European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 23, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes . Sunday october 23,199.4 radiation files blocked a Washington a members of a presidential panel combing through thousands of documents on radiation experiments say their work is hampered by the fact that the government refuses to declassify Man files. Or. Ruth Faden head of president Clinton s advisory committee on human radiation experiments said Friday that defense officials were erecting significant roadblocks because of the Classi fied files of radiation releases at weapons facilities during the cold War years. She noted that Many files related to human radiation experiments have been declassified and the committee has had Access to thousands of previously declassified documents. But major gaps remain because of files that have been destroyed cannot be found or remain classified. In the stars and stripes 10 years ago oct. 23,1984 president Rea Gan and Walter Mondale battled Over who could provide Strong leadership in the nuclear age but with election Day just 16 Days off neither delivered the sought after knockout punch. 20 years ago oct. 23,1974 defense Secre tary James Schlesinger said that for seven years the military forces have been suffering from a wasting Dis ease that could result in the count try becoming a second class military Power. V 30 years ago oct. 23,1964 the new Lead f Reship in the soviet Union claimed that it ousted Nikita Khrushchev to head off one Man Rule in the Krem Lin 40 year Sago oct. 23,1954 the 14 members of the North Atlantic treaty organization invited West Germany to join their Alliance. V 50 year Sago oct. 23,1944 after two Days off due to bad weather More than 1,100 . 8th air Force b-17s and b-24s hammered Industrial and communications targets in the Hamm Munster Hannover and Braunschweig areas of Germany. World War ii 50 years ago today oct. 23 19.4.4 american submarines sight one of the japanese fleets bearing Down on the Leyte invasion Force in the Philippines sinking two cruisers and damaging a third As Well As alerting . Commanders to the threat. Canadian tanks attack toward Bergen of zoom in an Effort to Seal off South Beveland in the Netherlands. Soviet troops occupy All of the Petsako Region in Finland s far North. Source 2194 Days of War w. H. Smith publishers inc. The world almanac of world War ii. Bison books corp., 1981 a in an interim report the advisory com Mittee said there May have been More than 1,000 experiments involving human subjects As Well As hundreds of other in stances in which radiation was intentionally released As part of the government s nuclear weapons program. Some of the experiments involved numerous subjects. In Many of the cases Only fragmentary information has been found or made available Faden a professor of bioethics at Johns Hopkins University in Balti More said at a news conference. In a lot of cases we May never have the kind of detailed information for drawing moral evaluations she said. The committee said its review has found hundreds of intentional releases of radiation Many More than previously suspected As part of the country s nuclear programs Between the 1940s and 1975. Daniel Guttman the panel s executive director said some of the intentional re leases involved tests on nuclear rockets High explosives nuclear aircraft technology and nuclear reactors at which Accident scenarios were simulated at the depart ment of Energy s Idaho National Engi Neering Laboratory. While the panel was advised previously of Only 13 intentional releases of ionizing radiation into the environment the com Mittee is now aware of hundreds of additional intentional releases the interim report said. The radiation releases occurred Over Many years at several weapons facilities. Included were those at Hanford Wash. Los Alamos . The panted Plant in Amarillo Texas Oak Ridge term. Plants near Portsmouth Ohio and Padu Cah by. The Doe weapons Laboratory in Idaho and the Nevada nuclear test site Guttma  report said four releases had been cited at los Alamos but that Doe Doc Ament Snow show the number of such tests approximate 250." and it said that while eight radiation warfare experiments were acknowledged previously recently uncovered documents show the number is at least 53." John Gustafsun a spokesman for the los Alamos lab said the existence of 254 implosion tests conducted at the facility Between 1944 and 1961 has been publicly known for years although the results of the tests remain secret. Bones of new types of dinosaurs found in Sahara by . Team Chicago a the Bones of two. New species of dinosaurs have been Dis covered including a Fleet footed Hunter so fierce it attacked animals More than 50 times its size. The dinosaurs lived 130 million years ago in a Lush tropical Paradise that is now the Sahara desert. The Hunter Dinosaur about 7 feet tall and 27 feet Long was named a Rovena Tor awakens is or african Hunter from in Abaca referring to the area of niger where the Bones were found. The second species was a 60-foot-Long Plant eater that is still unnamed. It was a sauropod Akin to the Brontosaurus so massive that its thigh Bone was 6 feet Long. /. Vav Paul Sereno Leader of a University of Chicago team unveiled some of the Bones from the 1993 expedition on thursday. A report by Sereno and his colleagues was in a recent Issue of the journal science. Sereno said the Dinosaur species were the first found in Africa that Date from the cretaceous the final period of the age of dinosaurs when they reached maximum development and began dying out. The species Are similar to animals that lived during an earlier time in North America and Asia. The Sahara desert is one of the least explored places on Earth for Dinosaur fossils and that is what prompted Sereno to Lead the search there we cast our fishing line and we found two huge fish on the line he said. Sereno said afr Venator was a Type of predator known As an All saurus. It was smaller than tyrannosaur the killer King that lived during a later Era in the Ameri can West but bigger than the veloce Iraq Tor featured in the movie Jurassic Park. Afr Venator ran on two Back legs and Paul Sereno of the University of Chicago stands before a Model of a new species of fierce Hunter dinosaurs he and his team discovered in Africa. Had very Strong forelimbs with sickle shaped claws Sereno said. And it apparently was such a fearsome Hunter that it preyed on the far bigger sauropod. The size difference would be comparable to a Collie attacking an elephant at every place we found the Sauro pod we did find traces such As Teeth of the theropod said Sereno. It is very Likely that they were prey and predator a theropod was a Type of flesh eating Dinosaur that walked mainly on the Hind ,. The newly discovered dinosaurs lived together in what May have been a prehistoric Eden. Sereno said the area once was in a perpetual summer with plentiful rainfall and Lush forests. Rivers and lakes were filled with fish and even then Croc Odiles. The team spent less than a month excavating the site working 16-hour Days and unearthing nearly six tons of Bones from a treasure trove of Dinosaur Fos Sils that Sereno Hopes to return to one Day. " William Hammer a Pale oncologist at augustan College in Rock Island 111., called the discoveries very  it s going to fill in some holes on the evolution of the big carnivores he said. Other experts said the discoveries add new understanding about the worldwide distribution of dinosaurs. Chavis a act Settle firing feud Washington a the a act and former executive director Benjamin Chavis settled their dispute Over his firing last August ending a sad Saga of fiscal woe at the nation s oldest civil rights group. The settlement was reached Friday according to court appointed mediator Robert Barnett three Days before a Washington City judge was to Convene a hearing to determine whether Chavis should be reinstated. I m grateful that this matter has been finally resolved Chavis said but he and a act at Torney Lawrence Greenvald declined comment on the details. Both sides were Emder court order not to disclose the settlement s specifics be fore monday. The settlement cancelled a monday hearing before Superior court judge Richard Salzman on Chavis lawsuit which contended that the National association for the advancement of coloured people violated its own procedures in fir ing him aug. 20. Chavis had sought a court order temporarily reinstating him. Barring reinstatement Chavis wanted the a act to pay the remainder of his three year compact which included a $200,000 annual salary plus a housing Al Lowance insurance and pension benefits. The a act s Board fired Chavis for failing to disclose that he used the organization s Money  a $332,400 out of court settlement with Mary Stansel his former assistant. That settlement the Board said was part of Carefree spending habits that fed a s3 million budget deficit for the organization. A act Board chairman William Gib son attending the organization s South Carolina state conference Friday declined to comment on the settlement. Earlier this month the Board ordered an Independent audit of a act finances after reports that Gibson had been double dipping on his expenses. Gibson denied it. Gibson s future May be decided at a february Board meeting in new York