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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
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in one arm and blood withdrawal
from the other arm to measure
plasma volume, performed on 10
different days.
"That should be no concern,"
said Carlos Vallbona, who helped
coordinate the study and is now
chairman of the Department of
Community Medicine at Baylor
College of Medicine.
Similar procedures are con
ducted "thousands of times" to
day by doctors for a variety of rea
sons, he said.
Vallbona said he was surprised
the study would be included in
the Johnson Space Center report.
The space center sponsored a
study in 1974 and 1975 by Wil B.
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.
Lawrence Dietlein, JSC assis
tant director for life sciences, said
he expects the Energy Department
hotline will forward any informa
tion from the man with leukemia.
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