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■ ■ . ■ . • l - ;T ■ life r entap. our 'Ppears mister. nts® ally things iA second test has net little opposition y allied countries. tway, your t not to n. esthat /erdo. owe is the ents mple ) rea- rich .ailed us, if rrd New eisto up our imena tie: sday • October 3, 1993 Page 5 • The Battalion rench government continues nuclear tests PAPEETE, Tahiti (AP) — mboldened by lukewarm re- ction to its second nuclear est in the South Pacific, ranee reaffirmed its commit- jent Monday to press ahead ith more underground blasts. The environmental group ireenpeace called Sunday’s test eneath Fangataufa Atoll in rench Polynesia “an enormous ffront.” Australia and New ealand lodged formal protests ith the French government, nd New Zealand again called in re French ambassador there. But the United States and ther key allies merely ex pressed “regret” at the test, and Britain and Germany reacted with indifference. “I haven’t heard any de mands — I’ve only heard re grets,” Foreign Minister Herve de Charette of France said at a meeting of European foreign ministers in Luxembourg. Premier Alain Juppe said Monday that France will con duct up to six more tests and “be among the first” to sign a global test ban treaty next year. President Jacques Chirac has promised to sign the treaty after the tests, which he contends are safe and neces sary to check France’s nuclear arsenal and develop computer ized simulation tests. The test Sunday was more than five times stronger than the first one, the French De fense Ministry said Monday. The ministry, in a terse state ment, said only that the blast was “less than 110 kilotons.” New Zealand seismologists estimated the blast was about 100 kilotons and produced a shock wave equal to a 5.9 mag nitude earthquake. "It is a wrong call for France politically, and it is irresponsible envi ronmentally." —Jim Bolger New Zealand prime minister The Sept. 5 test on nearby Mu- ruroa Atoll measured less than 20 kilotons, slightly larger than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. The tests are conducted about a half-mile below ground. The latest blast was widely believed to be a test of the TN-75 warhead for France’s new sub marine-launched nuclear missile. The Foreign Ministry repeat ed on Monday that France might shorten the series of tests, now planned to end by June, if it gets enough informa tion from the first few blasts. But environmental groups and the nations of the South Pacific have reacted angrily to the tests, which break a three-year morato rium. The world’s other nuclear powers, except China, have not tested nuclear arms since 1992. “It is a wrong call for France politically, and it is ir responsible environmentally,” said New Zealand’s prime min ister, Jim Bolger. Sunday’s blast also provoked swift condemnation from the prime minister of Australia. 5 help e ^p) - /ed Hit on Stor on, lias ir Trek disap- (0 min- rning. sigh tie ” Dora oner- nakeup, lone it’ Tie lills pH Idreai umps- entarj ilumbus up- A* ioo! 1® cinder- 11* of tie '/eet se Is- [•e than ]d more I U.S. investigates radiation experiments performed on seriously ill patients □ The government has released a report which states that 4,000 subjects may have been secretly injected with radioactive material. WASHINGTON (AP) — There would be little or no benefit in compensating or even notifying most of the people who took part, of ten unknowingly, in some 4,000 radiation ex periments the government sanctioned during the Cold War, a presidential panel says. Concluding the tests posed little long term risk, the advisory panel rejected the idea of widespread efforts to contact or pro vide medical follow-up for survivors among the estimated tens of thousands of subjects. In nearly two years of investigation and a review of more than 100,000 documents, the advisory group found evidence of many tests in which subjects’ consent was lack ing or in doubt. Experiments often were kept under wraps for decades because of fear of bad publicity, the advisory panel said, and in many cases the identity of test subjects re mains unknown. The nearly 1,000-page report, a draft copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press, is to be released by President Clinton on Tuesday at a White House ceremony. Most of the Cold War-era experiments involved adult patients being given low- dose radioactive tracers that “are unlikely to have caused physical harm” or resulted in long-term health concerns, the advisory panel said. “The damage is not physical injury, al though this, too, did occur in some cases, (but) the pain felt by people who believe that they or their loved ones were treated with disrespect,” the report said. Clinton ordered the review in December 1993 after detailed information became public about a series of 1940s experiments spon sored by the Atomic Energy Commission in which 18 seriously ill civilians were injected deliberately with small doses of plutonium to learn more about the effects of radiation. The plutonium case is one of three in which the advisory panel recommended monetary compensation for families of the victims, some of whom lived for many years after the injections. The other two cases the panel said warranted compensation in volved a person who was injected with zirco nium at about the same time as the plutoni um experiments, and an experiment in which individuals were subjected to whole- body radiation, also in the 1940s. These cases involved “deliberate at tempts ... to conceal (the experiments) for the declared purpose of avoiding potential liability and public embarrassment,” the presidential panel said. It called them “as saults on privacy and individual rights.” The identity of those subjected to the zir conium and the whole-body radiation are not known, the panel said. The advisory committee, chaired by Ruth Faden, a bioethicist at Johns Hopkins Uni versity, was less certain about how to deal with some of the other more questionable Cold War-era experiments, various details of which have surfaced in recent years. The committee called many of these ex periments a “dark period in our history” and said there was often little, if any, evidence that proper consent was given by patients. Ml i Forum Continued from Page 1 We want to let people know about this and get them to express their opinions to leg islators.” Kristy Perez, president for gie Democrats, said organi zation members will distribute literature to educate students about the Democratic Party and its platform. Perez said group members have researched individual candidates and learned where they stand on specific issues. Handouts about these candi dates, as well as elected offi cials, will be available. "We will try to give a iet of information on specific issues," ihe said. "We want people to bow what the Democratic Par ty stands for and what Aggie Democrats stands for. We’re hoping we can get people to read and know about the issues that we’ve researched.” Perez said Aggie Democrats has tried to get involved with Political Awareness Day each year because it allows the group to inform students about their political views. Fraud to cost U.S. billions □ New study performed over the last 10 years predicts numerous white collar crimes. AUSTIN (AP) — The government and business es nationwide stand to lose more than $400 billion in 1995 because of occupational fraud and abuse, according to a comprehensive study on white col lar crime released Monday. The study, which includes information gathered over the past 10 years, was released by the Associ ation of Certified Fraud Examiners, an Austin- based private organization that certifies roughly 15,000 fraud examiners in 50 countries. “The estimate of $400 billion is conservative,” said Gilbert Gels, president of the association ami a professor emeritus at the University of California at Irvine, “Executives refuse to believe fraud occurs many times, and they fail to report it because it would result in bad publicity,” Geis said. Buck Revell, regents board chairman of the fraud examiners association and a former FBI in vestigator, called the study one of the most com prehensive and detailed reports ever done on white collar crime. “This is the first report to estimate the costs of fraud by polling experts in the field,” said Revell, who added that the study was done to in crease awareness of fraud in the public and pri vate sector. The most likely perpetrators are white, college- educated males, the study said. The most costly abuses occur in organizations with less than 100 employees and are committed by asset misappro priation, fraudulent financial statements or bribery and corruption, the study said, Scholarships: Houston endowment created Continued from Page 1 Corey Casey, a sophomore elementary education major and an endowment recipient, said without the scholarship she would not have been able to attend A&M. “I’ve always wanted to teach, but money for college was a problem,” Casey said. “My brother went to Texas A&M, and I have always liked the campus and environment, but without the financial aid I probably wouldn’t be here.” Webb-Johnson said the en dowment is beneficial in help ing the situation that the Houston area faces. “It is a community invest ing in students from their own community,” she said. “These students are making a commitment to come back and give back to the Houston school district.” | - ' ; g|tt$83 'VsV' Igjgggg v Agaieland EM 1 Class of ’98 Sophomore pictures are being taken until Oct. 31 for Texas A&M's Aggieland yearbook. Don't miss out on this opportunity to be in the nation's largest yearbook. Pictures are taken 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays at AR Photography 707 Texas Ave. (next to Taco Cabana) Call 693-8183 for information ft I ■? §|jHggg gg v' Mlf Study in Greece, come October 5th and rpe^et/ College Representative from mmm - 2pm in the Main Hallway of the MSC X or from 3 - 4pm in Room 404 Rudder. STUDY ABROAD PROGRAM OFFICE, Texas A A M University, 161 Bizzell Hall West (409) 845-0544 ■ iPS Dixie Theatre Vote Oct. 3 PRO #5 on Ballot 106 S. Main St., 822-0976 Located in Historic Downtown Bryan CARLA Class of ‘99 Secretary I For private parties call Willie at 822-3743 I Happy Hour: Wed. - Sat., 5-8 pm Drink Specials • Music • Pool Tables 18 and older welcome SCHULMAN SIX 2000 E. 29th Street 775-2463 THURSDAY 10/05 Breedlove w/ JFoHnny Goudie Rock $5 FRIDAY 10/06 o cn Rock $5 SATURDAY 10/07 Festifall Finale w/ Jesse Dayton C/W FREE SHOW Aggie Owned and Operated! 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