiratory diseases and air pollution was found. In 29 of them the diseases were chronic the study adds. -.-. In eight places in Poland the czech Republic and Russia there is reasonably Strong evidence of a connection Between air pollution and excess infant mortality and deaths from lung cancer. Throughout Eastern Europe the Supply of drinking water is a major problem. In Romania carcinogenic substances were found in dangerous concentration in water samples from 32 of the country s 41 districts. In Lithuania a water replacement program for pregnant women is in operation in one third of the country. There s Little Hope that pollution problems in Eastern Europe will be solved in the near future. On the contrary the austrian environmental organization global 2000 has warned that Western investments could even strengthen ecologically destructive branches of Industry " there. The West especially countries of the european Union could use the East european countries As a hinterland with a cheap labor Force and As such try to keep the environmental standards Low global 2000 says. The ecological reconstruction of Eastern Europe requires enormous sums global 2000 expert Martin Kaspar says. His organization has estimated the Money needed to eliminate air pollution in Eastern Europe at More then $200  nearly $100 billion would be needed to set up new systems of drinking water supplies. For the time being the West is mainly financing experts who Tell the local authorities what they ought to be doing to solve pollution problems Kaspar  there is no Money for  Scripps Howard news service science shorts vets and skin cancer dermatologists at University of Southern California s school of Medicine say world War ii veterans who served in the Pacific apparently Are twice As Likely to contract skin cancer As veterans who served in Europe. Drs. Richard Bennett and Mandy Ramani base their finding on a study of 370 world ii servicemen who contracted three types of skin cancer Between 1979 and 1989. Although the veterans administration has not acknowledged liability for these patients our study underscores the fact that Many Wii servicemen s skin cancers were service related Bennett said in a recent journal of the american Academy of dermatology. The us researchers noted roughly the same number of vets served in Pacific and Europe but of the 370 skin cancer patients they surveyed 66 percent participated in the War against Japan and Only 34 percent served in Europe. Bennett and Ramani blame the excess Pacific cancers on the High sunlight and humidity the vets were exposed to factors that Are known causes of skin cancer. Surfing for fitness surfing is More than fun at the Beach. It s a demanding aerobic event. What confers the aerobic Benefit in t standing of the Board however it s the paddling Back and Forth in search of the perfect wave according to a recent study by experts at Brigham Young University Hawaii in Laie. The dedicated surfers who participated in this study indicated that they usually stay out in the Ocean until their arms and shoulders give out the report said. The study involved tests on exercise machines to test their upper and lower body strength and endurance. The findings were presented recently at the american College of sports Medicine s annual meeting in Indianapolis. Tests from the full time surfers those who surfed More than 10 hours a week showed their upper body aerobic capacity to be very High and their lower body capacity was higher than the Norm the study said. Even part time surfers had an upper body measurement that was about the same As that of fit runners. Too much protein diets Rich in proteins May cause kidney cancer and illnesses that Lead to kidney cancer researchers at the National cancer Institute say. That possibility is raised by a study coordinated by Sci s or. Wong to Chow which Analysed the dietary intake of 690 kidney cancer victims. People whose diets include Large amounts of meat eggs milk and cheese Are 90 percent More Likely to contract kidney tutors than those who consume modest  of protein Chow reported in the journal of the National cancer Institute from wire reports wednesday August 17, 1994 the stars and stripes 21