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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 16, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes . Wednesday november 16.1994 food laced with Poison kills at least 2 dozen dogs from the associated press Central City a. At least two dozen do shave been killed by someone leaving dog food laced with strychnine police say. Dobermans rottweilers beagles German shepherds collies dalmatians and strays have Bee killed. Most of the dogs were tied in their Yards or kept in the House police say. If they re that Brave god help us said Dave Rios whose 8-year-old Dalmatian was poisoned last year. What if a child picks it up the most recent poisoning was about three week Sago in this Small Western Pennsylvania town. The poisonings usually occur three or four at a time then Stop for several months. Police chief Larry Wechtenhiser said. Strychnine which is lethal in Small doses is no longer on the Market. Police have no suspects. Bill Anderson s 8-month-old Rottweiler Kana died after several Days of diarrhoea caused by the Poison. Kana was a House dog occasionally chained in the Yard. He suspects the Poison was tossed into his Yard. What More can you do the dog was kept Intlehouse Anderson said. Sex nazi guard loses bid Philadelphia a Man who was a guard into nazi concentration Camps can t cite his Mother s american nationality in trying to regain the . Citizenship he was stripped oblast year a Federal appeals court ruled monday. . District judge William h. Yohn or. Revoked Johann Breyer s citizenship in december ruling he was ineligible when he applied under the displaced persons act of 1948 because he had lied about his nazi past. ". ". Breyer 69, acknowledged that he had been member of a nazi paramilitary group the Waffen is but did not say he had guarded nazi concentration Camps during world War ii. Total body radiation testing Washington a the government sponsored at least eight cold War experiments in which cancer patients were bombarded with total body Radia Tion to learn More about radiation s effects researcher say. Documents uncovered by the advisory committee on human radiation experiments show that in Man of the cases the radiation treatment had Little or no therapeutic value because the patients suffered from radiation resistant diseases according to a committee staff report. Gary Stern a senior researcher for the committee said in presenting the staff findings monday that it is unclear in Many cases whether the cancer patients had been adequately advised of the risks involved. The experiments All on civilian patients were carried out from the 1940s to the Early 1970s. The existence of such experiments especially Tho seat the University of Cincinnati in the 1960s, has been generally known. But the staff report is the broadest documentation so far of the extent of the total body radiation experiments and the defense department s involvement. The advisory panel was created by presi Dent Clinton last december to look into the extent of experimentation on people during the cold War. One aspect of the panel s review is to determine whether sick patients were subjected to radiation doses for Pur poses other than treating their illnesses. The staff report said 20 total body radiation experiments were documented As occurring in the 1940s through 1974, but it said the review is not Complete and others probably will be found. The report focused on 10 experiments in which the therapeutic value of the radiation appeared to be minimal or there was sponsorship by either the defense department or the1940s Manhattan project the program to develop the nuclear bomb. The 10 experiments involved As Many as1,000 cancer patients including several Hundred who suffered from radiation resistant types of cancer which made the whole body exposure questionable on medi Cal grounds alone the staff report suggested. Eight of those experiments had government sponsorship. Although some of the patients were extremely ill others appeared to be in relatively Good health Given their medical condition and lived for months even year or More after treatment according to uncovered documents. The military s interest in total body Radia Tion stemmed from a need in the 1940s and 1950s to learn More about the Impact of radiation exposure to military personnel in nuclear War. One set of experiments involving 263 cancer patients from 1951 through 1956 at . Anderson Hospital i Houston caught intense defense department interest because officials hoped it would help the air Force learn More about How radiation might affect pilots of proposed nuclear powered air plane. A number of patients were Given a series of psycho motor tests to perform before and after receiving specified doses in the . Anderson experiments the staff report said. Federal funding for Many of the experiments occurred despite an agreement by High ranking defense officials in the late 1940s against using human subject sin whole body radiation experiments said Daniel Gutt Ihan the advisory panel s executive director. In the Case of the . Anderson experiments Anair Force document cited a pressing need to learn More about radiation and the human body and it said civilian cancer patients were considered potentially valuable. Because this is currently the sole source of human data according to the staff findings. Other cases cited by in the advisory committee re port involved experiments conducted at memorial Hospital in new York in the 1940s the University of California Hospital in san Francisco,1942-46 the Chicago tumor clinic 1943-44 Baylor University in Waco Texas 1954-1963 Sloan Kettering Institute for cancer research new York 1954-1961 the naval medical research Institute 1959-1960 Cit of Hope medical Center Duarte calif., 1960-64 Oak Ridge Institute of nuclear studies Oak Ridge terin., 1958-1974 and the University of Cincinnati 1960-1971. Pair accused of prostituting 2 Young girls. -. A of Springfield a. A bail to taling $900,000 was set monday for a fed eral worker and a Washington d.c., woman accused of offering two girls Ages 7 and 8, As prostitutes to an undercover police officer John Walling 59, an electrical Engineer with the general service administration was charged with detain ing a person for the purpose of prostitution indecent liberties cocaine posses sex priest sentenced for raping altar boy Keene . A a former priest was sentenced monday to 33v4 to 67 years in prison for raping an altar boy decade ago. Gordon Macrae 41, was convicted i september of raping Thomas Grover. He also has pleaded guilty to assaulting three other boys in 1983 at St. Bernard s Church. Grover 27, was in the courtroom when Superior court judge Arthur Brenner read the sentence. Grover said Macra got what he deserved. I just Hope when he goes to bed a night he feels As alone As i did. It May never be enough in the final chapter Grover said. Grover and his Brothers David 28,and John 25, testified that Macrae had betrayed their Trust and violated them. Two other men also testified that Mac Rae had abused them a decade ago. In 1988, Macrae was convicted of a Misdemeanour charge of soliciting a 14 year old boy to engage in sex. The court ordered him to undergo counselling at a Center for troubled priests in new mexi co. He had completed his counselling and was working in an administrative role atthe Center when indicted in new Hamp Shire. Sion with intent to distribute and two counts of cocaine Possession. Donna Jones 26, who authorities say i unemployed was charged with detaining a person for the purpose of prostitution pandering and Possession of cocaine. The two were arrested saturday by Fairfax county officers after police said Jones allegedly accepted Money for pro Viding the two girls to perform sexual acts with the undercover officer. Waling s Hail was set at $500,000. Jones bail Wasset at $400,000. 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