Tuesday, June 14, 1983/The BattaIion/Page 9
hotographer claims
ladiation ruined health
Warped
by Scott McCullar
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iPPLETON — A former Air
Srce Captain who filmed nuc-
explosions from the open
tloor of a cargo plane says the
gvernment has finally agreed
( tests to determine if radiation
1 juined his health.
■ Beverly Grunert, 67, took
notion and still pictures of 15
nuclear explosions from 1952 to
195' sometimes Hying through
fcfl mushroom clouds from the
ts.
H Since he left the service he
las suffered skin cancer,
Irnhysema, ulcers, aneurysms
jh< blackouts. His weight drop-
faom Y75 pounds to \\0
nds and he had to have most
his stomach removed,
liinert said Sunday that after
uiu
t
15
years
of
frustration and
iso i doors, the government
Snail' has agreed to test him to
eeif radiation is what ruined his
health.
Grunert believes it is.
“Within myself I’m pretty cer
tain, but I can’t get anybody to
confirm it,” Grunert said in a
telephone interview. Veterans
Administration hospitals turned
him away, and private physi
cians said they were unable to
link his maladies to radiation.
“They said they didn’t have
enough data at the time to link it
to radiation,” Grunert said. “We
always question and they always
say they don’t have enough data
on it.”
The government has been no
help, he said. His doctors have
written the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission. His wife wrote the
surgeon general.
“Their letters came back
saying there was no record of
anything happening from expo
sure,” Grunert said.
Grunert said he and others
took pictures through the open
door of a cargo plane and were
given nothing by the Air Force
to guard against radiation.
He said that in 50 percent of
his missions they flew through
the mushroom cloud.
“The only thing they gave us
was a white garment — almost
like a Ku Klux Klan uniform —
to reflect off the heat,” Grunert
said. “But we never got the heat
up that high.”
Grunert said in a test known
as Operation Castle at Eniwetok
in the Marshall Islands, there
was a miscalculation of the blast
and the plane rocked as it was
engulfed in the mushroom
cloud.
Three months later, at the age
of 39, his dark brown hair
turned white, he said.
He said he was given little
warning of the dangers of radia
tion by his superiors.
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Nuclear protests planned
Body found in stream
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pen tilled as producer
actice,
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|0S ANGELES — A decom-
Rd corpse found in a forest
Bam bed has been identified
|ariety show producer Roy
ander Radin, who dis-
ared a month ago while
pging a multimillion dollar
to finance a new film studio.
Working with dental records
n in Sunday from New
'ork, the coroner’s office deter-
Bed positively that the gun-
axy, he sB victim listed as John Doe
chances lo.94 was that of the Radin, 33.
it anycuBhe body was found last Fri-
t up. "fly by a forest ranger and a
1 bekeeper in the Angeles Wa
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chances as
tional Forest near Gorman, just
off Interstate 5 about 65 miles
north of Los Angeles. An auto
psy showed Radin died of a sing
le gunshot wound.
Radin disappeared May 13
while en route to a dinner meet
ing in Beverly Hills. He was re
ported missing four days later
by his secretary, Jonathan
Lawson.
John O’Grady, a Hollywood
private investigator hired by
Radio’s mother to find the mis
sing man, said the family is in
shock and was in seclusion in
Cleveland.
O’Grady said Radin was in
Los Angeles to find $35 million
in backing for a new film studio
and was reluctant to go to the
dinner meeting.
The detective said Radin
postponed the meeting once in
attempts to find a restaurant
with tight security measures.
Radin was last seen leaving the
Plaza Suite Hotel in Hollywood
in a limousine with a woman not
identified by police.
Radin never arrived at the re
staurant. The woman told police
they quarreled in the car. She
said Radin got out on Sunset
Boulevard and was not seen
again.
United Press International
The Mobilization for Survival
and other groups opposed to
nuclear weapons plan a new
round of protests in the United
States and Europe focusing on
first-strike weapons.
Organizers said Sunday the
protests would be held in at least
50 American cities in 30 states
during Father’s Day weekend,
but one official warned that pro
testers will not be allowed to de
monstrate at the nation’s de
fense facilities.
“We recognize these demon
strators have a constitutional
right to be heard. That’s one
reason we’re here — to protect
that right,” said Col. Gary H.
Mears, commander of Kirtland
Air Force Base in Albuquerque,
N.M. “However, we can’t allow
any political activity or demon
stration to take place on Kirt
land, and at the time of the plan
ned demonstration Kirtland Air
Force Base will take whatever
security measures are approp
riate.”
Several nuclear weapons faci
lities are based at Kirtland, in
cluding Sandia Laboratories.
Mears did not specify what mea
sures might be taken to keep
protesters away.
Protests were also planned in
Europe, where the Defense De
partment intends to deploy Per-
shing-2 weapons this fall.
The Mobilization for Survival
said demonstrations would be
held J une 20 — the Internation
al Day of Nuclear Disarmament
— in Austria, England, Ger
many and France. In the United
States, demonstrations were
planned for Chicago; Min
neapolis; Omaha, Neb.; Salt
Lake City; Albany, N.Y.; Gro
ton, Conn.; Orlando, Fla., and
dozens of other cities.
In Los Angeles, the Santa
Monica-Venice Alliance for Sur
vival said the group would hold
a Father’s Day peace rally next
Sunday at the West Los Angeles
Federal Building during which
demonstrators would sign a
Father’s Day card for Dr. Ed
ward Teller, “father of the hyd
rogen bomb.”
The protests center on a new
generation of weapons with a
first-strike capability, a Mobili
zation for Survival spokesman
said. The spokesman identified
four weapons systems as having
first-strike abilities: the MX mis
sile, the cruise missile, the Per-
shing-2 missile and the Trident
submarine.
Baptists to debate school prayer
\utralian talks with Reagan
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1011 M ■ ASHINGTON ~ President
iuetoDeac*g an we i come( j Australian
nt j| son rinit Minister Robert Hawke to
when its! White House Monday for
N .jetted: 5 intended to reaffirm
ng ties between their nations
I stress convergent view-
its on economic and security
icerns.
t Hawke and Reagan, during
[hours of meetings that in-
ied a working lunch, were
(ected to concentrate on
as of general agreement that
S Kt to what one senior U.S.
pial called the solid relation-
[between the two nations.
Xhe two leaders posed briefly
that C# photographers in the sun-
iched Rose Garden, as tem-
itures soared toward the 90-
ree mark.
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already rtf HOUSTON — The dead
pes of a man and woman,
jarently killed with a pickaxe
icdded in the woman’s chest,
untains erc found early Monday in
icomes ^ e '' northwest Houston apart-
$109,400'H 11 ’ police said.
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lay have been ransacked, but
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PITTSBURGH — Voluntary
school prayer will be a key issue
at the national meeting of the
Southern Baptist Convention
this week, church leaders say.
Some pastors say the conven
tion may try to repeal a resolu
tion supporting a constitutional
amendment that would allow
voluntary prayer in public
schools.
Opponents of the resolution,
approved in the New Orleans
convention last year, claim it
takes away religious liberty.
But the Rev. Jimmy Draper,
convention president, predicted
Sunday a calm meeting this
week in Pittsburgh, in contrast
to the stormy sessions of recent
years.
Church leaders hope the
17,000 messengers — what the
Baptists call their convention de
legates who represent over 13
million churchgoers — will
avoid the heated battles of past
meetings between conservative
and moderate factions over bib
lical authority.
The conseratives believe in
literal interpretation of the Bible
which they deem infallible.
Moderates say the Bible is sub
ject to interpretation.
“We realize we still have some
tremendous theological ques
tions,” said Draper, fundamen
talist leader of the 7,000-
member First Baptist Church of
Euless, just outside Dallas.
“But I think there has been
an easing of the tensions,” he
said.
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partment'
ie present
of the T
tension in recent years, potential
sore points were expected to be
ignored during discussions in
tended to underscore friend
ship between allies.
Hawke and his Labor Party
emerged victorious from na
tional elections in March that
ousted Prime Minister Malcolm
Fraser.
The approach he used was
not unlike the one used by
Reagan in 1980, promising poli
cies that he said would provide
the best basis for his people to
work together to come out of the
depths of a serious recession.
Hawke also is a strong sup
porter of Israel. The agenda of
his meeting with Reagan in
cluded the situation in the Mid
dle East and such other foreign
policy issues as East-West rela
tions and arms control.
In the background lie con
cerns about competing trade in
terests, relations with Vietnam
and an unsettling controversy
over U.S. intelligence activities
in Australia. Most are likely to be
ignored or papered over.
Australia has a trade deficit of
several billion dollars in its eco
nomic relations with the United
States and is said to object to
some of the countermeasures
taken by the U.S. government in
response to protectionist poli
cies by other countries.
In foreign policy, the Austra
lian Labor Party platform prop
oses resumption of aid to Viet
nam. The Reagan administra
tion believes that such a step to
ward normalization should not
be taken until Vietnam is willing
to moderate its behavior in
Kampuchea, formerly Cam
bodia.
Landing gear light
alarms pilot, crew
United Press International
KANSAS CITY, Mo. —
Emergency equipment was put
on standby status early Monday
for an Ozark DC-9 flight en
route from Las Vegas to Kansas
City International Airport, but
the plane landed safely, author
ities said.
Ron Cop, regional duty offic
er with the Federal Aviation
Administration, said the crew of
Flight 601 initially thought that
a tire blew out on takeoff from
Las Vegas.
Chuck Ehlert, director of
public affairs for Ozark Air
Lines in St. Louis, said the plane
carrying 96 passengers on take
off from Las Vegas apparently
threw rubber off a tire when it
struck a switch in a wheel well.
When the crew attempted to
lower the landing gear on
approach to Kansas City Inter
national their controls indicated
that the landing gear was not in
place, although it was safe for
landing, Ehler said.
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