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Page 2B THE BATTALION MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1979 Ice Age man called superior (^0V0rniX10Ilt United Press International LONDON — Modern man likes to think of himself as the inheritor of the Earth but Prof. Valerius Geist suggests it is time to stop bragging. He thinks the most impressive human of them all lived back in the Ice Age. Geist suggests in a provocative theory published in New Scientist that only conditions of abundant re sources produce really healthy indi viduals and Ice Age man not only lived in such an environment but he regulated his population to prevent its destruction. It’s been down and up for the human race ever since, said the University of Calgary environmentalist, but the Ice Age represented a sort of peak. “Bronze age and early middle-age Europeans also had eyecatching de velopment, larger in average body size than present-day Europeans,” Geist said. “Phenotypic develop ment (the qualities acquired by a group) deteriorated thereafter, fal ling to a low during the Industrial Revolution. tCOOP. A&M HORSE FEED A top quality 13% PROTEIN 10% FIBER HORSE FEED, HORSE AND MULE FEED A FRESH TASTING 10% PROTEIN 9% FIBER HORSE FEED, BALANCED IN MINERALS AND VITAMINS. Made fresh daily to assure you of top quality feed. ALSO HAM CO PHOTOFINISH 16 HORSE FEED He said recovery towards ‘normal’ development may still be in progress” — the growth increases of the recent decades — “but on aver age we are still less well developed than some earlier humans.” Geist said his theory came to him during ecological studies he carried out in Canada’s St. Elias Range which contains some 12,000 square miles of ice within massive glaciers. Contrary to popular belief, he said, glaciers are not hostile to life and at their edges produce conditions highly favorable to large mammals — of which Man is one. He reached the conclusion that Ice Age Man had a hunting diet of animal products only occasionally supplemented with vegetables. “They worked excruciatingly hard to gain tactical hunting skills against a dozen species of very dangerous facest nuclear test suit large mammals, “Confrontation hunting (closing in on prey) demanded superb strategic judgement, great bodily dexterity and skills in using weapons, great courage and un flinching loyalty to the hunting companions. ” United Press International LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Atomic Energy Commission officials gathered shortly after dawn at the Nevada Test Site on Dec. 18, 1970, to conduct an underground nuclear test codenamed “Baneberry. The weapons-related device was one of the series of AEG nuclear tests spanning two decades at the desert facility, about 100 miles north of Las Vegas. Something went wrong. The force of the underground blast tore open a 315-foot-long fissure in the earth’s surface, less than 100 yards from ground zero. 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Baneberry, designed by the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in California, was intended to be a rel atively low-yield explosion, be- The force of the underground blast tore open a 315-foot-long fissure in the earth's surface, less than 100 yards from ground zero. A radioactive cloud emerged. moved to Las Vegas in 1966 where he got a job with Wackenhut Serv ices, Inc. Roberts and a dozen other secu rity guards arrived at the camp at about 8:30 a.m. and ran from trailer to trailer, urging the men to leave. The cloud, he said, engulfed the camp. When the camp finally was evacuated between 9:30 and 10, Roberts was ordered to set up a roadblock at Dead Horse Flats, sev eral miles northwest of the camp. While the other security guards and the camp residents were gathered at a central point several miles south of the camp for a radiation check, Roberts remained at the roadblock until late afternoon when officials ordered him in for decontamination. Test site welder William The charges concern United Pi Ikingstri ousands of f uth, most ban centers nger viewed [nity where tion and drilling; failure to« rtion of the the work camp prior to tlie| f ure to adequately train test sonnel and plan for an ej evacuation; failure to provijfi with protective clothing, j delay in decontaminating Ej Justice Department atti William Elliott and JohnH maintain the accidental B; venting occurred when saturated soil geologic fault Both sides agree that t^B ateS . issue in the case is whet* ^’ s true Baneberry radiation cansi men’s leukemias and deaths. The vast m th jobs in st ries followir :ars to be er Thousands hites, have any others \ rrth just 10 nine now, sa id a better I :onomic bo such The charges concern sil(| tion and drilling; fai\i Nunamaker, 61, who lived in one of evacuate the work cam^ the trailers at the camp during the the test; failure to lieved to be equivalent to less than 20,000 tons of TNT. It was buried in a 910-foot vertical shaft at Yucca Flat in the northeastern part of the 850,000-acre research facility. Frank Cluff, the AEG deputy test manager at NTS and Baneberry project manager, said that when the blast was detonated at 7:30 a.m., scientists at the control point 19 miles south of the blast site “saw the normal shock wave and dust cloud on television monitors linked to re mote cameras focused on ground zero. Three minutes later, a shadow passed across one monitor. Part of a cloud was visible in one corner of the screen. Cluff said he waited for the remote radiation monitor readings and went outside to take a look at the “vertical cloud of dust, Obviously radioactive material. Winds in the area were forecast to blow about four knots to the north and east. As was common practice, security guards swept areas north and east of ground zero to evacuate non-essential personnel. A work camp with 900 men, located 3.5 miles northwest of the Baneberry detonation point, was not evacuated. However, the winds shifted. Be tween 7:38 a.m. and 8 a.m. the light winds gradually turned towards the southeast, then towards the south west and finally, began blowing to wards the camp. Cluff said he or dered an evacuation at 8:05 a.m. One of the guards ordered into the camp was Harley Roberts, 50, a former Indiana truck driver who week, boarded a bus that morning and went to his job in a tunnel oper ation a short distance north of the campsite. A short time after he ar rived at the tunnel, he was ordered to reboard the bus and his crew was evacuated. Roberts and Nunamaker com plained they felt increasingly tired and weak in 1972 and 1973. Both men died of myeloid leukemia in 1974. Their widows filed suit against the U.S. government. The non-jury trial on the widows’ civil suits began in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas on Jan. 16 before Judge Roger Foley. Dorothy Roberts originally sought $3.5 million. That amount train test site personnels for an emergency eiacni failure to provide protective clothing, m delay in decontaminating Roberts. re, leasar. While her: of her sp; which sli leasar talked Ihe was to 1 lustle” of Ne “I don’t mi reed-thin, lorn houseci T was fed ho fled Sou use she “di st of my life An official close to the govern ment's case said the outcome of the trial, expected later this year, could have far-reaching effects in hundreds of claims in volving millions of dollars filed by persons who say they were exposed to fallout from Nevada atmospheric tests in the 1950s and 1960s. Eighty-six persons, ii Roberts and Nunamaker, i* enough radiation exposm Baneberry to require tion. Government records^ into evidence show Rok! ceived approximately one of gamma radiation and Ni was exposed to somewhatle Testifying for the wido» Alice Stewart, a British and epidemiologist, saidli men’s deaths from a ran marrow leukemia was an occurrence. The 71-year-oli tist said the chances of ta given group of 86 men coil myeloid leukemia natural! “three in 10,000.” Dr. Stewart, involved ii radiation studies since Worlo including an examination level radiation effects on workers at Hanford, Wash,, believes low-level radiation) nation regi was reduced to $625,000 shortly be fore the trial’s start. Louise Nunamaker’s request for a $1 mil lion judgment was lowered to $520,000. Larry Johns, the women’s attor ney, alleges the government was guilty of 20 acts of negligence be fore, during and after the Baneberry detonation. is highly improbable that th of two Nevada Test Site m with Arens 1974 from myeloid leukeii have occurred for reasons) radiation,” she testified, testimony was echoed by epidemiologist. Dr. Shields Warren, pf on the otb emeritus at Harvard Uni Medical School and the first of biology and medicine ATTENTION AEG, told the court radiatif interest in vr MSC Town Hall the Baneberry blast was, “ sonable medical certainty cause of Roberts’ leukemia, tiffed he could not be cert# Nunamaker. The government present weeks of defense testimoi COURTS UNIVEAf ^ SHOE SERVI Ani can LON DO pot while g Every hoi tion becaus What is i claim that t Arens of tl Man-Eatiiy Press. “Despite the authoi act as a soc Arens cc he argues, practice. 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