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State & Local rubi Page 2 The Battalion Friday, February Judge OKs settlement in border patrol case The Associated Press EL PASO — A federal judge Thursday ap proved a class-action lawsuit settlement agree ment that stipulates U.S. Border Patrol agents cannot detain or arrest people simply because they look Hispanic. U.S. District Judge Lucius Bunton said the deal was a fair resolution of the lawsuit filed by students and employees at predominantly Hispanic Bowie High School who say agents assaulted and abused them. The settlement is "the best thing for the people in the Bowie area," said Bunton. "I think it's the best thing for the people who serve this country in the U.S. Border Patrol." Parties on both sides of the dispute agreed. "We're pleased to have had this opportuni ty to put this issue behind us," said Chief Agent Silvestre Reyes, the head of the Border Patrol's El Paso Sector, which covers part of West Texas and all of New Mexico. "It's been a situation that's been difficult not just for the Border Patrol and the Immigra tion Service ... but for the community as a whole," said Reyes, who was not the chief agent when the suit was filed. Bowie High Principal Paul Strelzin, who was not a plaintiff, indicated he was pleased. He also praised Reyes for changing the agency's attitude after taking over the sector last July. "This man has done a great job," said Strelzin, whose school is just yards from the Mexican border. In the settlement, the sector agreed to main tain a policy barring agents from questioning or detaining someone without having a "rea sonable suspicion, based on specific ... facts" that the person is either an illegal immigrant or has violated U.S. immigration laws. This stipulation does not apply to agency checkpoints or other locations where reason able suspicion is not required by law. The sector will also enforce a policy that agents cannot arrest anyone on immigration charges unless they have probable cause to be lieve that person is an illegal immigrant or has violated the laws. Reyes said the stipulations don't change ex isting agency policy. "It's just a reaffirmation that we're going to follow our procedures," he said. The stipulations also reinforce a December 1992 order by Bunton, who told the agency in a preliminary ruling in the lawsuit to stop questioning people because they appear to be Hispanic. In that same decision, Bunton also found that the agency's procedures for reporting and investigating abuse allegations are question able. The agreement addresses that by requiring the sector to maintain an existing bilingual toll-free complaint hotline; mail acknowledg ments to people who have submitted com plaints; and file a quarterly report with the court for five years summarizing the number and types of complaints received. Space center funded human radiation experiments The Associated Press HOUSTON — Two human ra diation experiments, conducted more than two decades ago, were funded by the Johnson Space Cen ter, The Houston Post reported Thursday in a copyright story. The newspaper said a NASA review uncovered the studies, one in 1963 and the other in 1974. NASA said the studies were both with patient consent, and neither used any more radiation than a typical X-ray. But The Post said a man who participated in the 1963 study has called a government hotline to say he has leukemia, a cancer of the blood. NASA officials said they have received no information on the man and do not know his identity. Johnson Space Center officials on Thursday did not immediately return a phone call made by The Associated Press. A doctor who helped conduct the study said he doubted the tiny doses of radiation the man re ceived during the experiment could have caused the illness. The man is among more than 18,000 callers to a Department of Energy national 800 number in the seven weeks since it was estab lished. Following press reports on government testing on unwitting civilians and soldiers, the White House ordered reviews in several agencies of what testing might have been done. The 1963 study was conducted on seven University of Houston students at the Texas Institute for Rehabilitation and Research. The students, identified only by their initials, were made to lie in bed for two weeks — the best Earth- bound simulation of space flight weightlessness. Among the procedures was an injection of a radioactive isotope Learn to SCUBA Dive! aradise 6et Certified For SPRING BREAK! . NAIH & PAD! Classet cuba 696-DIVE Classes Starting March 4th We are MOVING to the Kroger Shopping Center March 14.... INDOOR POOL! MSC Barber Shop Serving All Aggies! Cuts and Styles Reg. haircuts starting at $6. 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Nelp, now director of the Depart ment of Nuclear Medicine at the University of Washington, that used 16 older Washington state women already involved in bone decay studies. "These were little old ladies probably getting about 2 percent of what an astronaut would get on an ordinary space flight. About what you'd get on an airline flight from Houston to Seattle," Nelp said. Nelp devised a method where patients' bone mass, was mea sured by the argon they exhaled after standing in a tank exposed to a small radiation dose. By performing such a proce dure before and after space flight, NASA could determine bone loss in astronauts — a known prob lem, Nelp said. Nelp and co-researchers won a NASA award for their work, but it was never used. Current thinking concentrates on specific areas of bone loss in astronauts rather than whole-body calcium counts. Light dosage X-rays are used. 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